Late Pleistocene avifauna of Nanin Kamak Cave (CN Bulgaria)

A total of 83 bones and bone fragments of birds collected in the Nanin Kamak Cave near Musselievo village have been identified as 21 species of 9 orders: Anas crecca, cf. Anas platyrhynchos, Tetrastes bonasia, cf. Tetrao tetrix, Coturnix coturnix, Perdix perdix, Phasianus colchicus, Columba livia/oenas, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Fulica atra, Numenius phaeopus/taenuirostris, Burrhinus oedicnemus, Glareola cf. nordmanni, Scolopax rusticola, Falco tinnunculus, Tachybaptus ruficollis, Otis tarda/ Tetrax tetrax, Alauda arvensis, Eremophila alpestris, and Oenanthe oenanthe. It is concluded that a forest-steppe landscape dominated in the region of the cave in that period of the Late Pleistocene.