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

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. It looks as though “New World” vultures are sister to hawks and eagles after all, not anything stranger or more exotic (and certainly not storks). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know?

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). This is what a Black Hawk-Eagle shape looks like. This former aberrant wood-warbler is so weird, it has been given its own family. Ornate Hawk-Eagle.