David Steadman

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David Steadman is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stellenbosch University, PennWest Edinboro, University of Arizona, University of Florida, University of Kansas

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PhD Zoology University of Kansas
Masters Zoology University of Kansas
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According to Wikipedia, David William Steadman is a paleontologist and ornithologist, and serves as the curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. His research has concentrated on the evolution, biogeography, conservation, and extinction of tropical birds, particularly in the islands of the Pacific Ocean. He has also authored over 180 scientific publications. He has conducted a number of digs at prehistoric sites and uncovered widescale extinctions caused by humans in the early stages of colonisation. He has conducted several expeditions to the Galápagos Islands, and has described a number of extinct species of birds and more recently was involved in discovering that the Solomon Islands frogmouth is a species . He worked extensively on Easter Island, carrying out the first systematic excavations of the island in order to identify the plants and animals that once lived there.

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David Steadman's Published Works

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Published Works

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History (2008) (1797)
Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island Birds: Biodiversity Meets Zooarchaeology (1995) (753)
Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands. (2005) (223)
Prehistoric Extinctions on Islands and Continents (1999) (198)
Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds (2008) (197)
Extinction of birds in Eastern polynesia: A review of the record, and comparisons with other Pacific Island groups (1989) (185)
Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs (2003) (169)
Perspectives in ornithology: The origin and early radiation of birds (1983) (115)
Fossil vertebrates from Antigua, Lesser Antilles: Evidence for late Holocene human-caused extinctions in the West Indies. (1984) (112)
Predictable evolution toward flightlessness in volant island birds (2016) (111)
Biogeography of Tongan birds before and after human impact. (1993) (108)
Bird remains from an archaeological site on Henderson Island, South Pacific: Man-caused extinctions on an "uninhabited" island. (1985) (98)
Rapid prehistoric extinction of iguanas and birds in Polynesia (2002) (97)
Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas (2007) (96)
Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands (1995) (96)
The late Quaternary extinction and future resurrection of birds on Pacific islands (2003) (95)
Radiocarbon dates on bones of extinct birds from Hawaii. (1987) (94)
Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals (2013) (93)
Stratigraphy, chronology, and cultural context of an early faunal assemblage from Easter Island (1994) (89)
Prehistoric Butchery and Consumption of Birds in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific (2002) (88)
Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. (1990) (85)
Holocene vertebrate fossils from Isla Floreana, Galápagos (1986) (82)
Chronology of Holocene vertebrate extinction in the Galápagos Islands (1991) (73)
Earliest Mexican Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in the Maya Region: Implications for Pre-Hispanic Animal Trade and the Timing of Turkey Domestication (2012) (72)
A review of the osteology and paleontology of turkeys (Aves: Meleagridinae) (1980) (70)
The historic biogeography and community ecology of Polynesian pigeons and doves (2003) (69)
Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life. (2011) (62)
New Extinct Mekosuchine Crocodile from Vanuatu, South Pacific (2002) (58)
Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: extinctions on a large Melanesian island. (1999) (57)
Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum (2017) (55)
Vertebrate community on an ice-age Caribbean island (2015) (55)
A Chronostratigraphic Analysis of Landbird Extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands (1996) (52)
Fossils reject climate change as the cause of extinction of Caribbean bats (2015) (48)
The Potential for Conservation of Polynesian Birds through Habitat Mapping and Species Translocation (1991) (47)
Changing Exploitation of Terrestrial Vertebrates During the Past 3000 Years on Tobago, West Indies (2002) (41)
Extinction and biogeography of bats on 'Eua, Kingdom of Tonga. American Museum novitates ; no. 3125 (1995) (41)
Absence of blood parasites in indigenous and introduced birds from the Cook Islands, South Pacific. (1990) (41)
The relationships of the Pedionomidae (Aves, Charadriiformes) (1981) (40)
Extinct and Extirpated Birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, Southern Cook Islands (1991) (39)
Excavations at the Ureia site, Aitutaki, Cook Islands: preliminary results (1990) (37)
