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MLoyko
Thursday 30th July 2009, 06:01
Not sure if this belongs in this forum so if not could an admin move it please?

Saw this article just now when I went to check my email>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090730/sc_livescience/newfoundbirdisbald

Pretty interesting I thought

-Matt
Frenchy
Thursday 30th July 2009, 07:17
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090730/sc_livescience/newfoundbirdisbald

-Matt

A quote that appears in that article - "More famous examples of bald-headed birds are turkeys and bald eagles, though the species are not related to the new bulbul"

Priceless!
antshrike69
Thursday 30th July 2009, 07:20
Hysterical! Or maybe I'm less up to date with taxonomy than I thought....
Richard Klim
Thursday 30th July 2009, 08:53
Also discussed here:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=113411 (posts 137-142)
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=146585

Richard
tony.saw
Thursday 30th July 2009, 09:45
Hi
With regard to the bare faced bulbul, the following has just been uploaded to the OBC web site
http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/news/BulbulNewsRelease.pdf
http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/news/WoxvoldDuckworthTimmins-Bulbul.pdf

Tony
MLoyko
Thursday 30th July 2009, 16:21
A quote that appears in that article - "More famous examples of bald-headed birds are turkeys and bald eagles, though the species are not related to the new bulbul"

Priceless!

I saw that too LOL and the eagle isn't even Bald soooooo :-O
Arbu
Thursday 30th July 2009, 17:51
A quote that appears in that article - "More famous examples of bald-headed birds are turkeys and bald eagles, though the species are not related to the new bulbul"

Priceless!
Maybe it's related to the bald uakari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Uakari)?
Allen S. Moore
Thursday 30th July 2009, 18:59
Maybe it's related to the bald uakari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Uakari)?

Parallel evolution?
Birdingcraft
Friday 31st July 2009, 15:07
Maybe it's related to the bald uakari (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Uakari)?

Yes, that must be it's sister taxon. Upon investigation of the distinctive "bald head" that obviously demonstrates a shared a common ancestor, I would have to say that Patrick Stewart could be the missing link between these two fascinating species.