The fact that penguins, perhaps humanity's favorite flightless bird, are closest related to one of the birds that spends the most time in the air (albatrosses) is one of my favorite stories in evolution, up there with how we primates are closer related to mice and rabbits than to, say, dogs and cats.
Primates, rodents and rabbits evolved on a scatter of islands where Europe now is. Like the dinosaurs which lived on these islands before them, they exhibit island dwarfism, although a few of the primates, including us, got bigger when they reached continental land masses to the south and east. To get bigger they have to eat a hell of a lot in places like rainforests, tall-herb on volcanic soils or, for us, farmed landscapes when we had eaten most of the the megafaunas. We are megafauna now. Have you noticed that all those lab models of us, monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice and rats are our closest kin.
@@peteracton2246 I have to wonder if the primates appeared first and rodents and rabbits split from them, since we obviously still have our canine teeth whereas they don't. Another "dun-dun-DUN" moment upending humanity's tendency to put itself atop the tree of life; something evolved FROM us.
@@andyjay729 Thanks AndyJay. I love this kind of stuff. Yes, human hubris needs humbling (imho!). I've often thought that rodents are ahead of primates in evolutionary terms so this fact supports my view, although I doubt I'll get many of my species to agree on this. I recall David Attenborough commenting that his Life on Earth TV series would consider a hierarchy all the way "up" to humans and then a promotional poster for a later TV series of his still had humans at the top of the tree of life. Primordial slime all the way up to Queen Victoria (Professor Ronald Hutton)!
Insane Video Quality for a Channel of this Size, instant subscribe. Hope your channel will get the recognition it deserves, i look forward to watching you grow brother💪
12:53 IDK why I said most famous. I just meant, "the next linage". 28:39 my bad, that's an Indigo Bunting, not an Indigo bird. Though, Indigo Buntings are still in the Passerida.
The way the ornithologists I hang with all pronounce "corvids" with a short "i". Think "vid" as in "video". Great vid, by the way. I'm going to recommend it to young budding naturalists, as well as novice bird watchers.
I'm a zoologist (I specialized in soil invertebrates) and, well, my ornithology classes were fucking awful, taught by a professor who clearly didn't know anything about birds, whose exams were hard as fuck, and whose ppts were mostly oudated text and wikipedia links... I ended up hating the group as a whole and never got to understand it, to date they are my least favorite group. With this video, now I can say that I understand the basics on the phylogeny of birds. Thank you.
I took part in a trip to hungary (from germany) for my bachelors degree. The Professor was a misogynistic, racist alcoholic and his ppts were mostly photographs, mostly his own that went on for like 50 pages. For my presentation on my part of his material i condensed it to 12 pages, and he was so sceptic at first if that would be enough. But guess what, you can efficiently present concepts on few well defined slides. Anways, i also had to construct the list of our observed birds in phylogenetic order. The order that he gave me was probably around 30-50 years old i guess, lots of morphologic trait clustering in there. That dumb fuck said that phylogenies dont make sense anymore since "the damned geneticists" started "meddling" in the systematics. The guy was 83 years old at that point. Except for the Professor that was a solid trip
I have literally been wanting to get into bird phylogeny, and boom! This video! Even me, a person that has had an interest in birds for a decade or so now, learned things that I didn't know. Like, what do you mean Old World Orioles are their own separate group?! I have always seen them as thrushes! (probably due to them being placed beside them in the field guides...) Super informative video! Definitely coming back for more!!! Love your presentation style too! Reminds me of Clint's Reptiles :)
This video was MADE for me! I’ve been super absorbed with evolutionary biology recently, and just yesterday I was thinking I need to learn more about bird phylogeny. Subscribed!
I love this video, Your enthusiasm and energy were great. I particularly loved how you worked in explanations of general terms like how to read an evolutionary tree, convergent evolution, and radiation. Only idea for improvement would be a brief explanation of what evolutionary biologists consider when they assign species to a group, such as genetics, bone structures, fossils, etc. Great video, thanks again.
I am so happy to find this video. I've been wanting for quite some time now to learn more about the details of the bird family tree. I've watched this 2 times in a row just now.🐦🦆🦉🦅
Link to all images used in video: docs.google.com/document/d/1H-N4hDWKNErP1GbFzQy6Bt2c4Iu0oNTd9lTLcAl3yHE/edit?usp=sharing The shape of the bird family tree depicted here is largely based on these sources. Prum et al. 2015. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. www.nature.com/articles/nature15697 Stiller et al. 2024. Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07323-1 Kuhl et al. 2020. An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3′-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38/1/108/5891114?login=true Houde et al. 2019. Phylogenetic Signal of Indels and the Neoavian Radiation. www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/11/7/108 Suh. 2016. The phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12213
Thank you, for the much needed topic of bird classification. Images with family name need to stay on screen for a longer time for us newbies to the subject.
