Koels and Archaeopteryx

[Denise Goodfellow <>]

Have you seen a young Pheasant Coucal?
Denise


on 1/2/08 10:18 AM, Evan Beaver at  wrote:

> I had my first good look at a young Koel the other day, in a friends
> backyard in Canberra. It reminded me instantly of the drawings I've
> seen of Archaeopteryx and seemed, to my untrained eye, to behave
> roughly like a lizard that was surprised to be flying; ie hopping
> around trees a lot, sitting still for long periods and more
> importantly, flopping straight into the foliage, rather than a
> controlled landing on a branch. Are they an evolutionarily 'old'
> species? Or a product of their environment?
> 
> EB


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