Hieraves is a clade of
telluravianbirds named by Wu et al. (2024) that includes the orders
Strigiformes (owls),
Cathartiformes (New World vultures), and
Accipitriformes (hawks and their relatives).[1] In the past, either owls, New World vultures, and hawks were found to be basal outgroups with respect to
Coraciimorphae inside
Afroaves,[2][3] or Accipitriformes and Cathartiformes were recovered as a basal clade in respect to the rest of the members of Telluraves.[4] Houde and Braun (2019) found support for Hieraves (then unnamed), but they were found to be the sister group to Coraciimorphae and
Australaves.[5] The analysis of Wu et al. (2024) has found Hieraves to be the sister clade to Australaves.[1]
^Prum, Richard O.; Berv, Jacob S.; Dornburg, Alex; Field, Daniel J.; Townsend, Jeffrey P.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R. (2015). "A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing". Nature. 526 (7574): 569–573.
Bibcode:
2015Natur.526..569P.
doi:
10.1038/nature15697.
ISSN0028-0836.
PMID26444237.
S2CID205246158.