Talk:Mesite

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Galliformes? What reference links mesites and Galliformes? There is some new research suggesting they may be related to cuckoos, but I have not found anything that does link them with galliforms. Dysmorodrepanis 17:48, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

That would be the HBW, I think. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but they are not Galloanserae! I have changed it to "Gruiformes (disputed)" (as per HBW). Dysmorodrepanis 01:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Clarification needed

The first paragraph includes the unsourced sentence "They are the only family with more than two species in which every species is threatened (all three are listed as vulnerable)." I have just added a clarification tag to this. To clarify my request for clarification: I am not disputing the IUCN classifications of the three species, which is evident on the individual species' respective articles - but some additional qualification is clearly needed in the first part of that statement, e.g. "the only family of birds" (I have no idea if this is true), or "the only family residing entirely south of the equator" (this doesn't seem likely either), or "the only family in the clade columbimorphae", etc. as appropriate. I know they aren't the only family with more than two threatened species and no unthreatened ones among all the amniotes; for example, the closest family to our own, namely the gibbons, consists of the vulnerable eastern hoolock gibbon and seventeen endangered or critically endangered other species. So with regard to the statement in question: the only family among which families? Adam Dent (talk) 09:15, 22 February 2021 (UTC)