Falco kurochkini Suárez & Olson, 2001:35

Cuban kestrel, Cuban falcon, Halcón Cubano

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: "Quaternary, probably Pleistocene but not directly dated" (Suárez & Olson, 2001:35)

Distribution

Cuba

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: MNHNCu P3229 (ex WS 1054) / MNHNCu-75.003229 ("complete left tarsometatarsus")

Type locality:

"Cuba, La Habana province, municipality of Caimito, Llanura Meridional Habanera, about 4 km south of the town of Vereda Nueva, "Cueva de Sandoval," in a small sink within the cave known as "El Sumidero"" (Suárez & Olson, 2001:35)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2001). A remarkable new species of small falcon from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Falconidae: Falco). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114(1): 34-41.

Other references:

Herrera-Uria, Jane et al. (2015). Type specimens housed in the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba. Solenodon 12: 84-123.

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

Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]

Orihuela, Johanset. (2019). An annotated list of late Quaternary extinct birds of Cuba. Ornitología Neotropical 30: 57-67.

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)]

Suárez W (2004) The enigmatic snipe Capella sp. (Aves: Scolopacidae) in the fossil record of Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 40, 155–157.

Suárez, William. (2022). Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(1): 10-74. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3

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.

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