Talk:Golden-winged sunbird

A fact from Golden-winged sunbird appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 October 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the range of the Golden-winged Sunbird coincides with its major food item, the nectar of the plant Leonotis nepetifolia (both pictured)?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/October.

Wikipedia

Birds Mid‑importance

Golden-winged sunbird is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Please do not substitute this template.BirdsWikipedia:WikiProject BirdsTemplate:WikiProject Birdsbird articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Birds To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea (more)
Cleanup : Bullfinch • Vesper sparrow • Bird flight • Bird bath (more)
Copyedit : Plushcap • Magpie duck • Saker falcon (more)
Expand : Phalarope • Nidicolous • Gouldian finch • Cathartes • Cnemophilidae • Avian malaria (more)
NPOV : Debeaking • Driven grouse shooting • Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (more)
Stubs : Cathartiformes • Semiplumbeous hawk • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill • Sunda scops owl (more)
Update : Coal tit • Scottish crossbill • New Caledonian lorikeet • Operation Migration (more)
Verify : Argus (bird) • Blyth's frogmouth • Nik Borrow • Pytilia • Fregata • Chestnut-headed tesia • Darter • Pallid scops owl • Starling (more)
Wikify : Ninox boobook ocellata • The Institute for Bird Populations (more)
Other : Add photos to bird articles needing photos (search Flickr for free images). Add taxonomic authorities to genus articles.

More outstanding tasks at the project's cleanup listing, Category:Birds articles needing attention, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Todo.

Added Behavior Section

Added the behavior section (500 words) and 5 references.

My evaluation of of this article for Bio372

The article on the Golden-winged Sunbird is a stub. It contains only a picture and a sentence on where it is found. For more completeness, the article could include taxonomy, description (appearance), distribution (as well as a map highlighting the areas), behavior, and its relationship to humans or culture. The behavior section could have mating, feeding, and survival sections. In particular, the behavior section could discuss the concept of economic defendability. They could mention the advantages of territorial defense and how time and energy budgets of sunbirds predict when resources should be defended. A good reference for the sunbird is the Gill and Wolf paper of 1975, which discusses the energetic profit of raising nectar levels. Another topic in behavior that can be considered is writing about the personality types of sunbirds and how different behavioral traits are correlated. Also discussion of competition for the resources and the ESS for sunbirds could be examined. The little writing that is present is clear, concise, and unbiased. The talk page only has it listed under the WikiProject Birds and does not even have an importance rating on it. Based off the history, it appears that the formation of the article was automatically generated by a bot in 2007 and has received only a few revisions since then. Zhangt2413 (talk) 19:48, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have not checked the references, but the new section on behaviour looks good. One point is that I have tagged an unreferenced recently added paragraph to indicate where an in-line reference would be helpful. Snowman (talk) 15:52, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Still needs a description section - but big enough for DYK and nominated - link below. Very nice image. Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:21, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a description section. I think it needs a range and habitat section, especially considering the current hook for DKY mentions the range. Why does the introduction say it lives in the Congo (central Africa) and the feeding section only refer to East Africa? Snowman (talk) 13:17, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I guess because the person wrote about its role there or the study was there. All these are on JSTOR which I have access to so I will have a look now and round out. Lucky the Sunbirds book was on google books to provide some good baseline information to work from. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:35, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This sunbird is listed in List of birds of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo is a vast area, and I doubt if the sunbird is found all over this country, perhaps is is just on the east side. The introduction of the Congo Wiki article says that the Congo is in central Africa. Unfortunately, my field guide of East African birds is very brief, but I have managed to extract a very brief description for the article. Snowman (talk) 14:00, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The IUCN's range map is here. Snowman (talk) 14:47, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"intra-specifically and inter-specifically"; jargon. Snowman (talk) 14:54, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"Sometimes, when female Golden-winged Sunbirds intrude on Bronzy Sunbirds' territories"; is this a group of females sunbirds or is it solo birds. Similarly, it is a single Bronzy Sunbird's territory or the territory of several Bronzy Sunbirds. Clarification needed. Snowman (talk) 15:01, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty sure it is single, but will just read it again later today to clarify. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:15, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If it is single birds, then to me this is not clear in the article. Snowman (talk) 22:14, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have read the article again and clarified it now. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:25, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

Above is a transclusion of Template:Did you know nominations/Golden-winged Sunbird. Snowman (talk) 13:28, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Washington University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Fall term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:16, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]