Incredible video. Insanely well done and covering an overwhelmingly complex topic in such a clear way. I am currently in my apprenticeship to become a zookeeper and we obviously have to learn about all animals on the tree of life and birds tend to be the most difficult part for all apprentices and the biggest issue in the final exams. Thank you so much.
I'm wearing a regent bowerbird shirt while I watch this, how pleased I was to see a picture of one pop up on screen! Great vid, ive thoroughly enjoyed. Laughed and learned
Oh my god. You are the second most passionate bird person I've ever seen. Truly It was like looking into a mirror😁 Subbed, liked, commented and shared - you are my spirit animal (Picathartes🤙)
I would have thought that cranes were more related to forklifts than rails, and that rails would be more closely related to I-beams. Shows what I know.
Tip: the "-es" ending is always a normal, full syllable (well, it IS Latin) So, the ending -formes is 2 syllables. And AVES (birds) is 2 SYLLABLES, Neoaves are 4 sylls. Easy. (Neoaves is an awful word, being another of those new coinages which mix languages; Neos is GK for young, auis is Lit for bird..... tele is Gk for far, uisio is Lat for sight ...etc!)
^ OP is correct. i think besides adding the syllables, even scientists pronounce some groups differently so I wouldn’t sweat it too much unless you’re a latin major.
for a youtube video, I do think you should look up pronunciations beforehand though. I’m just trying to say the difference between saying “ehz” and eez” doesn’t matter much. Great video, though
I live in Hawaii. Interacting with diverse bird species has made I nterested in learning more about birds. I know that, in several species I’ve dealt with firsthand (repopulation of endangered species, invasives, and domestics), fewer of them were needed to establish healthy breeding populations than mammals, pointing to different genetic mutation mechanisms or rates. I bird-sat a Japanese White Eye rescued as a chick for several weeks. Learned some ways they communicate, especially the disapproval chirp. A White-Rumped Shama bird used this sound at me while I was doing yard work, and I knew to move from where I was squatting and cleaning up a planter-bed. When I was out of the way, she grabbed a huge centipede I unknowingly disturbed while cleaning! Crazy! Seems like these unrelated song birds have some sort of common language they use to communicate across species. Also saw common signature behaviors in another two species: American crows (North America) and Common mynahs (Hawaii). They both hold “court”. They get in a group, start squabbling, then gang up on one of the members as though to punish them. Looks brutal. Can’t find any information on these behaviors anywhere. Surprised there’s not more research on bird social behaviors.
This was great, Eric. Your video was suggested to me on RUclips after I curiously was searching on Google about the relatedness of chickens, turkeys, and peafowls. I was surprised, when I reached the end of your video, to discover that you only had 330 subscribers. Well, now you have 331!
this is everything ive had a special interest in for years, throw in a transformer at the end and buddy i would have exploded! tysm for sharing this with us!
You're such an engaging speaker and educator! Great video! Please do a video about motmots! If not for the educational value, then the ultimate excuse to say motmot as much as possible! Also, doobly-doo 😂😂😂
About the hummingbirds evolving from a nightjar like form, do you think it could be convergence with butteflies? Butterflies' ancestors were also nocturnal like moths, but started spending more time being active at day due to predation from bats. Could owls or some other predator have been a similar pressure for hummingbirds to become diurnal?
I don't think that is an unreasonable hypothesis, but I do think that it would be very hard to prove. Given just how long ago swifts and hummingbirds broke off from other nocturnal relatives, I think the reason why they evolved to be diurnal might just be lost to time. But who knows, paleontologists can get very inventive with ways to learn new information, so maybe a solid reasoning will emerge one day.
I'm an amateur bird photographer in central america and I managed to snap a pic of a motmot the other day. I was surprised to see it fly into a hole in the ground though, was not expecting that at all!
For a few seconds around the future site of Chicxulub, Mexico some 66 million years ago, it kinda was. And possibly as a result of that, that was also true in India at the same time.
