Northern Birds from a Florida Indian Midden

Hamon, J.

doi:10.2307/4082329

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“…The Great Auk was the second most common avian taxon identified at DCP. Bones of P. impennis have been recovered from at least five late Holocene archeological sites on the Atlantic coast of Florida: Cotton midden, Volusia County (Hay, 1902); the Castle Windy site, Volusia County (Weigel, 1958); Green Mound midden, Volusia County (Hamon, 1959); Summer Haven midden, St. Johns County (Brodkorb, 1960); and Boca Weir, Palm Beach County (Fradkin, 1980). While a fossil specimen has also been reported from the middle Pleistocene of Bermuda (Olson, 2003), the specimens from DCP are the first Pleistocene fossils of P. impennis from Florida.…”

Section: Order Charadriiformes Family Alcidae Genusmentioning

confidence: 99%

A middle Pleistocene bird community from Saint Lucie County, Florida

Kilmer,

Steadman

2016

FLMNH

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Dickerson Coquina Pit (DCP) is a sand and coquina mine located in Saint Lucie County, Florida, 16 km inland from the Atlantic Ocean. Collections were made from a middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian Land Mammal Age) vertebrate fossil bed in the Okeechobee Formation at DCP from 2002 until the pit was flooded in 2008. Vertebrate fossils from DCP also were discovered in fill material used in beach replenishment on North Hutchinson Island, St. Lucie County. The avifauna of DCP is based on 65 fossil elements representing 12 orders, 16 families, and 26 species, with habitat preferences ranging from woodlands and prairies to fresh water and estuarine wetlands to the open ocean. Extinct or extralocal species include a transitional Wild Turkey Meleagris cf. M. gallopavo, transitional Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria cf. P. albatrus, a large stork Ciconia maltha, a large crane Grus sp., Great Auk Pinguinus impennis, and Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis. The taphonomy and paleoecology of the Dickerson Coquina Pit generally resemble those of other shell beds in Central and South Florida, such as the Irvingtonian Leisey Shell Pit of Hillsborough County. The avifauna from DCP is distinctive, however, in featuring Florida’s first Pleistocene records of four marine species (Short-tailed Albatross, Northern Gannet Morus bassanus, Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo, and Great Auk) and the Carolina Parakeet.

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Section: Order Charadriiformes Family Alcidae Genusmentioning

confidence: 99%

A middle Pleistocene bird community from Saint Lucie County, Florida

Kilmer,

Steadman

2016

FLMNH

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“…Two articles dealt with hybrid swallows (Barn [Hirundo rustica] ϫ Cliff [Petrochelidon pyrrhonota], 18:73-74; and Cliff ϫ Tree [Tachycineta bicolor], 18:392-394) and one with a bone of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) found in a shell midden in . Even the author, O. P. Hay, doubted that Great Auks actually occurred as far south as Florida with any regularity, but subsequently bones of more northern marine species, including Great Auks, were found in Florida, dated to about 1,000 and 3,000 years ago (Weigel 1958, Hamon 1959, Brodkorb 1960. In a final little spin to those findings, Brodkorb (1960) speculated that it must have been cooler in Florida during those two periods, allowing northern species to range further south.…”

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confidence: 99%