Hey guys! Im Matt, bird enthusiast from New Zealand! This episode is all about the most ancient lineage of surviving New Zealand birds!
Follow me on instagram: matt.rossella
Become a blurb bro (a.k.a supporting the project) by contributing at https://www.patreon.com/blurbs439
If you want to know where I got my information, please see below!
References:
Ericson, P. G., Christidis, L., Cooper, A., Irestedt, M., Jackson, J., Johansson, U. S., & Norman, J. A. (2002). A Gondwanan origin of passerine birds supported by DNA sequences of the endemic New Zealand wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 269(1488), 235-241.
Manegold, A. (2009). The early fossil record of perching birds (Passeriformes). Palaeont. Afr., 44, 103-107.
Mayr, G., & Manegold, A. (2006). New specimens of the earliest European passeriform bird. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 51(2).
Mitchell, K. J., Wood, J. R., Llamas, B., McLenachan, P. A., Kardailsky, O., Scofield, R. P., ... & Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 102, 295-304.
McNab, B. K., & Weston, K. A. (2020). Does the New Zealand rockwren (Xenicus gilviventris) hibernate?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(9), jeb212126.
Oliveros, C. H., Field, D. J., Ksepka, D. T., Barker, F. K., Aleixo, A., Andersen, M. J., ... & Faircloth, B. C. (2019). Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(16), 7916-7925.
Sibley, C. G., Williams, G. R., & Ahlquist, J. E. (1982). The relationships of the New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization.
Worthy, T. H., Hand, S. J., Nguyen, J. M., Tennyson, A. J., Worthy, J. P., Scofield, R. P., ... & Archer, M. (2010). Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(2), 479-498.
Verry, A. J., Scarsbrook, L., Scofield, R. P., Tennyson, A. J., Weston, K. A., Robertson, B. C., & Rawlence, N. J. (2019). Who, where, what, wren? Using ancient DNA to examine the veracity of museum specimen data: a case study of the New Zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 496.
Books used for research:
A mini guide to the identification of New Zealand’s land birds - Andrew Crowe
Birdstories - Geoff Norman
Flight of the Huia - Kerry-Jayne Wilson
Know your New Zealand birds - Murdoch Riley
New Zealand native birds of bush and countryside - Penguin books
The Brilliance of Birds - Skye Wishart and Edin Whitehead
See you in the next episode! Thanks for listening!
- Matt
Hey guys! Im Matt, bird enthusiast from New Zealand! This episode is all about the most ancient lineage of surviving New Zealand birds!
Follow me on instagram: matt.rossella
Become a blurb bro (a.k.a supporting the project) by contributing at https://www.patreon.com/blurbs439
If you want to know where I got my information, please see below!
References:
Ericson, P. G., Christidis, L., Cooper, A., Irestedt, M., Jackson, J., Johansson, U. S., & Norman, J. A. (2002). A Gondwanan origin of passerine birds supported by DNA sequences of the endemic New Zealand wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 269(1488), 235-241.
Manegold, A. (2009). The early fossil record of perching birds (Passeriformes). Palaeont. Afr., 44, 103-107.
Mayr, G., & Manegold, A. (2006). New specimens of the earliest European passeriform bird. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 51(2).
Mitchell, K. J., Wood, J. R., Llamas, B., McLenachan, P. A., Kardailsky, O., Scofield, R. P., ... & Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 102, 295-304.
McNab, B. K., & Weston, K. A. (2020). Does the New Zealand rockwren (Xenicus gilviventris) hibernate?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(9), jeb212126.
Oliveros, C. H., Field, D. J., Ksepka, D. T., Barker, F. K., Aleixo, A., Andersen, M. J., ... & Faircloth, B. C. (2019). Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(16), 7916-7925.
Sibley, C. G., Williams, G. R., & Ahlquist, J. E. (1982). The relationships of the New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization.
Worthy, T. H., Hand, S. J., Nguyen, J. M., Tennyson, A. J., Worthy, J. P., Scofield, R. P., ... & Archer, M. (2010). Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30(2), 479-498.
Verry, A. J., Scarsbrook, L., Scofield, R. P., Tennyson, A. J., Weston, K. A., Robertson, B. C., & Rawlence, N. J. (2019). Who, where, what, wren? Using ancient DNA to examine the veracity of museum specimen data: a case study of the New Zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 496.
Books used for research:
A mini guide to the identification of New Zealand’s land birds - Andrew Crowe
Birdstories - Geoff Norman
Flight of the Huia - Kerry-Jayne Wilson
Know your New Zealand birds - Murdoch Riley
New Zealand native birds of bush and countryside - Penguin books
The Brilliance of Birds - Skye Wishart and Edin Whitehead
See you in the next episode! Thanks for listening!
- Matt