There have been a few interesting things written on parrots lately. The first is about the origins of the two goups of African parrots, one from Australia, and includes New Zealand and Pacific groups in the tree. pdf
The second suggests that parrots are closely related to songbirds and suggests that this may be why they have a capacity vocal learning. PDF
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Re: Parrots
Sorry Neil.
Technologically challenged, try these then
1. http://www.fishecology.ch/publikationen ... ylEvol.pdf
2.http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2 ... ms1448.pdf
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Technologically challenged, try these then
1. http://www.fishecology.ch/publikationen ... ylEvol.pdf
2.http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2 ... ms1448.pdf
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Re: Parrots
Interesting. Nestor (kaka and kea) is shown as a sister group to all the other parrots, out by themselves (kakapo wasn't analysed). The NZ parakeets are in a group with New Caledonian and Australian genera, seems to make sense.