Hello! Your submission of Choiseul Pigeon at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. I've had a look through the excellent expansion you have done for Choiseul Pigeon - what an interesting article! Just to let you know that I'm not too sure about the license on the image so I have asked Crisco to double check it. SagaciousPhil - Chat11:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, could you swap the image in the template as per Crisco's suggestion, please? As soon as you can get that done I will give the nomination an approval tick. Thanks! SagaciousPhil - Chat06:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
LOL James A. Jobling (2010) The Helm dictionary of scientific bird names Published by Christopher Helm, an imprint of A&C Black Publishers Ltd, London ISBN978-1-4081-2501-4. p396 Uratelornis Gr. oura tail; genus Atelornis Pucheran, 1846, ground-roller, p58 Atelornis Gr. ateles indeterminate, incomplete; ornis bird.
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On 9 May 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sulu Bleeding-heart, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that though the Sulu Bleeding-heart has not been definitively seen since 1891, there is still hope that it is not extinct? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sulu Bleeding-heart. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
I don't usually write about pigeons, but stumbled upon the once when researching Pigeon pie. Since you work in this area often, feel free to award it to other pigeon/dove focused Wikipedians! Sadads (talk) 01:31, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for sharing your interest in birds, flying or flightless, living or extinct, such as the Great Auk. Amazing that you even take the name of a bird ;) Your exclusive dedication to quality content deserves to name you an awesome Wikipedian!!
Thank you for today's Long-tailed ground roller, "an elusive bird that is found only in a small area of Madagascar's spiny forest. It digs nesting burrows in the sand and is so unobtrusive that the locals used to believe that the species hibernated."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:37, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I just removed an information on Crested Shelduck: the wingspan was said to be about 31-32 cm, which seems aberrant to me. Do you have any idea how to address this problem? The source would be Madge, Steve; Burn, Hilary (1988). Waterfowl: an Identification Guide to the Ducks, Geese, and Swans of the World. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN0-395-46727-6.. Best regards, Totodu74 (talk) 09:37, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Totodu74:, a specialist birdguide like Waterfowl would not provide "wingspan", it must be wing length - which is measured from the bend of the wing to the tip of the longest primary. I would think only the text "wingspan" needs to be changed to "wing length". I could check it later. Shyamal (talk) 15:20, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear friend, it is clear from reference Cell.Mol.Life Sciences (2001), vol 58, pages 1159-1166, that what it was stated about Long-tailed rosefinch taxonomy is right. Please look at trees in fig 2, and figs 3A and 3B. We have reverted your deletion. Please, contact me if you have any doubt. Philly93 (talk) 18:12, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The white-necked rockfowl is a medium-sized bird in the familyPicathartidae, mainly found in fragmented groups in rocky forested areas at higher altitudes in West Africa from Guinea to Ghana. The rockfowl typically chooses to live near streams and inselbergs. It has greyish-black upperparts and white underparts. Its unusually long, dark brown tail is used for balance. The head is nearly featherless, with the exposed skin being bright yellow except for two large, circular black patches located just behind the eyes. These rockfowl feed primarily on insects, though parents feed small frogs to their young. Rockfowl move through the forest primarily through a series of hops and bounds or short flights in low vegetation. This species rarely flies for long distances. This species is classified as Vulnerable as it is threatened by habitat destruction; conservation efforts are underway in parts of its range. Some of the indigenous peoples of Sierra Leone considered the species to be a protector of the home of their ancestral spirits. This rockfowl is considered one of Africa’s most desirable birds by birders and is a symbol of ecotourism across its range. (Full article...)
You (and your talk-page stalkers) may also be interested to hear that there have been some changes at the TFA requests page recently. Nominators no longer need to calculate how many "points" an article has, the instructions have been simplified, and there's a new nomination system using templates based on those used for DYK suggestions. Please consider nominating another article, or commenting on an existing nomination, and leaving some feedback on your experience. Thank you. UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 17 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Choiseul Pigeon (which I renominated after you disappeared) is now on the front page, so I took the liberty to check your contributions, since you haven't been here for a long time, and noticed you had recently edited. Are you back? FunkMonk (talk) 11:06, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Capitalization of Adjective Rufous and noun Sparrow - Question and Thoughts on Proper Noun with Adjective
Hello Rufous-crowned Sparrow,
Given your use of capitalization of Rufous-crowned Sparrow for your user name give me a hint and perception that you would like to see bird names capitalized and that you consider bird names as proper nouns.
Am I correct in my perception and hint of this suggestion?
My opinion is that bird names are proper nouns and require capitalization, yet I must adhere to the MOS rules of Wikipedia. I am learning to live with this rule.
I take great pleasure and calm that the trend is to use capitalization, as I see this pattern occurring in birding magazines and that AOU (AOS) and the committee that makes names believes this to be correct, to consider bird names as proper nouns.
A few years ago, I was beginning my education toward obtaining a journalism certifivate at a college, and in my first class, I learned of the rules in journalism with newspapers that bird names cannot be capitalized. The exception is if the bird is name for a political geography place such as California, in California condor. And there is second exception when a bird has a person name in the adjective as in Anna in Anna's hummingbird.
I remain frustrated that they do not capitalize California Condor or Anna's Hummingbird, or Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
And yet I was able to use capitalization in my writing to you, and you are allowed to use capitalization in your User name.
The glass ceiling is cracking ever so slowly, but is cracked with regard to rule of using lower-case letters and spelling of proper nouns.
So glad there is no movement to making the names of our states and countries as lower case, since those are not really proper nouns, so I can write to you and write california in lower case letter and I can write to you and use united states of america or usa if I wish to do so, and you can write back to me with the use of lower case letters for california and usa.
I have rambled on a fair bit now. And I apologize if you do not like what I have written to you, and I will not write again to you, but my perception is that you may like what I have written and are going to share your thoughts and opinions with me, including some guidance and advice in this topic.
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