Relationships of Megaoryzomys curioi, an Extinct Cricetine Rodent (Muroidea: Muridae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (1982) (37)
Extinction & Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds (2006) (37)
FOSSIL BIRDS FROM MANGAIA SOUTHERN COOK ISLANDS (1985) (36)
The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands (2009) (36)
TROPICAL MARSH AND SAVANNA OF THE LATE PLEISTOCENE IN NORTHEASTERN SONORA, MEXICO (2006) (36)
New Species And Records Of Birds (Aves, Megapodiidae, Columbidae) From An Archaeological Site On Lifuka, Tonga (1989) (35)
Domination by Reptiles in a Terrestrial Food Web of the Bahamas Prior to Human Occupation (2014) (34)
Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia , Southern Cook Islands (1986) (34)
Changes in a West Indian bird community since the late Pleistocene (2015) (34)
Long-Term Trends in Prehistoric Fishing and Hunting on Tobago, West Indies (2006) (32)
South Pacific Iguanas: Human Impacts and a New Species (2004) (32)
Distribution, relative abundance, and habitat relationships of landbirds in the Vava'u Group Kingdom of Tonga (1998) (30)
Late-Holocene faunal and landscape change in the Bahamas (2014) (29)
Insular avian adaptations on two Neotropical continental islands (2012) (28)
A new genus of flightless ibis (Threskiornithidae) and other fossil birds from cave deposits in Jamaica (1977) (27)
Conservation status of forests and vertebrate communities in the Vava'u Island Group, Tonga (1999) (26)
Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World. (2001) (24)
Dispersal limitation, speciation, environmental filtering and niche differentiation influence forest tree communities in West Polynesia (2013) (24)
More Bird Bones from Polynesian Archaeological Sites on Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, South Pacific (1989) (24)
The biogeography and extinction of megapodes in Oceania (1999) (24)
Human-caused extinction of birds. (1997) (24)
Ana Manuku: a prehistoric ritualistic site on Mangaia, Cook Islands (2000) (23)
NEW SPECIES AND RECORDS OF BIRDS FROM PREHISTORIC SITES ON NIUE, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (2000) (22)
The Historic and Prehistoric Distribution of Parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies (2001) (22)
Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds from Fais Island, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia (1994) (22)
AVIFAUNA OF A LOWLAND FOREST SITE ON ISABEL, SOLOMON ISLANDS (2001) (21)
Status of Land Birds on Selected Islands in the Ha'apai Group, Kingdom of Tonga (1998) (21)
A New Species Of Porphyrio (Aves, Rallidae) From Archaeological Sites In The Marquesas islands (1988) (21)
Archaeological Investigations on the Small Islands of Aiwa Levu and Aiwa Lailai, Lau Group, Fiji (2007) (21)
The changing diversity and distribution of dry forest passerine birds in northwestern Peru since the last ice age (2015) (20)
Defining the Lau Context: Recent Findings on Nayau, Lau Islands, Fiji (2004) (20)
Nonassociation of Paleoindians with AMS-Dated Late Pleistocene Mammals from the Dutchess Quarry Caves, New York (1997) (20)
Recent archaeological findings at Qaranilaca Cave, Vanuabalavu Island, Fiji (2004) (19)
Late pleistocene passerine birds from Sonora, Mexico (2011) (19)
A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction in the West Indies (2013) (19)
NEW INFORMATION ON THE LATE PLEISTOCENE BIRDS FROM SAN JOSECITO CAVE, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO' (1994) (18)
Rails (Aves: Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric sites in the Kingdom of Tonga, including a description of a new species (2005) (18)
Mortuary patterns in burial caves on Mangaia, Cook Islands (2003) (18)
Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia (2020) (17)
2 New Species Of Parrots (Aves, Psittacidae) From Archaeological Sites In The Marquesas islands (1987) (17)
Origin, paleoecology, and extirpation of bluebirds and crossbills in the Bahamas across the last glacial–interglacial transition (2017) (17)
Examining Temporal Differences in Faunal Exploitation at Two Ceramic Age Sites in Puerto Rico (2009) (17)
California Condor Associated with Spruce-Jack Pine Woodland in the Late Pleistocene of New York (1987) (16)
Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including Hotumatua anakenana, New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae)1 (2009) (16)
Biogeography and Prehistoric Exploitation of Birds in the Mussau Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea (1998) (16)
Galapagos: Discovery on Darwin's Islands (1988) (16)
Geographical ecology of dry forest tree communities in the West Indies (2018) (16)
Forest Plant and Bird Communities in the Lau Group, Fiji (2010) (16)
New species of gallicolumba and macropygia aves columbidae from archaeological sites in polynesia (1992) (15)
The diversity and biogeography of late Pleistocene birds from the lowland Neotropics (2015) (15)
A Pliocene Bunting from Chihuahua, Mexico (1982) (15)
Extinction and biogeography of birds on huahine, society islands, French polynesia (1992) (15)
