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Several studies have been done on drinking patterns and behaviour of birds in the field and in the laboratory. The main species involved are doves, sandgrouse and other obligate seedeaters, as well as some frugivorous/nectarivorous species such as mousebirds and honeyeaters. Although doves and sandgrouse have similar drinking patterns, their systematic relationship with one another is somewhat distant; they are products of convergent evolution (Maclean 1967a) and make for an interesting comparison with each other and with the equally convergent seedsnipes (Thinocoridae) of South America (Maclean 1969a), which have been shown to be charadriiforms (Sibley et al. 1968) most closely related to the Scolopacidae (Sibley and Monroe 1990).
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Maclean, G.L. (1996). Water (1): Drinking. In: Ecophysiology of Desert Birds. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60981-7_4
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