Avian fossils give us a unique opportunity to assess changes through time in species
diversity and distributions. We report a previously unstudied collection of∼ 500 bird fossils …

Comparing distributional information derived from fossils with the modern distribution of
species, we summarize the changing bird communities of the Bahamian Archipelago across …

Up to the present, three papers have dealt with significant fossil and subfossil avifaunas from
the Bahamas. Pleistocene birds were reported by Wetmore (1937b) from Little Exuma, and …

We provide an update to the fossil avifauna of San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands based on
the identification of 3509 small bird bones recovered from fossil sites on Santa Rosa and …

One hundred and twenty-five species of birds are recorded living in the Exumas, 50 for the
first time; 11 others are known only as fossils. Records of 14 other species are considered …

Overview 954[Auk, Vol. 120 islands of Hawaii, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Oahu, and Kauai
(Olson and James 1982b, 1991; James and Olson 1991, 2003; Burney et al. 2001). The …

Overview 1050[Auk, Vol. 122 deposits of Frauenwiler, Germany, the same locality where the
fossil hummingbird was found. The new taxon is known from a single associated skeleton …

We report Quaternary vertebrate and plant fossils from Sawmill Sink, a “blue hole”(a water-
filled sinkhole) on Great Abaco Island, The Bahamas. The fossils are well preserved …

Aim To establish a chronology for late Quaternary avian extinction, extirpation and
persistence in the Bahamas, thereby testing the relative roles of climate change and human …

Fossils of Hawaiian birds reveal at least eight additional avian colonizations of the
archipelago, and about 45 additional species of resident birds, thereby raising the number of …