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virtually nothing about genetics, and his pioneering work earned him a membership in the National Academy of Sciences.Hedges and Sibley collaborated on a number of research papers, but they remained particularly troubled by the flamingo. Even their early research, several years ago, suggested the flamingo was an odd bird indeed, closely related to the grebe. Strength in Numbers"It was really astonishing because there is no morphological trait that would even suggest that," Hedges says.Fast forward a few years, and there's Hedges, cleaning out his desk and glancing over his correspondence with Sibley. One note from the grand old man of ornithology noted that his former graduate student, John A. W. Kirsch, got the same result using an entirely different technique.