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	Birds, DNA, and Evolutionary Convergence
		Thus, the beautiful Australian fairy wrens are not related to our wrens at all, the nuthatch-like sittellas and tree-creepers are not related to nuthatches and creepers, and the red- and yellow-breasted Australian robins are not even thrushes.
		All in all, the Australian bird convergence is even more spectacular than the convergence of various marsupials with the placental mammals that dominate on all other continents -- after all the mammalian convergence was recognized early on, while the birds fooled biologists until very recently.
		Australian birds that are much more closely related to crows than to the groups indicated bytheir common names.
	www.stanford.edu /group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Birds,_DNA.html (1175 words)

	Birds of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In consequence, the unrelated birds that fill that niche in the Americas and in Australia look and act as though they are close relatives.
		Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, the HANZAB list for Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the surrounding ocean and islands.
		The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000, Garnett, Stephen T.; and Crowley, Gabriel M., Environment Australia, Canberra, 2000 ISBN 0-642-54683-5, a comprehensive survey of the conservation status of Australian species, with costed conservation and recovery strategies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_birds (585 words)

	Honeyeater
		Like their closest relatives, the Maluridae (Australian wrens), Pardalotidae (pardalotes and thornbills[?]), and Petroicidae (Australian robins), they originated as part of the great corvid radiation[?] in Australia/New Guinea (which were joined in a single landmass until quite recently, in geological terms).
		Although they look and behave very much like other nectar-feeding passerines around the world (such as the sunbirds[?] and flowerpeckers[?]), they are unrelated, and the similarities are the consequence of convergent evolution.
		A great many Australian plants are fertilised by honeyeaters, particularly the Proteacae[?], Myrtaceae[?], and Epacridacae[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ho/Honeyeater.html (540 words)

	News in Science - Native bird too smart for predatory cuckoo - 14/03/2003
		Wrens lay their eggs over about five days, and it is important for the cuckoo to lay her egg in the middle of this period.
		The researchers established that one of the triggers for a wren to abandon its young is a single chick in the nest.
		Australian fairy-wrens have a very long breeding season, which allows them the luxury of abandoning their chicks and starting again.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s805357.htm (658 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Maluridae
		Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the true wrens of the Northern Hemisphere.
		With further morphological work and the great strides made in DNA analysis towards the end of the 20th century, their position became clear: the Maluridae are one of the many families to have emerged from the great corvid radiation in Australasia.
		Their obvious similarity to the wrens of Europe and America is not genetic, but simply the consequence of convergent evolution between more-or-less unrelated species that share the same ecological niche.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Australian_wrens (380 words)

	Australian birds: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
		...Australian birds Australian birds Australia has about 800 species of bird,...seem familiar - Australian wrens look and act very like northern hemisphere wrens, Australian...relatives of the northern hemisphere robins - but in fact the majority of Australian passerine...
		Examples include wrens, robins, Magpies, thornbills[?], pardalotes, the huge honeyeater family, treecreepers, lyrebirds, birds of paradise and bowerbirds.
	www.encyclopedian.com /au/Australian-native-birds.html (413 words)

	Softbills
		Many softbills are very small birds, such as the fairy wrens (many softbills weigh less than 20 grams, some less than 10 grams, some 7 grams or less!!), so any health issues have to be undertaken with a degree of urgency and the need to have rapid access to a avian veterinarian is an advantage.
		Wrens should never be housed in a bare aviary devoid of adequate cover.
		CAUTION: Wrens are very small birds so care must be taken to ensure the wire mesh or cage front is not too wide to allow any birds, including the young, to escape or get their head stuck.
	www.birdcare.com.au /softbills.htm (3046 words)

	Cuckoos warned: don't mess with the superb fairy wren - smh.com.au
		In the war between cuckoos and the birds they trick into raising their young, Australia's superb fairy wrens have turned out to be the smartest of the lot.
		Dr Langmore, with British colleagues, discovered superb fairy wrens were the exception to the rule by studying more than 200 of their nests in Canberra's Campbell Park.
		The fact that the breeding season for wrens in Australia is much longer than for birds troubled by cuckoos in Europe may explain why it is worthwhile for the Australian wrens to re-nest and attempt a second family.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/13/1047431151091.html (433 words)

	SCU \| Centre for Animal Conservation Genetics
		IRG - "Molecular Phylogeny of Australian Wrens" - 1994.
		IRG - "Molecular Phylogeny of Australian Wrens" 1995.
		IRG - “Molecular Phylogeny of Australian Wrens” - 1996-1997.
	www.scu.edu.au /research/cacg/grants.html (555 words)

