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Bermuda flicker : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bermuda flicker
The Bermuda flicker (''Colaptes oceanicus'') is an extinct woodpecker from the genus ''Colaptes''. It was confined to Bermuda and is only known by fossil remains dated to the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene. An old travel report by explorer Captain John Smith from the 17th century might also refer to that species. ==Extinction== Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in the Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry, and in 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 the Spittal Pond. This fact and an old travel report by John Smith from 1623 might lead to the assumption that this species might have persisted until the early colonisation of Bermuda. John Smith wrote:
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