Bird remains from the archaeological site of Guinea (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

Evidence for a second western Palaearctic seabird extinction during the last Millennium: the Lava ShearwaterPuffinus olsoni

“…This bone may be from a Lava Shearwater and could perhaps indicate that aboriginals on the Canary Islands hunted these birds at breeding areas, as is the case with other Procellariidae (Rando et al . 1996, 1997).…”

Combined Spatio-Temporal Impacts of Climate and Longline Fisheries on the Survival of a Trans-Equatorial Marine Migrant

“…Cory’s shearwaters of Macaronesian Islands were exploited by indigenous inhabitants from prehistoric times (e.g. [86] , [87] ). More recently, regular chick harvest, with likely increasing intensity during most of the 20 th century, plus severe episodes of adult killings reduced dramatically the population of Selvagem Island [41] .…”

Human impact and ecological changes during prehistoric settlement on the Canary Islands

“…Some of the most common bones found in these sites belong to the common buzzard (Buteo buteo), Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea), various pigeon species (Columba spp. ), the crow (Corvus corax), the Canary Island quail (Coturnix gomerae), the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and the lava shearwater (Puffinus olsoni) (Alcover and Florit, 1989;Rando and Perera, 1994;Rando et al, 1996Rando et al, , 1997. However, birds were not a significant part of the early Canarian diet in comparison with marine animals and domestic mammals, whose remains are much more abundant in archaeological deposits (Alcover and Florit, 1989;Rando et al, 1997).…”