A new genus of frogmouth (Podargidae) from the Solomon Islands – results from a taxonomic review of Podargus ocellatus inexpectatus Hartert 1901 (2007) (15)
Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations in the Dutchess Quarry Caves, Orange County, New York (1994) (15)
A re-examination of Palaeostruthus hatcheri (Shufeldt), a late Miocene sparrow from kansas (1981) (14)
Why Are There No Sea Snakes in the Atlantic (2018) (14)
An extinct species of tooth‐billed pigeon (Didunculus) from the Kingdom of Tonga, and the concept of endemism in insular landbirds (2006) (14)
New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands1 (2006) (14)
A New Species of Extinct Parrot (Psittacidae: Eclectus) from Tonga and Vanuatu, South Pacific1 (2005) (14)
Regional variation in Caribbean dry forest tree species composition (2015) (14)
A Late Pleistocene Bird Community at the Northern Edge of the Tropics in Sonora, Mexico (2010) (14)
The humerus of Xenicibis , the extinct flightless ibis of Jamaica (1980) (13)
LANDBIRDS ON OFFSHORE ISLANDS IN SAMOA (2001) (13)
Late Holocene Historical Ecology: The Timing of Vertebrate Extirpation on Crooked Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas (2017) (13)
New Species of Extinct Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Archaeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia1 (2007) (13)
NEW BEHAVIORAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE AVIFAUNA OF RENNELL, SOLOMON ISLANDS (1999) (13)
Cranial Polymorphism and Systematics of Miocene and Living Alligator in North America (2016) (12)
Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna (2010) (12)
Archaeology of Trants, Montserrat. Part 5. Prehistoric avifauna (1999) (12)
A Preliminary Survey of Landbirds on Lakeba, Lau Group, Fiji (2000) (12)
The fossil record of the Glareolidae and Haematopodidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) (1978) (12)
First Highly Stratified Prehistoric Vertebrate Sequence from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (1999) (11)
The prehistoric extinction of South Pacific birds : catastrophy versus attrition (1999) (11)
A new species of bullfinch (Aves: Emberizinae) from a late quaternary cave deposit on Cayman Brac, West Indies (1985) (11)
Prehistoric species richness of birds on oceanic islands (2008) (11)
Ancient mitogenomics elucidates diversity of extinct West Indian tortoises (2021) (11)
PREHISTORIC EXPLOITATION OF BIRDS ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO (2003) (10)
Relative Abundance, Habitat Use, and Long-term Population Changes of Wintering and Resident Landbirds on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (2009) (9)
Guide to the Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia Dick Watling (2002) (9)
Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania (2006) (9)
The bat community of Haiti and evidence for its long-term persistence at high elevations (2017) (9)
Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird (Caracara creightoni) in a phylogenetic context. (2019) (9)
A new species of Late Pleistocene rail (Aves: Rallidae) from Abaco, the Bahamas (2013) (9)
Paleoecology of Miocene crocodylians in Florida: Insights from stable isotope analysis (2016) (8)
The paleoecology and extinction of endemic tortoises in the Bahamian Archipelago (2020) (8)
A Prehistoric, Noncultural Vertebrate Assemblage from Tutuila, American Samoa (2004) (8)
Ancient DNA from the extinct Haitian cave-rail (Nesotrochis steganinos) suggests a biogeographic connection between the Caribbean and Old World (2021) (8)
An Extinct Eagle (Aves: Accipitridae) from the Quaternary of Hispaniola (2019) (8)
Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas (2018) (7)
Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World (2000) (7)
A New Subspecies And New Records Of Papasula abbotti (Aves, Sulidae) From Archaeological Sites In The Tropical Pacific (1988) (7)
The Volcanic Outlier of 'Ata in Tongan Prehistory: Reconsideration of its Role and Settlement Chronology (2004) (7)
Prehistoric Birds from Rurutu, Austral Islands, East Polynesia1 (2010) (7)
Historical climatic variability and geographical barriers as drivers of community composition in a biodiversity hotspot (2016) (7)
Changing ecological communities along an elevation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest on Hispaniola (Sierra Martín García, Dominican Republic) (2019) (7)
The late Quaternary bird community of New Providence, Bahamas (2018) (7)
A new species of Woodcock (Aves: Scolopacidae: Scolopax) from Hispaniola, West Indies. (2015) (6)
Reproductive condition, moult, and body mass of birds from Isabel, Solomon Islands (2001) (6)
Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas (2020) (6)
A new species of swiftlet (Aves: Apodidae) from the late Quaternary of Mangaia, Cook Islands, Oceania (2002) (6)
Winter Bird Communities in Pine Woodland vs. Broadleaf Forest on Abaco, The Bahamas (2013) (6)
WEIGHTS OF SOME WEST-INDIAN BIRDS (1980) (5)
The identity and taxonomic status of Megapodius stairi and M. Burnabyi (Aves : megapodiidae) (1991) (5)
