Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Open Jarvis et al.’s
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