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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. And for many of them, it worked- they rehabilitated themselves, adapted, and gave up some of their grandiose postures and lazy lifestyle as well as their aristocratic black-and-white appearance. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e.

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