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Hi and welcome - just add your name to the list of participants on the project page jimfbleak (talk) 17:14, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

in the line

| image = Athene blewitti.jpg

just replace Athene blewitti.jpg with the new image title jimfbleak (talk) 05:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Have you uploaded the image (preferably at Commons)?

I've added you to the list jimfbleak (talk) 05:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject Birds August newsletter

Archives  |  Tip Line The Birds WikiProject Newsletter August 2009
We're looking for input on several topics this month — including whether we should change the period of time we work on collaboration articles from a month to a quarter, and whether we should change the authority for our species (and article) naming from Handbook of Birds of the World to the International Ornithological Committee's World Bird List. Be sure to add your two cents (or pence or rand or rupees or pesos or bolivars or whatever other currency is appropriate) to the discussions...	Articles of note Macaroni Penguin — just one of the project's new Featured Articles New featured articles: Macaroni Penguin (June 2) Australian Magpie (July 7) Ruff (July 14) New good articles: Alpine Chough (June 23) Red-throated Diver (July 18) New project members Dger (talk · contribs) Frosted Orange (talk · contribs) KnowledgeRequire (talk · contribs) Skinips (talk · contribs) Article statistics Bird articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 19 61 155 237 FL 1 6 24 31 FM 622 622 GA 6 11 34 159 1 211 B 10 38 70 240 2 360 C 12 104 266 1,108 3 1,493 Start 5 112 828 6,515 9 7,469 Stub 16 1,281 7,669 10 8,976 List 12 76 773 104 4 969 Category 1 4,150 4,151 Disambig 201 201 File 1 302 303 Portal 57 57 Project 58 58 Redirect 1 14 104 247 2,092 2,458 Template 3,913 3,913 NA 3 3 Other 1 1 Assessed 37 326 2,726 16,892 11,503 29 31,513 Unassessed 1 2 16 19 Total 37 326 2,727 16,894 11,503 45 31,532 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 98,676 Ω = 5.26
Potential collaboration changes The question has been raised as to whether we should change our collaboration article period from monthly to quarterly. Please weigh in on the debate — and be sure to list anything you'd like to have considered for possible collaboration efforts.
Project news What's my name? Help decide — see the text. A proposal has been made to change the standard source for species (and article) names from Handbook of Birds of the World to the International Ornithological Committee's World Bird List. Do you agree or disagree? Comments and opinions are sought here. There's renewed interest in getting some of our nearly-there topics ready for a run at Featured Topic. Currently, there are a trio of potentials: the Procellaridae, the New World vultures and the choughs. Each of the first two have two articles that will need to be improved to at least GA-class before the topic can be nominated. For the procellarids, Procellariiformes is currently B-class and Diving-petrel is currently Start-class. For New World vultures, New World vulture is currently B-class, and Cathartes is currently Start-class. The choughs are currently up for Good Topic listing — but getting either Alpine Chough or Chough to FA-class would enable us to put that one up for featured topic as well. Last month saw the start of an Outline of Birds, which should eventually provide a project index, allowing interested readers to more easily access all of the articles associated with WikiProject Birds. Help to populate the outline with any articles you find missing.
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As far as I can remember (I will check my books tonight) they are actually smaller than the two royal species and no bigger than the others in the wandering species-complex. As a rationale for High status I don't find it particularly compelling. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:06, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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