	Wrens - definition from Biology-Online.org
		blue wren, a small Australian singing bird (Malurus cyaneus), the male of which in the breeding season is bright blue.
		Wren babbler, any one of numerous species of small timaline birds belonging to Alcippe, Stachyris, Timalia, and several allied genera.
		Wren warbler, any one of several species of small Asiatic and african singing birds belonging to Prinia and allied genera.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Wrens (307 words)

	Biology
		I currently am involved in a study of sexual selection and mating strategies in cooperative breeding Australian fairy-wrens, in collaboration with Stephen Pruett-Jones, my post-doctoral advisor at the University of Chicago, Mike Webster of Washington State University, and Elaina Tuttle of Indiana State University.
		Each wren represented on this gel was genotyped at three microsatellite loci, represented by blue, green, and yellow bands.
		Genetic similarity between female splendid fairy-wrens and their social mates as a function of the level of promiscuity of the female.
	www.oberlin.edu /biology/faculty/tarvin/wren.html (420 words)

	Australian Systematic Botany Society
		To be sure, Mayr had pointed out that an Australian cuckoo-shrike here and a whistler there had established itself in South-East Asia; but to think that whole groups of Eurasian vertebrates, such as its front-fanged snakes and song bird families, could have stemmed from Australian ancestors was thinking the unthinkable.
		One part was the northern rim of the Australian plate itself and the other a string of islands off the north-east coast, away from Laurasia.
		Thus the Australasian flycatchers are not related to Eurasian flycatchers but to Australian butcherbirds and cuckoo-shrikes; and the Australian wrens and warblers are not related to their namesakes in Eurasia, but to the Australasian honeyeaters and robins.
	www.anbg.gov.au /asbs/newsletter/burbidge-1989.html (5761 words)

	The Australian Bird Bander
		The establishment of the Cape Woolamai Banding Station is an event of some importance to Australian ornithology.
		Dr Serventy's station at Fisher Island has, of course, functioned for 20 years, but that is a specialised project established for the study of a single species.
		Cape Woolamai promises to be the first Australian bird observatory in the style of the British coastal bird observatories, and appears admirably situated for the study of migration - a long-felt want in Australia.
	www.absa.asn.au /Abstracts/ABBvol5.html (1021 words)

	Getting their own back on cuckoos: Australian fairy-wrens have the last laugh
		A team of scientists from Cambridge University and Bristol University, led by Dr Naomi Langmore of the Australian National University, has found that some Australian birds are one step ahead of their British counterparts in their ability to avoid being victimized by cuckoos.
		"One possibility is that the Australian breeding season is longer, meaning that birds have more to gain from abandoning a breeding attempt at such a late stage.
		Australian birds have plenty of time for renesting which simply isn’t available to the British hosts".
	innovations-report.com /html/reports/life_sciences/report-17233.html (413 words)

	Bird families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Schizorhinal (or holorhinal, Egyptian plover), impervious nostrils, culmen curved, tarsus transversely scutellate fore and aft.
		Social organization variable, cooperative parental care and extra-group matings (perhaps as much as 100% of fertilizations are by a male in another social group) in species where social behavior has been observed.
		Australian Region including New Guinea and New Zealand, Gerygone to Malaya and the Philippines.
	www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu /birds/birddivresources/families.html (9999 words)

	Variegated Fairy-wren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The depth and variety of colours in the male varies among the four subspecies, distributed across the Australian mainland.
		Non-breeding males, females and young birds are brownish grey.
		Females in the Northern Territory and Western Australian populations have a blue-grey (rather than brown-grey) plumage.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/variegated_fairywren.htm (313 words)

	Australian National Botanic Gardens - Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The gardens are on Clunies-Ross St. in Acton at Q1 on UBD map 58 (35 16 45 S; 149 06 33 E).
		Australian Ravens, Superb Fairy-wrens and Australian Wood-ducks may also be nearby.
		Follow the main path through the eucalypt lawn, the lower side of the lawn area is good for Australian Magpie, Grey Fantail and perhaps Gang-Gangs.
	canberrabirds.org.au /PocketGuide/ANBG.htm (304 words)

	reviews of divine art 25017 Blue Wrens
		Blue Wrens was recorded at the Melba Hall, The University of Melbourne, and all works performed are published by the Keys Press, 66 Clotilde Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia 6050.
		Trevor Barnard, another British-born and -trained musician, is an established figure in Australian musical life, as a performer, teacher and writer.
		Contemporary Australian music is little known in the UK, and this CD gives us a chance to get the flavour by featuring a selection of the piano music of five Australian composers.
	www.divine-art.com /CD/rev25017.htm (1573 words)

