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Craigthebirder, as you have no doubt guessed, is an avid birdwatcher named Craig. I'm from northeast Ohio, USA.

I'm a fairly new contributor who started in the usual way with a couple of dozen edits, nearly all of which were small grammatical fixes or other cleanup-type changes.

I added my first full article (The Army Air Forces in World War II) in May 2016.

Pages I've created

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U.S. state bird lists

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AlabamaArkansasDelawareKentuckyLouisianaMississippiNew HampshireRhode IslandTennesseeVirginia

Canadian province and territory bird lists

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ManitobaNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaPrince Edward IslandSaskatchewanYukon

U.S. national park bird lists

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AcadiaBig BendBiscayneBlack Canyon of the GunnisonChannel IslandsCuyahoga ValleyDenaliDry TortugasEvergladesGrand CanyonGrand TetonGreat Smoky MountainsGuadalupe MountainsIsle RoyaleKenai FjordsMount RainierOlympicShenandoahYosemite

Other bird lists

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South AmericaArubaBonaireCuraçaoFalkland IslandsGuadeloupeMartiniqueSaint Pierre and MiquelonBaxter State ParkAccipitriformes speciesAnatidae speciesAntbird speciesCisticolidae speciesCuckoo speciesFringillidae (true finch) speciesHeron speciesIcterid speciesLaridae speciesLark speciesNew World (American) sparrow speciesOld World flycatcher speciesOvenbird speciesOwl speciesPloceidae speciesRail speciesSunbird speciesTanager speciesTapaculo species

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Ampay tapaculoBlack-fronted brushfinchChoco brushfinchHofmann's sunbirdJalca tapaculoLoja tapaculoMerida brushfinchSanta Marta screech owlUtcubamba tapaculo

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The Army Air Forces in World War IIUnited States Army in World War IIHistory of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War IIBald Eagle (clipper)Glory of the Seas (clipper)Romance of the Sea (clipper)USCGC Willow (WAGL-253)

Pages I've heavily edited

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In September 2016 I began updating the existing "List of birds of ..." pages for the western hemisphere to the most recent available bird lists and taxonomies. I also added bird lists for those US states and Canadian provinces which didn't have them. Maintaining them was an ongoing task, with annual updates of North and Middle American taxonomy and more frequent ones of South American, plus periodic updates to state, province, and national park lists published by their respective ornithological associations or other bodies. I also annually updated the lists for the continent of Africa and 10 of its countries plus Thailand - all places I've either birded or hope to bird - and 17 European country lists which were previously rudimentary, unsourced, or far out of date. After doing the August 2021 North American taxonomic and list updates, I turned over the maintenance of all of the lists except those of South America, U.S. national parks, and my home Ohio to other editors.

In spring 2021 I began expanding the stubs of South and Central American and Caribbean bird species articles. I've so far completed 1861: those for screamers (2 species), ducks, geese, and swans (8), the guan/chachalaca/curassow family (34), New World quail (13), the nightjar and allies family (35), potoos (5), swifts (24), hummingbirds (317), cuckoos (16), pigeons and doves (42), rails, gallinules, and coots (39), trumpeters (genus and 3 species), plovers (6), seedsnipes (3), snipes (3), gulls and terns (6), hawks (9), owls (41), quetzals and trogons (19), kingfishers (4), todies (1), motmots (7), jacamars (15), the puffbird family (38), New World barbets (13), the prong-billed barbet (1), toucans (37), woodpeckers (92), seriemas (1), falcons and caracaras (13), New World parrots (74), the sapayoa (1), ovenbirds (316), antbirds (238), antthrushes (11), antpittas (66), gnateaters (6), tapaculos (48), royal flycatchers (5), crescentchests (5), tyrant flycatchers (in progress, 110 so far), wrens (62), gnatcatchers (15), the mockingbird family (17), New World sparrows (3), chat-tanagers (2), Hispaniolan tanagers (4), spindalises (2), the wrenthrush (1), Cuban warblers (2), mitrospingid tanagers (4), the cardinal family (21), and "true" tanagers (1).

Vanity - places I've been

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Countries I've visited

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US states and Canadian provinces I've visited

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About me

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30,000+This user has made more than 30,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user is a birder.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Birds.
HThis user is a current or former student of Hamilton College.
UNHThis user is a UNH Wildcat. Go 'Cats!
XUThis user attends or attended Xavier University.
This user is a history buff.
This user is interested in
World War II
This user is a bibliophile.
This user is a cat lover.