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Caracara sp. nov. 'Bahamas'

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene (Steadman & Franklin, 2020:Table 3)

 

Distribution

Long Island & Middle Caicos, Bahamas

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Olson, S.L. (2008) Journal of Raptor Research, 42, 265–272.

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)]

Steadman, David W. and Franklin, Janet. (2020). Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.2013368117 [Supplementary Information]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/25844/caracara-sp-nov-bahamas

 

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