Caracara latebrosus Wetmore, 1920:77

Puerto Rican caracara

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Polyborus latebrosus Wetmore, 1920:77

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Puerto Rico, West Indies

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Wetmore, Alexander. (1920). Five new species of birds from cave deposits in Porto Rico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 33: 77-82.

Other references:

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Olson, Storrs L. (1976). A New Species of Milvago from Hispaniola, with Notes on Other Fossil Caracaras from the West Indies (Aves: Falconidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 88(33): 355-366.

Olson, Storrs L. and Hillgartner, W. B. (1982). Fossil and subfossil from the Bahamas, pp. 22-56. In: Olson, Storrs L. (ed.). Fossil vertebrates from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Palaeobiology 48: 1-65.

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Wetmore, Alexander. (1922). Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 46: 297-333.

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