The Tree of Avian Evolution
What you read in the next few minutes might surprise you. It did for me, even as a lover of the study of biology and an avid birder.
As Eliot Miller stated in Living Bird (magazine presented by Cornell Lab), “Evolution works in somewhat mysterious ways.” Two birds that look alike, could be separated by millions of years on the evolutionary scale. The same goes for birds that are close evolutionary cousins, living on opposite ends of our planet…