We finally got to the TAXONOMY episode. Join me as we explain what taxonomy is, how it works, and how we use it to arrange a big old family tree that contains every bird and maps how they're all related to each other. It's an overview of bird family tree from the dinosaurs to today.

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Notes:

• Bird Taxonomy: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species
• Morphology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(biology)
• Convergent Evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
• Therapod: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda
• Feathered dinosaurs: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-among-us/feathers
• Opposite birds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiornithes
• Neoaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoaves
• Hoatzin: https://ebird.org/species/hoatzi1