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Talk:Stock dove

message: How 2A02:A46F:4104:1:702A:56E5:4183:1184 (talk) 20:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How could I feet 

message: Description section issues:
A majority of the description section for this species isn't even about the species in question... "The genus Columba is in the pigeon family, and has the widest distribution. Its members are typically pale grey or brown, often with white head or neck markings or iridescent green or purple patches on the neck and breast. The neck feathers may be stiffened and aligned to form grooves, but these are absent in this species." Is a majority of this info really relevant to this Wikipedia page? I've never seen an article go into so much detail about the genus, when it's supposed to be a species page.
"The common wood pigeon may be readily distinguished by its large size, as well as the white on its neck (in adults) and wings. The rock dove and stock dove are more alike in size and plumage, but wild specimens of the former have a white rump and two well-marked dark bars on the wing, while the rump of the stock dove is grey and its wing bars incomplete. The feral pigeon (the same species as the rock dove) is highly variable, and indistinctly marked grey specimens with the white rump missing can sometimes resemble the stock dove quite closely." Again, a majority of this paragraph is dedicated to talking about other subjects that have Wikipedia articles of their own. I feel as though a paragraph describing the stock dove itself would be far more beneficial than a paragraph dedicated to describing various other pigeon species. You might see another species mentioned in an articles description if there is genuine confusion between them, (think of species within the same genus that look almost exactly the same with very minor differences.) Most readers however would not confuse a feral pigeon with a wood pigeon or stock dove. I can see the similarities between a wood pigeon and a stock dove but that's it. I personally wouldn't mention the similarity in the article unless there are reputable citation sources claiming the two species are often confused.
The most concerning issue of all is that the stock dove doesn't even have a proper description of its species within its own Wikipedia articles description section. Nobody reading this article can learn about it's physiology, but can instead learn about other distinct species or the genus in general.
Ecology section issues:
There is a lack of citations for a majority of the ecology section, so references need to be found to support the information written. The section also needs rewording to fit the standard of a Wikipedia article. "stock doves stop over at places with an abundance of acorns" or "The nest is usually in a hole in an old tree" and various other sentences are worded poorly to prevent clear and concise reading and would benefit from rewording / rephrasing. JarroNevsbaru (talk) 08:04, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with this article.
Talk:Striated heron

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Talk:Struthioniformes

message: Redirected back to Struthio. It makes no sense, since people tend to drill down, to have Struthioniformes point to Ratites, instead of down to Struthio. Why, after I read the Ratite article and I want to continue reading more and more specific articles will I want to link backwards. It just seems better to leave it at Struthio. Although, I know I could be mistaken. speednat (talk) 02:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Sudan golden sparrow

message: "The Sudan Golden Sparrow is a smaller sparrow, at 12 to 13 centimetres (4.7–5.1 in) in length, with a wingspan of 57 to 70 centimetres (22–28 in)."
This is about the wing span of a small duck! Please check.
GB  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.12.57.62 (talk) 21:33, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, these are typos. Fixed. —innotata 01:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wing Span
Talk:Superb starling

message: I just uploaded :Image:SuperbStarling.jpg, in case anybody wants to use it for this article, or for anything else. -GTBacchus(talk) 01:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I do not think the bird's name "Superb Starling" should be capitalized as shown. It would make more sense for it to be changed to lowercase "superb starling", because there are no proper nouns in its name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8803:5B00:33A:F42D:71B8:3618:A266 (talk) 18:31, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:Swallow-tailed bee-eater

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Talk:Taita falcon

message: Whoa thats a pretty poor photo.. its very out of focus, I think it should be replaced Kotare 04:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: According to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270086490_Genetic_Evidence_for_Global_Dispersal_in_the_Peregrine_Falcon_Falco_peregrinus_and_Affinity_with_the_Taita_Falcon_Falco_fasciinucha, particulary in https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig1_270086490, the Taita falcon is as close to the peregrine as the Barbary falcons. 78.130.23.145 (talk) 11:32, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very close to the peregrine falcon
Talk:Bosse High School

