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DNA suggests extinct NZ Eagle [largest raptor recorded]

To: "Gemfyre" <>
Subject: DNA suggests extinct NZ Eagle [largest raptor recorded]
From: "Philip A. Veerman" <>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:05:35 +1100
Well yes you are right, the largest raptors are the condors (although there is evidence that the condors and American vultures are probably closer related to storks than hawks).
 
That is in the phrase of living raptors. So the extinct NZ Eagle or other extinct species are not considered in that comparison that states that the largest raptors are the condors.
 
Is the extinct NZ Eagle bigger than the Teratornis incredibilis from the Pleistocene in USA? It was said to have a wingspan of up to 17 feet (Feduccia 1980, The Age of Birds)
 
Philip
-----Original Message----- From: Gemfyre <> To: knightl <>; Birding Aus <>
Date: Wednesday, 5 January 2005 20:13
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] DNA suggests extinct NZ Eagle [largest raptor recorded] closely related to Oz Little Eagle [world's smallest eagle]

I always thought the largest raptor was one of the condors.  But maybe
that's just largest wingspan wise
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