Tyto cravesae (Craves's Giant Barn Owl)

[Melanie]

A newly described fossil barn owl from the West Indies.

Zootaxa 4020 (3): 533–553 (23 Sept. 2015)
Systematics and distribution of the giant fossil barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)
WILLIAM SUÁREZ & STORRS L. OLSON

www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z04020p553f.pdf

[Melanie]

Craves’s Giant Barn Owl was a nocturnal predator. It lived during the Quaternary, in the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago), but probably also into the Holocene, the epoch that followed and continues to the present.

www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2015/10/19/introducing-cravess-giant-barn-owl-a-new-species-named-after-julie-craves/

[Sebbe]

Suárez, W. (2022): Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds.Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 142(1): 10-74.

bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-142/issue-1/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3/Catalogue-of-Cuban-fossil-and-subfossil-birds/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3.full