Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds. Even in the with full-genome analysis, owls posed a bit of a problem, which the authors attribute to the rapid diversification following the K-Pg boundary. Open Jarvis et al.’s
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