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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. .’s ” Beehler et al.’s

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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

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the eBird/Clements checklist puts them in a group as of version 6.9), but as far as I can tell, the new study didn’t sample viridis specifically. There are three subspecies in this group: caspius , seistanicus , poliocephalus — García-Ramírez and Trewick sampled the latter two. If split, their scientific name would be P.