I don't know if you are interested in negatives, but there are no subfossil
Otis records from Sweden, which is in a way odd since it bred in Scania
until ca 1860 and was heavily hunted.
I don't know if Pleistocene records are also wanted. In that case contact
me directly, since there are far to many Palearctic records (50+) to list here.
One interesting thing about the fossil record of Otis is that it seems to
have had a sort of a population boom at the very end of the Pleistocene and
in the earliest Holocene. There are many records from this interval, some
in odd places such as Wales (Harrison 1987) and Corsica (Cuisin & Vigne
1998). Probably this was due to a warming climate and large areas of open
country, until forest trees had time to spread.
Cuisin, J. & Vigne, J.-D. 1998. Presence de la grande outarde (Otis tarda)
au Boreal dans la region de Bonifacio (Corse-du-Sud, France; 8eme
millenaire av. J.-C.). Geobios 31(6):831-837.
Harrison, C.J.O. (1987) Port Eynon Point Cave. The early Holocene avifauna.
Gower 38, 60-65.
Tommy Tyrberg
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