Hi Herbert,
You are right, you do have more than one species going on in there. Looks like you have some galliform bones (e.g. chickens and friends) but also some larger passerine types. Never having encountered a bulbul bone I couldn't comment fully there! However, looking at this paper (Julian P Hume. "A new subfossil bulbul [Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae] from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean Journal of African Ornithology" - which I can send you if needed) you may well have some.
As a starting point (seeing as it sounds like you are without certain resources at the moment) download Cohen, A. and Serjeantson D. (1996) A Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones from Archaeological Sites.(2nd Edition). London, Archetype Publications Ltd https://app.box.com/shared/15gcd0a6t3 to give you a baseline.
Feel free to contact me off list if you want more details and the bulbul paper which has some nice photos of the elements in it.
All the best,
Julia
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] bird bone identification
Dear all,
Does anyone know these bird bones? I think, most of them (but not all of
them) came from just one species and it might be a passerine (but I´m definitely not an bird expert). I´m wondering if these could be the remains of bulbuls (Pycnonotus (barbatus?), since they are quite common in this area (egypt, just south of cairo, nile valley) and the bones were found in layers close to the surface.
Does anyone have photos of skeletal elements of bulbuls or have an idea which species could be represented? Unfortunately, there is no reference collection on site and there is no way to get the bones out of the excavation building.
Thanks in advance - any hint is highly welcomed!
http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/bild3
I´m sorry for the bad quality of the photo...
greetings and all the best
herbert
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