WikiProject Birds March newsletter Archives Tip Line The Birds WikiProject NewsletterMarch 2009 Articles of note New good articles Whitefish Point Bird Observatory January 25 with apologies for not including it last month Rufous crowned Sparrow February 13 Article statistics Project news needs you Our first collaboration article for 2009 is Cockatoo a well known Australasian family of parrots The article is already in reasonable shape thanks to early efforts by a number of contributors and with a little more work we should be able to get it to GA FA status Can we get our first group star for the year on this one On a related note be sure to vote for April s collaboration article which will be chosen on March 31 If none of the existing nominations interest you consider adding a new one Please be sure to mark any featured lists as FL class rather than FA class All of our current featured lists have been moved into this new ish category Beginning in April we ll be removing from our active participants list the name of any editor who hasn t edited on Wikipedia for 6 months or more putting them instead into a retired editors section Please note that will be easy to move yourself back into the active category if you start editing again after an extended absence This should help us to better evaluate our project s editor retention and make for more efficient newsletter delivery Videos We all know the old adage A picture is worth a thousand words And if that s true videos are probably worth 10 000 They re a great way to add information to articles for instance by showing behaviours that are hard to explain with text or static pictures They can also include audio adding a dimension unavailable in a photo If you don t have your own video camera you can still help the project by finding and requesting videos from others who have already taken them checking for example at Flickr YouTube or The Internet Bird Collection If you have questions about how to upload videos several project members including or may be able to help Newsletter challenge took up the last newsletter s challenge and started our article about distraction displays behaviors used by birds to lure or drive potential predators away from nests or young This month we re looking for someone to start an article about acoustical luring which is a method used by some predatory birds to lure potential prey into reach The person who creates this article and gets it beyond a mere stub level will be mentioned in the next newsletter Got a suggestion A correction Something you d like to see included in a future issue Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas To stop receiving this newsletter or to receive it in a different format please list yourself in the appropriate section here This has been an automated delivery by talk