Tyto pollens Wetmore, 1937:436
Andros Island barn owl, Bahamian barn owl, Bahaman barn owl, Bahamian great owl, Lechuza Gigante de las Bahamas, Chickcharney/Chickcharnie (cryptid)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tyto riveroi Arredondo, 1972:131
According to (Suárez & Olson, 2015) T. riveroi is a synonym of this species.
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene (1500's?)
Distribution
Little Exuma and New Providence, Bahamas & Cuba (as [i]T. riveroi[/i])
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
MCZ 2262 and 2263
USNM 283287 and 283288
PB 9077
UF 3195 to 3199, 25646 to 25647, and 25656
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wetmore, Alexander. (1937). Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 80(12): 427-441.
Other references:
Arredondo, Oscar. (1972). Especie Nueva de Lechuza Gigante (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno Cubano. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana Ciencias Naturales 30: 129-140.
Arredondo, Oscar. (1982). Los Strigiformes fosiles del Pleistoceno Cubano. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 37: 33-55.
Brodkorb, Pierce. (1959). Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 4(11): 349-371.
Marcot, Bruce G. (1995). Owls of old forests of the world. General Technical Reports. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Olson, Storrs L. and Hilgartner, William B. (1982). Fossil and Subfossil Birds from the Bahamas, pp. 22-56. In: Olson, Storrs L. (ed). Fossil vertebrates from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Palaeobiology, No. 48: 1-68.
Orihuela, Johanset. (2019). An annotated list of late Quaternary extinct birds of Cuba. Ornitología Neotropical 30: 57-67.
Oswald, Jessica A. and Steadman, David W. (2018). The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas. The Auk 135(2): 359-377. [Abstract]
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)]
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]
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
Suárez, William and Olson, Storrs L. (2015). Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae). Zootaxa 4020(3): 533-553.
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, Alexander. (1937). Bird Remains from Cave Deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 80(12): 427-441.