[TN-Bird] New bird taxonomy
- From: "David Aborn" <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-Bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Amanda-Pippin@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:50:45 -0400
Get ready for a new checklist! A new study of bird taxonomy that will be
published later this week has some surprises in it. It is being =
considered a
landmark genetic study of 169 bird species published by Field Museum
researchers. The bird project was part of a larger, federally funded =
effort
called Assembling the Tree of Life, which aims to trace the evolutionary
origins of all living things. "This is the most important single paper =
to
date on the higher-level relationships of birds," said Joel Cracraft,
curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. =
The
analysis showed that falcons are more closely related to parrots than to
hawks and eagles. If true, the finding would mean that falcons do not =
even
belong in the scientific order originally named for them. Will the sport =
now
be changed to parrotry? Will we now have to train our parrots to say =
"Polly
wants pigeon"? I will be interested in seeing what else the study found.
David Aborn
Chattanooga, TN
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