touracos

Their most exciting conclusion was that rampant convergence had occurred between these two parallel radiations: metavians include hoatzins, mesites and grebes, while coronavians include turacos, passerines and divers, for example (if those lists are lost on you, hoatzins are similar to touracos, mesites are similar to some passerines, and grebes are similar to divers).

Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006

Their most exciting conclusion was that rampant convergence had occurred between these two parallel radiations: metavians include hoatzins, mesites and grebes, while coronavians include turacos, passerines and divers, for example (if those lists are lost on you, hoatzins are similar to touracos, mesites are similar to some passerines, and grebes are similar to divers).

Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

Musophagidae (touracos) did not surprise me, those who "knew" Darren from then DML will remember him talking about Chandler (1997).

Terror birds Darren Naish 2006

Tyrannosaurs, terror birds, touracos and tamanduas: the hottest news in vertebrate palaeontology.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Unidentified owls on the Mascarenes, the Andaman and Nicobar islands; a black, long-tailed passerine, notable for its startling rattle-like call, from Goodenough Island in the D’Entrecastaeux Archipelago; mystery African gallinules and touracos; a Kenyan long-tailed passerine with reddish undertail-coverts; an all-black Kenyan swift (Ali & Ripley 1969, Williams & Arlott 1980, Beehler 1991, Shuker 1998).

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006