Thanks for covering this! These seem to change a bit over the years as to what's related to what. Especially the placing of hawks away from eagles! I also seem to remember owls being placed closer to frogmouths and such like once. Sorry, I laughed after you wondered if you pronounced Opisthcomiformes correct but then pronounced Hoatzin wrong; the a is sounded ho-ah-tsin
Watching you (going nowhere fast for a while) _while_ wearing the same DKNY 5646's... 😲 Didn't know that falcons are not closely related to hawks and eagles, that was interesting. 🙏
Actually The kingbird lends its name to the group: TYRRANOS is an archaic Greek word for KING. (And yes, the modern word tyrant comes from it- but the root word is just king.)
Enjoyed your romp through the Aves. At 28:38, your Indigo-bird appears to be an Indigo Bunting, in a different family of passerines. Indigo-birds live in Africa, while the Indigo Bunting is from North America.
I like this video! Your narration is great, but i wish there were more pictures up while you're talking so i can better relate what you're saying to what you're talking about. When you go through the neoaves, i dont have enough time to find which category you're talking about before the image disappears. Maybe im just dumb, but i want to learn.
This is good, but I think you should revise the family tree of Neoaves, since by now we mostly know how these groups are related to one another. So for example hoatzins and gruiformes are more closely related to one another than to the others.
Actually the Gruiformes and Charadriiformes (gulls and shorebirds) are each other's closest relatives, though hoatzins did earlier split from the same lineage as them.
Hey bird dude! Great video, I appreciate your enthusiasm and the information. I might be wrong, but i think it is /old/ world vultures who belong in the accipitre family, rather than the new, with their slender beaks and walking feet? Pardon me if wrong. I also might like it if the pics and phylo trees were up for a smudge longer and hair bigger (especially on niche birds or families that a well-informed amateur herself may not immediately know). Thanks for the content! Take care!
I think I see where the confusion is here. You are right, new world vultures are not in the family Accipitridae, but old world vultures are in that family. But, even though new world vultures are not in the family Accipitridae, they are inside of the larger clade Accipitrimorphae (which is what I display here). This broader clade includes the family Accipirtidae, New World Vultures, Secretaybirds, and Osprey. It sure can be confusing when these clade names all sound so similar! If that still doesn't make much sense, here is a link to a video that covers this section of the tree in much greater detail then I was able to here. ruclips.net/video/7xv3NLGO5do/видео.html
The fact that penguins, perhaps humanity's favorite flightless bird, are closest related to one of the birds that spends the most time in the air (albatrosses) is one of my favorite stories in evolution, up there with how we primates are closer related to mice and rabbits than to, say, dogs and cats.
Primates, rodents and rabbits evolved on a scatter of islands where Europe now is. Like the dinosaurs which lived on these islands before them, they exhibit island dwarfism, although a few of the primates, including us, got bigger when they reached continental land masses to the south and east. To get bigger they have to eat a hell of a lot in places like rainforests, tall-herb on volcanic soils or, for us, farmed landscapes when we had eaten most of the the megafaunas. We are megafauna now.
Have you noticed that all those lab models of us, monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice and rats are our closest kin.
@@peteracton2246 I have to wonder if the primates appeared first and rodents and rabbits split from them, since we obviously still have our canine teeth whereas they don't. Another "dun-dun-DUN" moment upending humanity's tendency to put itself atop the tree of life; something evolved FROM us.
@@andyjay729 Thanks AndyJay. I love this kind of stuff. Yes, human hubris needs humbling (imho!). I've often thought that rodents are ahead of primates in evolutionary terms so this fact supports my view, although I doubt I'll get many of my species to agree on this. I recall David Attenborough commenting that his Life on Earth TV series would consider a hierarchy all the way "up" to humans and then a promotional poster for a later TV series of his still had humans at the top of the tree of life. Primordial slime all the way up to Queen Victoria (Professor Ronald Hutton)!
How else is a bird getting to Antarctica other than flying farther than all other birds? Is weird though
@@Direblade11 Actually, penguins seem to have evolved on New Zealand.
Glad to see a new biology channel on my feed. I wish you make it big, there's never enough science divulgation!
Why was this video at the top of my feed? You are so new. Fascinating.
RUclips tried out a new algorithm some time ago.
Insane Video Quality for a Channel of this Size, instant subscribe. Hope your channel will get the recognition it deserves, i look forward to watching you grow brother💪
Agreed, I'm signing-up!
12:53 IDK why I said most famous. I just meant, "the next linage".
28:39 my bad, that's an Indigo Bunting, not an Indigo bird. Though, Indigo Buntings are still in the Passerida.
I was going to say "to be fair, they are indigo birds" but actually everything but the tip of its head is light blue, so...
