Cunningham, Susan J.; Corfield, Jeremy R.; Iwaniuk, Andrew N.; Castro, Isabel; Alley, Maurice R.; Birkhead, Tim R.; Parsons, Stuart
(Public Library of ScienceArts and ScienceDepartment of NeuroscienceUniversity of Cape TownMassey UniversityUniversity of LethbridgeUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of Auckland, 2013)
Three families of probe-foraging birds, Scolopacidae (sandpipers and snipes), Apterygidae (kiwi), and
Threskiornithidae (ibises, including spoonbills) have independently evolved long, narrow bills containing clusters ...