Sentences with phrase «major land bird»

As a result, Ksepka and colleagues estimate that the ancestors of some nine major land bird lineages — from mousebirds to owls to raptors like hawks and eagles — must have emerged in quick succession, all practically in the shadow of the extinction event.

Not exact matches

«Grazed lands play a major, essential role in grassland bird conservation in South America, and this important research reveals that specialized birds may be limited by habitat quality.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

This is also major stopover habitat, where migrating birds are not merely flying over, but landing and taking off — often during poor weather conditions.