message: I added a page for Bosse High in Evansville because the 80-year-old school has had some important alumni, and has been a model for racial integration in a south-midwestern city. 
I believe if the page is left up, others will flesh out details of the school's history, particularly in the racially-charged 1960s and 1970s.
Georgef1776 03:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide any source to verify your mimeographed paper in 1971? First-person accounts are not reliable sources under Wikipedia policy. Or any sources to show it's notable? Fan-1967 03:51, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Frederick Ahl

message: Not sure I understand the protocols of merging, but the article "Frederick Ahl" now contains the information previously in "Frederick M. Ahl," which redirects here. I did not attempt to improve the quality of the article(s), which reads more like a résumé than a biography, and which doesn't show much grasp of the distinctive intellectual character of Ahl's work. Hope I haven't goofed things up too much. Cynwolfe (talk) 21:51, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged "Frederick M. Ahl" with "Frederick Ahl"
Talk:Geography of the Northwest Territories

message: When I orginally happened upon this article, I started fixing a few links. Then I noticed something else, and so on and so on. I have realized that this article needs some massive copy-editing, mainly because it doesn't read well or flow, and most of the information in it has nothing to do with the Geography of the Northwest Territories. -YK Times 03:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This article needs work...

message: I'm going to move this page to Geography of the Northwest Territories. It needs 'the' just like at History of the Northwest Territories. Masterhatch (talk) 20:21, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The vs no the
Talk:Thrush nightingale

message: Hello,
Do you think it would be of interest for visitors of this article to add this info:
Mtcn (talk) 16:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The English Wiki does not generally focus on foreign bird names. It would be important to make sure that the inter-wiki links are correct. Snowman (talk) 18:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Verreaux's eagle

message: Even if the book indicate June 1830 as publication date, it was not published in year 1830. The Verreaux's eagle was part of delivery 8 which was published March 1831. See...
* Edward Clive Dickinson, Colin Jones: Some corrections to information provided in Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology”. In: Zoological Bibliohraphy. Bd. 2, Nr. 2/3, 2012, S. 75–89 here page 81.--Earwig (talk) 11:30, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of publication 

message: Verreaux, Golden, Gurney and Wedge-tailed eagles does NOT represent a clade (see Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (2017) in https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3208/ad60e52847d90724b5e4de6eaa2bff4d5f2f.pdf), unless includes also at least Aquila fasciata and A. spilogaster, since these later species are the closest eagles to the Verreaux eagle.89.181.77.45 (talk) 20:46, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The text has been adjusted. WolfmanSF (talk) 01:32, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

text: Maybe true, but we don't need to describe the phylogeny exhaustively in this article. WolfmanSF (talk) 00:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verreaux, Golden, Gurney, Wedge-tailed does NOT represent a clade
Talk:Village weaver

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Talk:Von der Decken's hornbill

message: The Von der Decken’s Hornbill is a rather short article that is very factual and at the same time not as in depth and detailed as the others.  For the pictorial difference visible between male and females of the species, there is no verbal description of the noted differences.  Also noted was the error in the “external links” section.  The breeding and feeding sections both lack that element of competition; lacking the strategies involved in getting food, finding shelter, or finding mates.  Instead, there is information on the captive birds of this species, which is probably not the most helpful information for knowledge of this animal in the natural habitats in which one can find this bird.  The talk and discussion section only contains the reference to other wiki projects.  This species is placed into an unknown category under the wiki project for Africa.  The history section is the same as other articles.  As a suggestion, this article can use taxonomical information as well as greater descriptions on behavior and physical appearance.  TKYung (talk) 19:50, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments From Class
Talk:Wattle-eye

message: which is bias and megabyas  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samweithe4 (talk • contribs) 13:40, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 genera should be merged to [[Vangidae]]
Talk:Wattled crane

message: Most of the text in this page is copied from . --Rui Silva (talk) 13:18, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Violation of copyright

message: Here's a recent news item that announces invasions of Uganda by wattled cranes:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905140188.html
Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs)  15:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invading Uganda
Talk:Whinchat

message: To what does this Cornish phrase refer? the whinchat bird, see the BBC website referenced below. Or the Redwing, see List of Cornish dialect words, or a Peregrine Falcon, as in Birds of Cornwall the North Cornwall paragraph. I suspect it's the whinchat.Wisht as a winnard, BBC. Accessed 6 November 2016.BeckenhamBear (talk) 09:05, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Wisht as a winnard
Talk:White-bellied go-away-bird

