[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

[AdmSmith]

The article: A complete and dynamic tree of birds

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409658122

Open Tree of Life aims to construct a comprehensive, dynamic and digitally-available tree of life by synthesizing published phylogenetic trees along with taxonomic data. The project is a collaborative effort between 11 PIs across 10 institutions. Funded by NSF ABI #1759838, NSF AVAToL #1208809. More information and tutorials at https://opentreeoflife.github.io/

[Jamestown1630]

Thanks.

The Barred Owls that I watch every year through Cornell and WBU have fledged; now I’m watching this little American Kestrel in Wisconsin – she has five eggs:

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/american-kestrels/