Bermuda Flicker
The Bermuda flicker (''Colaptes oceanicus'') is an extinct woodpecker from the genus '' Colaptes''. It was confined to Bermuda and is known only by fossil remains dated to the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene. However, an old travel report by explorer Captain John Smith from the 17th century may also refer to this species. Extinction Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry and the Walsingham Sink Cave in Hamilton Parish in Bermuda in 1981, there is one bone, a tarsometatarsus from a juvenile, which is from a Holocene layer in Spittal Pond. This fact, and an old travel report by Captain John Smith from 1623, may give evidence to the possibility that this species just may have persisted until at least the early colonization of Bermuda. Smith wrote: References Bermuda flicker Birds of Bermuda Extinct animals of North America Bird extinctions since 1500 Fos ...
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Storrs L
Storrs may refer to: * Storrs (surname) * Storrs, Connecticut, a village where the main campus of the University of Connecticut is located * Storrs, South Yorkshire, a rural hamlet within the City of Sheffield, England * Storrs, Cumbria See also * Storrs Hall, a listed building in Cumbria, England * Yealand Storrs Yealand Storrs is a hamlet in the English county of Lancashire. Geography Yealand Storrs is north of Lancaster near the border with Cumbria, it is in the civil parish of Yealand Redmayne, in the City of Lancaster district. Gallery File ..., a hamlet in the English county of Lancashire * Storr {{disambiguation, geo ...
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