Ardea bennuides Hoch, 1979
Bennu heron, Giant heron
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 2,500 BC (Tyrberg, 2009)
Distribution & Habitat
Umm al-Nar island, United Arab Emirates
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hoch, Ella. (1977). Reflections on prehistoric life at Umm An-Nar (Trucial Oman) based on faunal remains from the third millennium B.C., pp. 589-638. In M. Taddei (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 1977. Fourth International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe
Other references:
Bühler, Markus. (2008). War Ardea bennuides der Totenvogel Benu? Der Kryptozoologie-Report 5: 17-18.
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Hoch, Ella. (1995). Animal bones from the Umm an-Nar Settlement. The Island of Umm an-Nar. Vol. II: Third Millenium Settlement. K. Frifelt. Aarhus, Jutland Archaeological Society Publications. 26 (2): 249-256.
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
Potts, D. (1997). Before the emirates: an archaeological and historical account of developments in the region c. 5000 BC to 676 AD, pp. 36-73. In: Ghareeb, E. and Al Abed, I. (eds.). Perspectives on the United Arab Emirates. London: Trident Press.
Potts, D. T. (2001). Before the Emirates: An archaeological and historical account of developments in the region ca 5000 BC to 676 AD, pp. 28-69. In E. Ghareeb & I. Al Abed (Eds.), Perspectives on the United Arab Emirates. London: Trident Press.
Shuker, Karl. (1995). In Search of Prehistoric Survivors. London: Blandford. [pp. 73-74]
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.
http://worldcyclopedia.org/Bennu+Bird
http://bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net/artikel/war-ardea-bennuides-der-totenvogel-benu/
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