	Australian Portfolio
		The billabong in front of Mt Borradaile is an outstanding wetland and commonly seen are egrets, ibis, herons, duck, jacanas, forest kingfishers, kites, sea eagles and geese.
		On savanna walks expect to see – tree creepers, cuckoo-shrikes, honeyeaters, red-winged parrots, red-backed wrens to name a few.
		Australian Portfolio – offer Australia safari tours, Luxury wildlife tour and Adventure holidays in Australia.
	www.australianportfolio.com /accommodation/davidson.htm (563 words)

	Overcoming Seed Dormancy By Animal Ingestion
		The Native Currant (Acrotriche depressa) and Honeypots (Acrotriche serrulata) belong to an interesting group of Australian heath plants called the epacrids.Little is known about the pollination and reproduction of epacrids with seventy-eight species regarded as poorly known in Australia.
		Both species produce fruit, nectar and pollen that provide a food source for many different native animals so would be valuable inclusions in revegetation efforts.The Native Currant is used to make jam on Kangaroo Island and could be used as a possible native food crop if it were easier to grow.
		Thornbills, honeyeaters, possums and Antechinus also eat nectar from these plants.The berries produced by Honeypots and Native Currant are eaten by Australian wrens, quail thrushes, silvereyes, honeyeaters and parrots among other birds.
	www.faunarescue.org.au /seeddorm.html (579 words)

	Open Garden with Australian native plants and accommodation in the Yarra Valley, Dandenongs, Melbourne, Australia
		These were planted, then Bob, in particular, developed a strong interest in the Australian flora and quickly added more Australian plants and a "few" more gum trees.
		Bob learnt how to propogate the Australian plants and soon the garden was doubled in size.
		Visitors are able to wander the gardens, filming the plants or identifying some of the 75 bird species which have been recorded in the gardens over the past few years.
	www.katandragardens.com.au /gardens.html (535 words)

	Welcome to the University of Chicago Magazine Online
		Working out of an office that comfortably accommodates a border collie named Mik, vases of bird feathers, and an inflatable southern hairy-nosed wombat, the 45-year-old zoologist says such questions follow his broader line of inquiry into the evolution of animals' social behavior and their mating systems.
		He also plans to expand this year his ongoing studies of the mating rituals of the Australian fairy-wrens and of the dark-winged damselfly.
		With the mysteries of the monk parakeet awaiting him, Pruett-Jones, who holds a Ph.D. in zoology from Berkeley, returns this month from a field study of his primary winged subject: the Australian fairy-wrens.
	magazine.uchicago.edu /9810/html/invest2.htm (1052 words)

	SCU Graduate Research College \| Research Grants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Australian Biological Resources Study - "Speciation in Australian Bats - a Genetic Perspective" - 1980-1981 (with C.H.S. Watts).
		Australian Museum Trust - "Biochemical Systematics of Papua New Guinea Vertebrates" - 1986.
		Australian Museum Trust - "Collection of Frozen Tissues from the Madang Region" - 1987.
	www.scu.edu.au /research/grc/index.php?pid=76&cat=0&subcat= (882 words)

	What happens after September?
		October of course, sorry to be so quick with the next piece, but I am going away into the bush for a week.
		This means I will get a chance to look at and take pictures of some of the beautiful Western Australian wildflowers.
		Flowering trees and shrubs, most of them natives, dominate this garden of ours and they provide a haven for a lot of bird life.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/australian_gardening/48998 (433 words)

	13 March 2003: Getting their own back on cuckoos: Australian fairy-wrens have the last laugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The superb fairy wren (10g) is a common garden bird in south eastern Australia.
		It lives in social groups of one female with up to four males,all of whom help feed the young.
		At 21 g, the Australian Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo is a fraction of the size of the British common cuckoo (110g).
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/press/dpp/2003031301 (513 words)

	Bird Bibliography Part 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Corvida, Corvoidea: Australian Endemics (Australian Robins, Logrunners, and Babblers; Quail-thrush; Australian Choughs; Thick-heads and Sitellas);
		The relationships of the New Zealand wrens (Acanthisittidae) as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization.
		Phylogeny and historical aspects of the ecology of eastern Australian scrubwrens: evidence from mitochondrial DNA.
	www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu /birds/birddivresources/bibliog3.html (10428 words)

	Petroicidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sibley and Alquist's DNA-DNA hybridisation studies put them in the "Corvoidea" (a huge group that includes the shrikes, crows and jays, butcherbirds, woodswallows, drongos, cuckoo-shrike, fantails, monarch flycatchers and many others), but this superfamily has been proven to be paraphyletic.
		suggest that they be placed with the Meliphagoidea - the superfamily that includes the honeyeaters, Australian wrens, Pardalotes, and thornbills and itself derives from the great Australasian corvid radiation.
		Please help improve this article by expanding this section.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_robin (391 words)

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