The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance – molecular calibrations versus the fossil record

Strong mitochondrial DNA support for a Cretaceous origin of modern avian lineages

(2012) Joseph W Brown et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

A new passerine bird from the early Oligocene of Poland

(2011) Zbigniew M. Bocheński et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

(2011) K. A. Jonsson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Role of Carbon Dioxide During the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation

(2011) M. Pagani et al.   SCIENCE

The phylogeny of charadriiform birds (shorebirds and allies) - reassessing the conflict between morphology and molecules

(2011) GERALD MAYR   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A record of Rhynchaeites (Aves, Threskiornithidae) from the early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark, and the affinities of the alleged parrot Mopsitta

(2011) Gerald Mayr et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand

(2010) Trevor H. Worthy et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

(2009) Joel Cracraft   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The Waipounamu Erosion Surface: questioning the antiquity of the New Zealand land surface and terrestrial fauna and flora

(2008) C. A. LANDIS et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Passerine diversity in the late Oligocene of Germany: earliest evidence for the sympatric coexistence of Suboscines and Oscines

(2008) ALBRECHT MANEGOLD   IBIS

Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds

(2008) J. Harshman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE