Malagasy crowned eagle

Malagasy crowned eagle; Temporal range: Holocene
Conservation status
	Extinct (1500)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Stephanoaetus
Species:	†S. mahery
Binomial name
	†Stephanoaetus mahery; Goodman, 1994

The Malagasy crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery),^[1] also known as the Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle, is an extinct large bird of prey endemic to Madagascar.

It has been proposed that this bird, combined with elephant bird eggs, were the source of sightings of the mythical Roc.^[2]

^ Goodman, Steven M. (1994). "Description of a new species of subfossil eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus (Aves: Falconiformes) from the deposits of Ampasambazimba". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (107): 421–428.
^ Hume, Julian P.; Walters, Michael (2012). Extinct birds. Vol. 217. A & C Black (Poyser Imprint). pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1.

[1] Goodman, Steven M. (1994). "Description of a new species of subfossil eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus (Aves: Falconiformes) from the deposits of Ampasambazimba". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (107): 421–428.

[2] Hume, Julian P.; Walters, Michael (2012). Extinct birds. Vol. 217. A & C Black (Poyser Imprint). pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1.

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