Urodynamis taitensis
The long-tailed koel, also known as the long-tailed cuckoo, Pacific long-tailed cuckoo, sparrow hawk, home owl, screecher, screamer or koekoeā in Māori, is a species of the Cuculidae bird family. It is the only species placed in the genus Urodynamis. It is a migratory bird that spends spring and summer in New Zealand, its only breeding place, and spends winter in the Pacific islands. It is a brood parasite, laying its eggs in the nests of other bird species and leaving them to raise its chicks.
Peter Hancock (peterhancock) · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- long-tailed koelPBDB
- Sits inside
- UrodynamisPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Cuculidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Cuculidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Cuculidae
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.
11 occurrences of Urodynamis taitensis on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
11 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.
Urodynamis taitensis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Urodynamis taitensis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Gallus gallus7 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis5 sites
- Anous stolidus4 sites
- Ninox novaeseelandiae4 sites
- Porphyrio porphyrio4 sites
- Accipiter efficax3 sites
- Collocalia esculenta3 sites
- Columba vitiensis3 sites
- Fregata minor3 sites
- Gallirallus lafresnayanus3 sites
- Gallirallus philippensis3 sites
- Passeriformes3 sites
- Porphyrio kukwiedei3 sites
- Porphyrio melanotus3 sites
- Pseudobulweria rostrata3 sites
- Sylviornis neocaledoniae3 sites
- Turnix varia novaecaledoniae3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Accipiter fasciatus2 sites
- Accipiter haplochrous2 sites
- Aegotheles savesi2 sites
- Aerodramus spodiopygius2 sites
- Alopecoenas stairi2 sites
- Anas gracilis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Urodynamis taitensis, 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
7 references- Faunal extinction and human habitation in New Caledonia: initial results and implications of new research at the Pindai Caves2
- Prehistoric butchery and consumption of birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, south Pacific2
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands2
- Extinction, biogeography, and human exploitation of birds on Tikopia and Anuta, Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands2
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand1
- The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis1
- Fossil birds from late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia1
Each of the 11 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 content1
Picture of Urodynamis taitensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Peter Hancock (peterhancock)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Urodynamis taitensis 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 itUrodynamis through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sparrman 1787)