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Sturnella sp. nov. 'Bahamas'

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Sturnella undescribed species (Tyrberg, 2009:102)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Bahamas

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Milberg, Per and Tyrberg, Tommy. (1993). Naïve birds and noble savages - a review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds. Ecography 16: 229-250.

Olson SL and Hilgartner WB (1982) Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 48, 22–56.

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]

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 A (1937) Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80, 427–441.

 

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