Talk:Coastal California gnatcatcher

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	This article was accepted from this draft on 16 April 2020 by reviewer Robert McClenon (talk · contribs).

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Reviewer Note

I will be accepting this page. It needs more links to other articles. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of Coastal Sage Scrub

The photo currently used on this page representing habitat is from Big Sur, which is out of the range of the California Gnatcatcher. Recommend replacing this photo with one from Southern California, such as this one: [1]. 2600:8801:C80A:C100:21A1:7FFA:179E:C77E (talk) 06:48, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This has been bothering me since I found this page but I kept forgetting about it. Not only is it outside the range of the bird, it's a bad representation of a native habitat. All of the red groundcover vegetation is actually an invasive iceplant (Carpobrotus sp.). The image you suggested is a little better but it's dominated by another highly invasive species, fountain grass (Cenchrus setaceus). I'm not 100% sure but that might be a little closer to chaparral than coastal sage scrub. Apparently it's a fairly loosely-defined type of vegetation. I'll comb through the Wikimedia search results in a bit and if I don't find anything that fits I can go through my old photos. –Spifferella 23:27, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]