Falco duboisi
The Réunion kestrel is an extinct bird of prey which belongs to the falcon family. It was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion and was part of the Western Indian Ocean radiation of kestrels.
No picture of Falco duboisi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Falco duboisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Réunion kestrelPBDB
- Sits inside
- FalcoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Falconidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Falconidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Falconidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Falco duboisi on record, most of them in the Holocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Falco duboisi and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Falco duboisi and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Alopochen kervazoi3 sites
- Ardenna pacifica3 sites
- Puffinus lherminieri3 sites
- Fulica newtonii2 sites
- Mascarinus mascarin2 sites
- Nesoenas duboisi2 sites
- Nycticorax duboisi2 sites
- Otus grucheti2 sites
- Phaethon lepturus2 sites
- Threskiornis solitarius2 sites
- Fregilupus varius1 site
- Numenius phaeopus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Falco duboisi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- A new genus, three new species and two new records of extinct Holocene birds from Réunion Island, Indian Ocean2
- The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Falco duboisi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Falco duboisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Falco duboisi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFalco through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cowles 1994