moorei is estimated to have diverged from these smaller eagles as recently as 1.8 million to 700,000 years ago. Harpagornis moorei was therefore reclassified as Hieraaetus moorei. ĭNA analysis later showed that this bird is related most closely to the much smaller little eagle as well as the booted eagle and not, as previously thought, to the large wedge-tailed eagle. The genus name was from the Greek harpax, meaning "grappling hook", and ornis, meaning "bird". Haast named the eagle Harpagornis moorei after George Henry Moore, the owner of the Glenmark Estate, where the bones of the bird had been found. Haast's eagle was first described by Julius von Haast in 1871 from remains discovered by the Canterbury Museum taxidermist, Frederick Richardson Fuller, in a former marsh.
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