Puerto Rican Woodcock

Scolopax anthonyi, the Puerto Rican woodcock, is an extinct species of woodcock in the family Scolopacidae that was once endemic to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Fossil remains were initially identified as belonging to a snipe of the genus Gallinago, but a re-analysis of the bones in 1976 indicated that they belonged to a woodcock. It has more osteological similarities to Old World woodcock species than American woodcock species, a trait it shares with the...