Columbaves is a clade that contains

Columbimorphae Columbimorphae is a clade discovered by genome analysis that includes birds of the orders Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pterocliformes Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family (biology), family of sixteen species of bird ...

(pigeons, mesites, and sandgrouse) and

Otidimorphae The Otidimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the orders Cuculiformes (cuckoos), Musophagiformes (turacos), and Otidiformes (bustards) identified in 2014 by genome analysis. While the bustards seem to be related to the turaco The tura ...

(bustards, cuckoos, and turacos) discovered by genomic analysis by Prum ''et al''. (2015).Prum, R. O. et al. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature (2015). This conflicts with the

Columbea Columbea is a clade suggested by genome analysis that contains Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclidae (sandgrouse), Mesitornithidae (mesites) and Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes). Until their recent placement as the sister taxon to ...

and Otidae hypotheses which

Mirandornithes Mirandornithes () is a clade that consists of flamingos and grebes. Many scholars use the term Phoenicopterimorphae for the superorder containing flamingoes and grebes. Determining the relationships of both groups has been problematic. Flamingos ...

are the sister taxon to

and Cypselomorphae the sister taxon to

, respectively, found by Jarvis et al. (2014). Neither hypothesis supports the two subdivisions of

Metaves Metaves ("other birds") is a controversial group proposed by Fain & Houde (2004) and later rescued on the studies of Ericson ''et al.'' (2006)Ericson, P.G.P. ''et al.'' (2006Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and f ...

and Coronoaves as previous studies had found. In 2020 Kuhl ''et al''. sequenced 3-prime untranslated region (3’UTR) from 429 species and 379 genera of birds found support of Columbaves in their study. However they have found that cuckoos are the sister group to pigeons within Columbimorphae instead as shown in the cladogram below:

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