Love the yellow headed blackbird thumbnail.
The way the ornithologists I hang with all pronounce "corvids" with a short "i". Think "vid" as in "video".
Great vid, by the way. I'm going to recommend it to young budding naturalists, as well as novice bird watchers.
I'm a zoologist (I specialized in soil invertebrates) and, well, my ornithology classes were fucking awful, taught by a professor who clearly didn't know anything about birds, whose exams were hard as fuck, and whose ppts were mostly oudated text and wikipedia links... I ended up hating the group as a whole and never got to understand it, to date they are my least favorite group. With this video, now I can say that I understand the basics on the phylogeny of birds. Thank you.
I took part in a trip to hungary (from germany) for my bachelors degree. The Professor was a misogynistic, racist alcoholic and his ppts were mostly photographs, mostly his own that went on for like 50 pages. For my presentation on my part of his material i condensed it to 12 pages, and he was so sceptic at first if that would be enough. But guess what, you can efficiently present concepts on few well defined slides.
Anways, i also had to construct the list of our observed birds in phylogenetic order. The order that he gave me was probably around 30-50 years old i guess, lots of morphologic trait clustering in there. That dumb fuck said that phylogenies dont make sense anymore since "the damned geneticists" started "meddling" in the systematics. The guy was 83 years old at that point.
Except for the Professor that was a solid trip
I have literally been wanting to get into bird phylogeny, and boom! This video! Even me, a person that has had an interest in birds for a decade or so now, learned things that I didn't know. Like, what do you mean Old World Orioles are their own separate group?! I have always seen them as thrushes! (probably due to them being placed beside them in the field guides...)
Super informative video! Definitely coming back for more!!! Love your presentation style too! Reminds me of Clint's Reptiles :)
May the winds of the algorithm blow ever in your favor
Agreed!
You are a very talented educator, that was fantastic to listen to!
P.S. proud to be the 421st subscriber 😊
I love the kind and excited energy you bring to this! Delighted to find this channel.
Fantastic video; very education, and I love your enthusiasm and energy!
I find that birds are one of the most fascinating group of creatures ever.
This video was MADE for me! I’ve been super absorbed with evolutionary biology recently, and just yesterday I was thinking I need to learn more about bird phylogeny. Subscribed!
I love this video, Your enthusiasm and energy were great. I particularly loved how you worked in explanations of general terms like how to read an evolutionary tree, convergent evolution, and radiation. Only idea for improvement would be a brief explanation of what evolutionary biologists consider when they assign species to a group, such as genetics, bone structures, fossils, etc. Great video, thanks again.
You are a great educator. Especially in science this is so important, keep doing this
Thanks for the encouragement Cloveis!
I am so happy to find this video. I've been wanting for quite some time now to learn more about the details of the bird family tree. I've watched this 2 times in a row just now.🐦🦆🦉🦅
Link to all images used in video: docs.google.com/document/d/1H-N4hDWKNErP1GbFzQy6Bt2c4Iu0oNTd9lTLcAl3yHE/edit?usp=sharing
The shape of the bird family tree depicted here is largely based on these sources.
Prum et al. 2015. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing.
www.nature.com/articles/nature15697
Stiller et al. 2024. Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07323-1
Kuhl et al. 2020. An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3′-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life.
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38/1/108/5891114?login=true
Houde et al. 2019. Phylogenetic Signal of Indels and the Neoavian Radiation.
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/11/7/108
Suh. 2016. The phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12213
Sources hype
Thank you, for the much needed topic of bird classification. Images with family name need to stay on screen for a longer time for us newbies to the subject.
Incredible video. Insanely well done and covering an overwhelmingly complex topic in such a clear way. I am currently in my apprenticeship to become a zookeeper and we obviously have to learn about all animals on the tree of life and birds tend to be the most difficult part for all apprentices and the biggest issue in the final exams. Thank you so much.
you have served your flock proud, brother
idk why RUclips showed me this video, but it's very good and you should keep making videos
I'm wearing a regent bowerbird shirt while I watch this, how pleased I was to see a picture of one pop up on screen! Great vid, ive thoroughly enjoyed. Laughed and learned
Thank you very much, you are a charismatic and charming host, great vid, very entertaining
Wasn’t much into birds before, now I have a burning passion. Great video keep it up!
I just wanna say: Wow & Thank you
Oh my god. You are the second most passionate bird person I've ever seen.
