Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Trocaz Pigeon/archive1
Resolved issues from Sasata Sasata (talk) 15:52, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
- lead: link habitat loss; introduced, laurel
- shouldn't being a paragraph (or section) with "This"
- link plumage, buff, iridescence, nape
- "…and a relatively much smaller tail." "relatively" seems redundant, as the comparison is explicit
- "It often has dark wing markings, and
it hasa lighter flight.
- link pigeon family to Columbidae
- "One of several subgroups within Columba consists of the widespread Eurasian Common Wood Pigeon, C. palumbus, Bolle's Pigeon, C. bollii, the Trocaz Pigeon, and the African Afep Pigeon, C. unicincta." I think the layout of this sentence is slightly confusing, one might miss that the binomial follows the common name. Why not put them in parenthesis, or just pipe links from the common name?
- removed binomials Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- "This is a monotypic taxon" perhaps reword to avoid the consecutive links
- changed taxon to species Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- link subspecies, primary & secondary forest, heath (heath (habitat) or heath forest?), display,
- Done except "heath", which I can't see other than in the already-linked "tree heath" Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- "very occasionally" is there a one-word adjective for this? infrequently? rarely?
- "Competition for food with rats can be locally significant." But globally insignificant? Not quite sure what this is trying to say.
- Competition for food with rats can be significant in parts of the island Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- link extirpated, cull
- "The Parque Natural da Madeira national park has a management plan for the species" the bird or the rat?
- explicitly pigeon now Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- What's a bird scarer?
- spell out EU
- Done and linked Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- Here's some unused sources that I found in a lit review:
- Title: The influence of fruit abundance on the use of forest and cultivated field habitats by the endemic Madeira laurel pigeon Columba trocaz: Implications for conservation
- Author(s): Oliveira, P; Menezes, D; Jones, M, et al.
- Source: BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION Volume: 130 Issue: 4 Pages: 538-548 Published: JUL 2006
- I'd seen this, now added half a sentencce
- Title: Naming segregates from the Columba-Streptopelia pigeons following DNA studies on phylogeny
- Author(s): Cheke, Anthony S.
- Source: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club Volume: 125 Issue: 4 Pages: 293-295 Published: DEC 2005
- text I didn't use this since it's not relevant to core Columba sp like the wood pigeons Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- Title: White-headed duck, great skua, Madeira laurel pigeon.
- Author(s): Parkin, David
- Source: BWP Update Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Pages: 79-117 Published: August 2001
- I don't have access, but I couldn't find any refs to it, so presumably not earth-shakingly important Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- Title: Population numbers, habitat preferences and the impact of the long-toed pigeon, Columba trocaz, on agriculture
- Author(s): Oliveira, Paulo; Jones, Martin
- Source: Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal Volume: 0 Issue: SUPPL. 4 Pages: 531-542 Published: 1995
- as far as I can ascertain, there is nothing in this not developed in later papers, just a baseline really Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- Title: A survey of the distribution, density and habitat preference of the long-toed pigeon Columba trocaz in Madeira.
- Author(s): Jones, M.J.
- Source: ICBP Study Report Pages: 1-69 Published: 1988
- Content appears to be summarised in the birdlife page and the Action plan
- Title: AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITAT FEEDING HABITATS DENSITY BREEDING AND NEED OF PROTECTION OF THE LONG-TOED WOOD PIGEON COLUMBA-TROCAZ
- Author(s): ZINO F; ZINO P A
- Source: Bocagiana (Funchal) Issue: 97 Pages: 1-15 Published: 1986
- Nothing that's not elsewhere, particularly the action plan Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- Title: 1ST OBSERVATION OF BOLLS PIGEON COLUMBA-TROCAZ-BOLLII NEW-RECORD ON HIERRO CANARY ISLES
- Author(s): MARTIN A
- Source: Alauda Volume: 53 Issue: 2 Pages: 137-140 Published: 1985
- Not actually about this species, Bolle's was once thought to be a ssp of trocaz Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)