The Collared Peccary/Javelina/Sajino/Poco de Monte/Wild Hog/Pakira/Patira/Taitetu/Catete/Catto/Quenk [Tayassu tajacu, Pecari tajacu] Booklet and Producers' Manual (2016) (5)
Prehistoric birds from the Lake Titicaca region, Bolivia: long-term continuity and change in an Andean bird community (2015) (5)
UPLAND BIRD COMMUNITIES ON SANTO, VANUATU, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (2006) (5)
A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies. (2016) (5)
Molecular phylogeny of Caribbean dipsadid (Xenodontinae: Alsophiini) snakes, including identification of the first record from the Cay Sal Bank, The Bahamas. (2015) (4)
Late Pleistocene snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Abaco, The Bahamas (2017) (4)
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A new species of gull (Laridae: Larus) from an archaeological site on Huahine, Society Islands (2002) (3)
Accipiter imitator on Isabel Island, Solomon Islands (2001) (3)
Birds of Summer Solstice: World-Renewal Rituality on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida (2020) (2)
Another new species of flightless Rail (Aves: Rallidae: Rallus) from Abaco, The Bahamas. (2018) (2)
Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs Luis M. Chiappe Lawrence M. Witmer (2003) (2)
Everything You Want to Know and Moa (2002) (2)
Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World David Gibbs Eustace Barnes John Cox (2001) (2)
A sedimentary record of middle Holocene precipitation and terrestrial vertebrates from Great Cistern Blue Hole (Abaco Island), The Bahamas (2016) (2)
A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania. (2020) (2)
Comments on the proposed suppression of Rallus nigra Miller (1987) (2)
New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru (2020) (2)
The graphic art of Francisco Goya : [exhibition] from the Norton Simon Foundation, the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and the Pomona College collections (1975) (1)
Unexpected Limb Proportions in a Pleistocene Population of Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) from the Bahamas (2019) (1)
A Guide to the Birds of the Galápagos Islands Isabel Castro Antonia Phillips (1999) (1)
Abraham Van Diepenbeeck: Seventeenth century Flemish painter (1982) (1)
Resolution of Respect: Professor Paul Schultz Martin 1928–2010 (2011) (1)
On biodiversity and conservation of the Iris hexagona complex ( Phaeiris , Iridaceae) (2021) (0)
Reply to Benkman: Hispaniolan crossbills formerly resided in the Bahamas (2017) (0)
The Norton Simon Exhibition at Princeton (1972) (0)
The Birds of St. Helena Beau W. Rowlands Trevor Trueman Storrs L. Olson M. Neil McCulloch Richard K. Brooke (1999) (0)
Fossil Flamingo (Phoenicopteriformes) from the Miocene (Hemingfordian) of Southern California, USA (2022) (0)
Evolution Radiocarbon dates on bones of extinct birds from Hawaii ( tandem accelerator mass spectrometer / archeology / famuil turnover ) (2008) (0)
First Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico speci en of Short-tailed Shearwater (2009) (0)
Review of ‘The Age of Birds’ by J. Alan Feduccia (1981) (0)
The Pleistocene Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) from The Bahamas (2020) (0)
Regional variation in Caribbean dry forest tree species composition (2015) (0)
Storrs Lovejoy Olson, 1944–2021 (2021) (0)
Supplementary material from "Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum " (2017) (0)
Using Forest Service multiple species inventory and monitoring protocols to count birds at forest inventory and analysis plots on the Caribbean landscape: results, observations, and challenges from year 1 of a 2-year study (2009) (0)
Paleontology and systematics of the vertebrates of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (1980) (0)
community since the late Pleistocene (2014) (0)
Extinction andBiogeography ofBatson 'Eua, KingdomofTonga (1995) (0)
A large eagle (Aves, Accipitridae) from the early Miocene of Panama (2016) (0)
Birds of Jamaica: A Photographic Field Guide Audrey Downer Robert Sutton Birds of the Eastern Caribbean Peter G. H. Evans (1992) (0)
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas) (2023) (0)
French Painting: Romanticism to Surrealism (1979) (0)
Galápagos Diary: A Complete Guide to the Archipelago’s Birdlife.ByHermann Heinzeland, Barnaby Hall.Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $45.00 (hardcover); $24.95 (paper). 272 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–520–22794–8 (hc); 0–520–22836–7 (pb). 2000. (2002) (0)
Moving from modern toward post-modern science: comment on “An integrated assessment of the vascular plants of the Americas” (2018) (0)
Human-Driven Diversity Changes in Caribbean Parrots Across the Holocene (2023) (0)
Natural vs. Human-caused Extinctions of Terrestrial Vertebrates in the Bahamas (2016) (0)
Ancient DNA and high-resolution chronometry reveal a long-term human role in the historical diversity and biogeography of the Bahamian hutia (2020) (0)

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