- Source: Cuban pauraque
The Cuban pauraque (Siphonorhis daiquiri), also known as the Cuban poorwill, is an extinct species of nightjar from the island of Cuba in the Caribbean.
History
It was described by Storrs Olson in 1985 from subfossil material he collected in 1980 from a hillside cave overlooking the village, and former historic port, of Daiquirí, about 20 km east of the city of Santiago de Cuba. The specific epithet refers to the type locality.
Description
The species was intermediate in size between its two known congeners, being larger than S. brewsteri of Hispaniola and smaller than S. americana of Jamaica. Olson considered that the cave deposits of the pauraque and other contemporary fauna were the prey of barn owls and were of Holocene age. Because of the cryptic nature of pauraques and other nightjars, Olson considered it possible that the species might not be extinct, though there have been no confirmed records of living birds.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Cuban pauraque
- List of extinct bird species since 1500
- Siphonorhis
- List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
- Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene
- List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of bird extinctions by year
- List of endemic birds of the West Indies
- List of birds of North America
- List of nightjars
