-
shown to
other sunbitterns in
courtship and
threat displays, or used to
startle potential predators. Male and
female adult sunbitterns can be differentiated...
- Coraciiformes)
Dippers (family
Cinclidae within order P****eriformes)
Sunbitterns (family
Eurypygidae within order Eurypygiformes) The
evolution of waterbirds...
- clades:
Telluraves (landbirds)
Aequornithes (waterbirds)
Eurypygimorphae (
sunbittern, kagu and tropicbirds)
Otidimorphae (turacos,
bustards and cuckoos) Strisores...
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2023). "Kagu,
Sunbittern, tropicbirds, loons, penguins".
World Bird List
Version 13.1. International...
-
adzebills from New
Zealand and the
sunbittern from
Central and
South America.
Recent studies do
indicate that the
sunbittern is the
closest living relative...
- JSTOR 4600164. Thomas,
Betsy Trent;
Strahl (1
August 1990). "Nesting
Behavior of
Sunbitterns (Eurypyga helias) in Venezuela" (PDF). The Condor. 92 (3): 576–581. doi:10...
-
Phaethontimorphae Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)
Eurypygiformes (kagus and
sunbitterns)
Aequornithes Gaviiformes (loons or divers)
Sphenisciformes (penguins)...
- Gruiformes. The
suborder Eurypygae includes the kagu (Rhynochetidae) and
sunbittern (Eurypygidae).
These are not even
remotely related to Grues. The families...
- (waterfowl).
Based on a whole-genome
analysis of the bird orders, the kagu and
sunbittern (Eurypygiformes) and the
three species of
tropicbirds (Phaethontiformes)...
-
Phaethontimorphae Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)
Eurypygiformes (kagus and
sunbitterns)
Aequornithes Gaviiformes (loons or divers)
Sphenisciformes (penguins)...
