Re: What Do Ornithologists Think?

[ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)]

>It's fascinating to follow the discussions here about the relationship of 
>birds to other dinosaurs, but it suddenly occurs to me that the 
>discussion has been driven from the perspective of paleontology -- 
>looking from the past to the present. What do ornithologists think? 

Well, my PhD is actually in ornithology, though I'm no longer in academia;
my graduate work involved studies of bird anatomy.  So this discussion
hasn't been ALL palaeontologists...

But I would be delighted to hear other ornithologists who have (unlike me)
kept up with the primary literature chime in!
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