Haliastur indus

Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- brahminy kitePBDB
- Sits inside
- HaliasturPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Accipitridae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Accipitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Accipitridae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Haliastur indus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
8 occurrences- Pleistocene97%
- Holocene3%
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.
Haliastur indus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Haliastur indus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Macheiramphus alcinus3 sites
- Spizaetus3 sites
- Collocalia esculenta2 sites
- Tyto2 sites
- Accipiter1 site
- Accipiter novaehollandiae1 site
- Accipiter trivirgatus1 site
- Alcedo atthis1 site
- Alopecoenas beccarii1 site
- Amaurornis olivacea1 site
- Anatidae1 site
- Apodidae1 site
- Cacatua1 site
- Caloenas nicobarica1 site
- Centropus1 site
- Charmosyna1 site
- Columba1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Corvus1 site
- Cuculidae1 site
- Ducula1 site
- Gallinago1 site
- Gallirallus1 site
- Gallirallus philippensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Haliastur indus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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
3 references- Raptor and owl bone from Niah Caves, Sarawak: identifications and morphological variation in the humerus and tarsometatarsus of selected raptors5
- Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)2
- Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: extinctions on a large Melanesian island1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Haliastur indus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Tisha Mukherjee
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Haliastur indus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHaliastur through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Boddaert 1783)