Late Pleistocene birds from Binagada, Azerbaijan (1 Viewer)

[Fred Ruhe]

Leonid V. Gorobets & V. O. Yanenko, 2018

LATE PLEISTOCENE BIRDS FROM BINAGADA (AZERBAIJAN) IN COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (KYIV, UKRAINE)

Vestnik Zoologii, 52(1): 31–36, 2018
DOI 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0004

Abstract and free pdf: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/vzoo/52/1/article-p31.xml

Bird fossils from the Late Pleistocene locality Binagada, deposited kept in the National Museum of Natural History in Kyiv (Ukraine), are described in this paper. Twenty six bird species are identified, including five (Little Stint, Great snipe, Jack snipe, White-winged lark and Rosy Starling) which have not been previously known from this locality. The validity of extinct species Calidris binagadensis (Serebrovsky, 1940) is confirmed and the invalidity of subspecies Anas platyrhynchos paleoboschas Serebrovsky, 1940 is shown. The finding of Rosy Starling fossils in Transcaucasian region confirms the range reduction of this species at the end of Pleistocene.

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Fred

 

[Fred Ruhe]

Interesting to know, the avifauna of Binagada was studied by Professor Nikolay Iosifovich Burchak-Abramovich (26th September 1900 - 25th October 1997) for many years and he had a large collection of bones from that site. Unfortunately this large collection was lost when he died. See Boev, 2010, (attached).

Fred