Truly It was like looking into a mirror😁
Subbed, liked, commented and shared - you are my spirit animal (Picathartes🤙)
I would have thought that cranes were more related to forklifts than rails, and that rails would be more closely related to I-beams. Shows what I know.
Excellent video sir, there aren’t a lot of videos on RUclips covering the phylogeny like this one.
thank you clint’s birds
Tip: the "-es" ending is always a normal, full syllable (well, it IS Latin) So, the ending -formes is 2 syllables. And AVES (birds) is 2 SYLLABLES, Neoaves are 4 sylls. Easy. (Neoaves is an awful word, being another of those new coinages which mix languages; Neos is GK for young, auis is Lit for bird..... tele is Gk for far, uisio is Lat for sight ...etc!)
^ OP is correct. i think besides adding the syllables, even scientists pronounce some groups differently so I wouldn’t sweat it too much unless you’re a latin major.
for a youtube video, I do think you should look up pronunciations beforehand though. I’m just trying to say the difference between saying “ehz” and eez” doesn’t matter much. Great video, though
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that was a very cool overview on the subject, well presented with an enthusiastic presentation, kudos! Greetings from Rio!
I live in Hawaii. Interacting with diverse bird species has made I nterested in learning more about birds. I know that, in several species I’ve dealt with firsthand (repopulation of endangered species, invasives, and domestics), fewer of them were needed to establish healthy breeding populations than mammals, pointing to different genetic mutation mechanisms or rates.
I bird-sat a Japanese White Eye rescued as a chick for several weeks. Learned some ways they communicate, especially the disapproval chirp. A White-Rumped Shama bird used this sound at me while I was doing yard work, and I knew to move from where I was squatting and cleaning up a planter-bed. When I was out of the way, she grabbed a huge centipede I unknowingly disturbed while cleaning! Crazy! Seems like these unrelated song birds have some sort of common language they use to communicate across species.
Also saw common signature behaviors in another two species: American crows (North America) and Common mynahs (Hawaii). They both hold “court”. They get in a group, start squabbling, then gang up on one of the members as though to punish them. Looks brutal.
Can’t find any information on these behaviors anywhere. Surprised there’s not more research on bird social behaviors.
That intro almost made me cry, it was so bad but clearly had full attempt behind it
Thanks for the great video! I loved the information, as well as your enthusiasm!
22:47 terror birds mentioned!!!
Supercool video!! Thanks! 🤩
Great video!!! I have been craving learning more about different phylogenies, this was fascinating!
Super good presentation. Keep it up man, can't wait to see more
This was great, Eric. Your video was suggested to me on RUclips after I curiously was searching on Google about the relatedness of chickens, turkeys, and peafowls. I was surprised, when I reached the end of your video, to discover that you only had 330 subscribers. Well, now you have 331!
I really thought the thumbnail was a bird bracket: a bracket of the best bird. I was excited to see
Absolute banger of a video.
This is fire dude, keep dropping! You got a new fan and sub
Hello distinguished individual! Lovely video!! Congratulations 🤟🏼💚💛❤️
Excellent Video and very informative!
Fascinating! You just got yourself a new subscriber.
Amazing video, I adore phylogeny videos
Thanks for making a video on this topic
Up to the top of the algo with you!
Great video, I hope we'll see more from you!
Loved this video! I've gotten into birdwatching recently and have always loved learning about phylogenetic trees :3 keep up the good work ♡
this is everything ive had a special interest in for years, throw in a transformer at the end and buddy i would have exploded! tysm for sharing this with us!
Thank you for your hard work!
Joining the choir of new subscribers!
Me too!
Please do one of these where you explain how theropods are related! You can start with birds, raptors, and troodontids and work from there!
Great video, great quality, great presentation, charisma, very thorough but not too dense or deep, I love it! I’m subscribed and excited to see more
Incredible video, but you should keep the images on screen longer when you’re listing families/species
Excellent lecture!
Such a cool video deserves way more views please make more !!
fascinating video! learned some things and loved everything about it!
You're such a cool guy. Idk why you only have 600 subscribers
Good explanation of propinquity! You are worth following
You're such an engaging speaker and educator! Great video! Please do a video about motmots! If not for the educational value, then the ultimate excuse to say motmot as much as possible!
Also, doobly-doo 😂😂😂
Honestly, the idea to make a motmot video solely for the purpose of saying motmot over and over is far more tempting then it should be.
This is a great educational video! Keep up the good work!👍
At the end of the video, I half-expected you to fly away.
