[Red Badger]

Let’s all sing line birdies sing!
Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!...............

[Carry_Okie]

Fantastic.

I can just imagine the amount of renaming to come. The trend is making hash of plant naming. Every time a new model comes out, they get do it all over again. That way, nobody will know what is what without an “expert.” Meanwhile, the people who USE biological names will need a concordance just to talk about them.

[dfwgator]

I haven’t heard about this.

[Jamestown1630]

Somewhat off-topic, but ‘Global Big Day’ is tomorrow:

https://ebird.org/globalbigday

(There’s also an informal ‘Big Year’ competition about which a funny movie was made):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year

[Getready]

Interesting. Would be fascinating to see what parts of the genomes have to be present and conserved in all bird species.

[SpaceBar]

I imagine the hoatzin is at or near the root of this genetic tree.

[Scrambler Bob]

Do they map the birds back to amoebas?

[Verginius Rufus]

People love birds.

The two most beloved species are chickens and turkeys.

[Democrat = party of treason]

Considering that nothing has ever “evolved” as far as science can actually prove, this is quite a feat...

[Seruzawa]

They missed a couple thousand species.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Seems like bad time for Researchers to proclaim they have solved their mystery to the Nth degree and now need a new quest i.e. funding.

[vpintheak]

Bovine Excrement. Laughable on it’s face.

[Macho MAGA Man]

(Researchers merged genetic data from 9,239 bird species)

Proof that Dinosaurs coexist with us.

[AdmSmith]

Nice, there is a presentation on YT: Avian Phylogeny: a complete and dynamic tree of birds featuring ELIOT MILLER | Birds of the World. We present early results on a project that seeks to more directly unite emerging evolutionary understanding with taxonomic revisions. By collaborating with the Open Tree of Life, we have created a modern phylogeny that can be readily updated as new evolutionary results are published, one that will one day directly link to the taxonomy and data resources used by Birds of the World.

We'll discuss our methods for creating the phylogeny, why it's important, as well as exciting ways to combine these new tools with birdwatching itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8EwSo-pYA

Birds of the World is a powerful resource that brings deep, scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology into a single platform where biologists and birders can find comprehensive life history information on birds. https://birdsoftheworld.org

[9YearLurker]

Surely Big and Larry are from the same branch.