CLOCK
To evolve from apes 7 hrs
Homo Sapiens so far 10mins
Human history 30secs
1000 years 3secs
I year 3msec
Birdies
Colorful males: Cardinal, Bunting, weavers, wagtails, pipits, chats,
Songbirds: tits, chickadees, martins, swift, thrashers
Colorful males: Oriel, Kingbird, Bluebird, Blackbird,
Colorful male: Tanager,
Songbirds: Warblers, Dicksissel
Songbirds: larks, swalllow, barbet
Colorful male: Sparrow, Grossbeak, Crossbill
Smart: BO Paradise, Jay, Gnatcatcher, Shrike,
Common: Flycatcher, larks, kinglets, waxwings, nuthatches, thrushes, mockingbirds, starlings,
Common: Robin, finch, redpoll, siskin
New world: broadbill, bulbul lyrebird, bowerbird, honeyeater
Australia originals: parrots,
BO Prey (Accipters): eagles, hawks, kites,
Colorful: bee-eaters, rollers,
Australia originals: falcons, kestrel, merlin, caracara
BOP: Vultures
Colorful: kingfishers
Unique:Owls, Hoatzin
Tree trunk climbers: barbets, toucans, woodpeckers
Tails: trogons, quetzals Beaks: hornbills, hoopoe
Divers; loons, penguins, albatross, boobies, gannets, cormorants, pelicans,
Waders; herons, spoonbill, egrets
Dancers: flamingoes,
Dancers: grebes,
Sea Birds - Gull, Tern, Gannet, Puffins, oystercatcher,
Waders - Storks & Ibis
Shore birds: plover, avocets, stilts, jacanas, skimmers,
Specialists: nighthawks, swifts, hummingbirds: cuckoos, pigeons,
Specialists: bustards, roadrunners, secretaries, ani
Specialists: cranes ,rails, moorhens
Game birds: quail, pheasant,
Flightless: ostrich, emu, moas
Gamebirds- Ducks,, Merganser
Game Birds Swans,, Geese,
432 different birds
From Prun et al in Nature Letters 2015
"A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing". Rearranged
https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/phylogeny to reflect these relationships.
Latest Phylogeny seems to show similar function within each DNA grouping.
Palaeognathae (flightless): ostrich, emu, moas
Galloanserae (game birds): quail, pheasant, ducks, geese, swans
Neoaves
Strisores (acrobats): frogmouth, nighthawks, swifts, hummingbirds
Columbaves (ground dwellers)
Otidimorph: bustards, cuckoos, turacos, roadrunners
Columbimorph: pigeons, sandgrouse, mesites
Gruiformes (crane form): cranes ,rails, moorhens
Aequorlitornithes (Waterbirds):
Miradorniths (dancers): flamingoes, grebes
Charadriiformes (shorebirds): plover, oystercatcher, avocets, stilts, jacanas, skimmers, terns, gulls, puffins
Eurypygimorphae (waders & divers); loons, penguins, albatross, stork, ibis, spoonbill, boobies, gannets, cormorants, pelicans, herons
Inopinaves (Landbirds)
hoatzin
Accipters (BO Prey): eagles, hawks, kites, vultures
owls
Coraclimorphae (specialized feeders)
Trogoniformes (tails): trogons, quetzals
Bucerotiformes (beaks) : hornbills, hoopoe
Coraciiformes (colorful): bee-eaters, rollers, kingfishers
Piciformes: (tree trunk climbers) barbets, toucans, woodpeckers
Australaves
Falconiformes: falcons, caracara
Psittaciformes: parrots,
Passiformes (perchers):
Tyrannides (new world): manakins, antbirds, ovenbirds, sharpbills, lyrebird, bowerbird, honeyeater
Corvides (smart): BO Paradise, crows, shrikes, jays
Passerides (songbirds): tits, chickadees, larks, swallows, martins, warblers
Muscicapida (common): kinglets, waxwings, robins, nuthatches, wrens, thrushes, flycatchers, mockingbirds, starlings, mynas, thrashers
Passerida (colorful males): weavers, sparrows, wagtails, pipits, buntings, chats, cardinals, grosbeaks, tanagers
