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

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Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Most scientific research really just proves the obvious. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. A study on Black-tailed Godwits found that flying against the wind is harder than with the wind. As probably remarked before, most of the work scientists do is to prove what seems obvious.

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