Milvago alexandri Olson, 1976:356

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene (Holocene?)

Distribution

Haiti, Hispaniola

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

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.

Other references:

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.

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