The "walking eagle" Wetmoregyps daggetti miller: A scaled-up version of the Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)

Ornithological Monographs

Volumn 63, Issue , 2007, Pages 110-114

  Olson, Storrs L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTEOGALLUS; BUTEOGALLUS MERIDIONALIS; MAMMALIA; SAGITTARIUS SERPENTARIUS;

EID: 77749341903     PISSN: 00786594     EISSN: 19412282     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1642/0078-6594(2007)63[110:TWEWDM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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