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)

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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.

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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