About the hummingbirds evolving from a nightjar like form, do you think it could be convergence with butteflies? Butterflies' ancestors were also nocturnal like moths, but started spending more time being active at day due to predation from bats. Could owls or some other predator have been a similar pressure for hummingbirds to become diurnal?
I don't think that is an unreasonable hypothesis, but I do think that it would be very hard to prove. Given just how long ago swifts and hummingbirds broke off from other nocturnal relatives, I think the reason why they evolved to be diurnal might just be lost to time. But who knows, paleontologists can get very inventive with ways to learn new information, so maybe a solid reasoning will emerge one day.
I'm an amateur bird photographer in central america and I managed to snap a pic of a motmot the other day. I was surprised to see it fly into a hole in the ground though, was not expecting that at all!
Love this stuff! Very comprehensible
I LOVED this! Thank you. Now I want more ;)
This guy was great.
Amazing info!!! More images next time if possible :)
Very interesting! You're a natural born speaker
Actual classification starts at 6:22
You know your stuff! Good video!
You did my boy the Lyrebird dirty. Thanks for mentioning the Kaguu tho
Jokes aside this was simply fantastic, thank you!
The floor must have been lava fr when the swifts evolved
For a few seconds around the future site of Chicxulub, Mexico some 66 million years ago, it kinda was. And possibly as a result of that, that was also true in India at the same time.
Lets goooo new channel
Thank you. Helps out an aspiring birder quite a bit :) I still gotta learn anatomy tho
Nice video! Keep 'm coming!
Would have been interesting to see how birds fit into the Theropod family tree
Thank you! Amazing content!
Subscriber Nº 132!
You deserve so many more subs
Thanks for covering this! These seem to change a bit over the years as to what's related to what. Especially the placing of hawks away from eagles! I also seem to remember owls being placed closer to frogmouths and such like once. Sorry, I laughed after you wondered if you pronounced Opisthcomiformes correct but then pronounced Hoatzin wrong; the a is sounded ho-ah-tsin
It'd be cool to see a video going into more detail on passerine phylogeny
AMAZING!! please more tank
Another new subscriber here!
Wicked good video ;D
BIRD FAMILY TREE MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️
Love this video
Please leave the illustrating pictures up longer!
... much longer!
Watching you (going nowhere fast for a while) _while_ wearing the same DKNY 5646's... 😲
Didn't know that falcons are not closely related to hawks and eagles, that was interesting. 🙏
Actually The kingbird lends its name to the group: TYRRANOS is an archaic Greek word for KING. (And yes, the modern word tyrant comes from it- but the root word is just king.)
Enjoyed your romp through the Aves. At 28:38, your Indigo-bird appears to be an Indigo Bunting, in a different family of passerines. Indigo-birds live in Africa, while the Indigo Bunting is from North America.
Great vid!
I like this video! Your narration is great, but i wish there were more pictures up while you're talking so i can better relate what you're saying to what you're talking about.
When you go through the neoaves, i dont have enough time to find which category you're talking about before the image disappears.
Maybe im just dumb, but i want to learn.
love learning about birds, awesome video my guy
This is good, but I think you should revise the family tree of Neoaves, since by now we mostly know how these groups are related to one another. So for example hoatzins and gruiformes are more closely related to one another than to the others.
Actually the Gruiformes and Charadriiformes (gulls and shorebirds) are each other's closest relatives, though hoatzins did earlier split from the same lineage as them.
@@andyjay729 yes true, I was talking about the clades he presented în the video
For good science, I'm in...sub'd
12:26 for a second I thought that Grebes were related to Hesperornithines…
nice vid
Hey bird dude! Great video, I appreciate your enthusiasm and the information. I might be wrong, but i think it is /old/ world vultures who belong in the accipitre family, rather than the new, with their slender beaks and walking feet? Pardon me if wrong. I also might like it if the pics and phylo trees were up for a smudge longer and hair bigger (especially on niche birds or families that a well-informed amateur herself may not immediately know). Thanks for the content! Take care!
I think I see where the confusion is here. You are right, new world vultures are not in the family Accipitridae, but old world vultures are in that family. But, even though new world vultures are not in the family Accipitridae, they are inside of the larger clade Accipitrimorphae (which is what I display here). This broader clade includes the family Accipirtidae, New World Vultures, Secretaybirds, and Osprey. It sure can be confusing when these clade names all sound so similar!
If that still doesn't make much sense, here is a link to a video that covers this section of the tree in much greater detail then I was able to here.
ruclips.net/video/7xv3NLGO5do/видео.html
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