Even more surprising, falcons are close to mousebirds, and more than that,
penguins are not far diverse from others. I couldn't find any ratites (Emu,
Ostrich, etc) mentioned anywhere, unless under the name Paleognaths, which I
think relates to ancient mouth. Their placement as original divergent
suggests it is.
Practical use of this will be difficult. People won't produce books about
hawks & bee-eaters combined in one volume and falcons and parrots combined
in another.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Fraser
Sent: Friday, 2 November 2012 12:55 PM
To: Cog line
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Complete bird phylogenetic
tree
Thanks for this Tony; fascinating stuff which will take a long time to
digest. But look how far falcons are away from 'other raptors'!
cheers
Ian
On 2/11/2012 12:18, Tony Lawson wrote:
> This is a better article & includes the tree:
> http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/family-tree-links-all-10000
> -types-of-birds/
>
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Tony Lawson
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:26 AM
> To: COG chatline
> Subject: Fw: [Birding-Aus] Complete bird phylogenetic tree
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy O'Wheel
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:03 AM
>
>
> Apparently this week's Nature has published a complete evolutionary
> family
> tree of all extant species of birds in the world. I couldn't find the
> article on the website, but here is a press release from the
> University of
> Tasmania:
>
>
> http://www.utas.edu.au/tools/recent-news/news/first-family-tree-create
> d-for-all-living-bird-species
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy
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