Talk:List of birds of Africa

Splitting list

This article may be too long...move/split into List of African birds: passerines and List of African birds: non-passerines? —Bmdavll _talk 08:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

too long?it's shows all the birds we have in africa!

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August 2017 update

The update to the most recently available source lists and taxonomy (as of August 2017) required many systematic changes to the article as well as changes within families. Rather than note them at every occurrence I list them here.

• The format of each family's title is changed to be the same as that of nearly all other lists of birds, with the only links being to the scientific names of Order and Family.
• The titles of each family section are generally those of Clements, though a few are modified to better reflect the African species. For instance, Vireonidae is titled "Vireos" rather than "Vireos, shrike-babblers, and erpornis".
• Species have been deleted if they don't appear in any of the three source lists or if on a source list they're noted as outside the area covered by this list (e.g. diving-petrels).
• Species (except vagrants) have been added if they appear in at least two of the three source lists, but the sources of the additions aren't individually noted in the edit summaries.
• Vagrant species are added from the ABC list but the source isn't individually noted in the edit summaries.
• Changes to English names, genera, and specific epithets and changes to the sequence of species within a family are all from Clements, as implied in the introduction. They are noted but not sourced in the edit summaries.
• The tag (Introduced) has been added to four species per the ABC as noted in the introduction, so it's not sourced in the edit summaries.
• The use of the (V) tag is described in the introduction, so it's not sourced in the edit summaries.
• The ABC does not specifically note endemism, so the (E) tags are from Clements; they are not sourced in the edit summaries.

Craigthebirder (talk) 07:45, 26 August 2017 (UTC)