A Late Pleistocene Bird Community at the Northern Edge of the Tropics in Sonora, Mexico

• Published in: The American Midland Naturalist
• Main Authors: Steadman, David W., Mead, Jim I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2010
• Subjects: Canada; Marsh lake; Branta canadensis; Canada Goose
• Online Access: https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/16668; https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-163.2.423

Recently collected fossils from the late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age) locality at Trapa, Sonora, Mxico, represent 31 species of non-passerine birds. Twenty-three of the species (74) are aquatic (grebes, pelican, cormorant, herons, ibis, stork, geese, ducks, rails), refl...