A 10 500-Year Sequence of Bird Remains from the Southern Boreal Forest Region of Western Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Driver, Jonathan C., Hobson, Keith A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal migration; Archaeology; Birds; Bones; Ducks; Geomorphology; Grebes; Palaeoecology; Palynology; Recent epoch; Stratigraphy; Taiga ecology; Peace River region; Alberta/British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada; Arctic; Peace River; taiga
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64434

The prehistoric avian fauna from the Charlie Lake Cave site, Peace River District, British Columbia, spans the last 10,500 years and includes birds from eleven orders. Prior to about 10,000 B.P. the fauna is sparse and the most common species is Cliff Swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota), which probably nes...