Telluraves Telluraves Telluraves (also called land birds or core landbirds) is a recently defined clade of birds with controversial content. Based on most recent genetic studies, the clade unites a variety of bird groups, including the australavians (passerines, parrots, seriamas, and falcons) as well as the afroavians (including the Accipitrimorphae – eagles, hawks, buzzards, vultures etc – owls and woodpeckers, among others). They appear to be the sister group of a newly defined clade centered on Aequornithes. Given that the most basal extant members of both Afroaves (Accipitrimorphae, Strigiformes) and Australaves (Cariamiformes, Falconiformes) are carnivorous, it has been suggested that the
Killing Birds Killing Birds Killing Birds is a 1988 Italian horror film filmed in Louisiana and starring Lara Wendel and Robert Vaughn. It was co-produced by "Flora Film" and Joe D'Amato's "Filmirage". The director's credit reads "Claude Milliken", which is the pseudonym of Claudio Lattanzi, but according to most accounts, the film was completely or almost completely directed by Joe D'Amato in Lattanzi's presence. Theatrically, the film was released in Italy as "Killing Birds" in 1988 and in France as "L'attaque des morts-vivants". On home video, it was released in Italy and Germany as Killing Birds: Raptors and in the United States