Re: Birds (Re: WHAT I SAW TODAY AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC)

[Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@inforamp.net>]

And just what,
>pray, happens if a certain living animal falls outside the node formed by
>the anchors we chose? I should think Dr. Orenstein would be most upset to
>learn that seriemas  [sic?] are no longer members of Aves!
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>    Jonathan R. Wagner

Well, startled, certainly... seriemas certainly aren't the sister taxon to all
other living birds, so if they aren't Aves (am I allowed to use the term
"Aves"?) neither are at least a third of living birds.  Ducks, for example,
probably wouldn't be birds either....


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