This link is to a paper describing two Miocene bird fossils from New Zealand. One of them is an owlet-nightjar but the other is to a remarkably obscure bird that it closest to a mousebird and placed in a new family of uncertain relationships. Pity it didn't make it through to modern times.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 22-01981-6
Ian
An interesting new fossil bird from New Zealand
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