message: I now see from the WikiProject Birds talk page that people having taken it upon themselves to capitalise bird names (but not most other species, bizarrely). This is simply not correct, so I'll let someone else return the references on this page to the wrong forms. (I made the G lower case; the B was already lower case, although this was obviously not consistent.)
There also should not be a hyphen between away and bird in the title. Salopian 16:01, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalisation
Talk:Kassapa Buddha

message: The Article says "he lived for two thousand years in three different palaces" and he "died at the age of forty thousand years".
Is the last meant to be the time on some scale when he had died?
Can someone shed a light on this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.59.146.12 (talk) 04:39, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Buddhavamsa, Kassapa Buddha lived in his palaces for 2,000 years, then left the palace to begin a life of asceticism. After final achieving enlightenment, he traveled and taught until his eventual death at the age of 40,000 years. DiverDave (talk) 03:09, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How old was this man? 

message: This article says he is the 24th, but that list of the 28 Buddhas says he is the 27th. Whichever it is supposed to be, citations really are necessary, per WP:V and WP:RS. — coelacan talk — 03:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for this and other corrections is that there are actually 2 lists, the shorter 1 beginning with Dipankara. Both lists are found in the Buddhavamsa. Peter jackson 15:22, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there is no definite beginning point for the numbering. There is also a list of "six ancient buddhas", in which Kassapa appears as the 6th.—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 22:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made several recent edits that I hope will clarify the place of Kassapa Buddha in history. DiverDave (talk) 01:57, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  contradiction
Talk:White-eye

message: I've moved white-eye back to the bird family which has dozens of links, and is clearly of greater importance than a single red-linked fish species. in the process, I've also fixed many redirects to point straight to white-eye. jimfbleak 07:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: What does the HBW review say about nectar in their diet ? This 1967 paper suggests that it is not important. Shyamal (talk) 09:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll check when I return to New Zealand. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 14:15, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nectar feeding

message: hi there is a new species "Meratus white eye" it was discovered in 2016 from  Indonesia's South Kalimantan province Yournewsboy (talk) 9:22, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted it. If you cannot give the species name and authority - then it is not something to be added. Shyamal (talk) 06:47, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  New species
Talk:List of hospitals in Tennessee

message: Should the listing involve a more complicated layout detailing Trauma, PICU, and NICU as well as other designations for specialty? If so, how should we go about it? Je.rrt (talk) 21:42, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  listing by capabilites? 

message: List of hospitals in Middle Tennessee is currently a separate page. I do not see any need for a separate list of hospitals for a part of Tennessee. Each state should (and does) have such a list, and then large cities with numerous hospitals also have such a list, but lists for parts or regions of states seems redundant and unnecessary. To my knowledge, this is the only such list. Someone should merge to page into this one and focus efforts on fixing this page. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:16, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:White-throated kingfisher

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Talk:Wire-tailed swallow

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Talk:Asian woolly-necked stork

message: Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus is split:
Woolly-necked Stork has been split – with the African birds being a different species. Our birds take the new name Asian Woolly-necked Stork. For such a widespread species, this is one change all of us have to get used to.
Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus 
African Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia microscelis https://birdcount.in/ebird-india-taxonomy-2022/ --Manojk (talk) 09:56, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Split
Talk:Yellow-billed oxpecker

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Talk:Nikolayevsk incident

message: I've updated the article, because the original did not truly convey the scale and scope of this massacre, for example that all civilian inhabitants were murdered, etc. Source: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPOL%2FPOL31_176%2FS0032247400024918a.pdf&code=8a5897bd11752f30968140bc4db80943
Viktorhauk (talk) 09:15, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: According to the Korean version of this article, some Korean partisans led by far-left anarcho-communist Ilya Park also participated in this incident. Perhaps the respective content should be translated from the Korean page, to add important context to this article. 
Smallbearwj (talk) 10:16, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The papers are in Russian, not Korean.  Fysjsj2517 (talk) 08:27, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Involvement of Korean partisans
Talk:Yellow-billed shrike

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Talk:Yellow-fronted canary

message: I don't get the capitalization rules that have been applied here: It's "yellow-fronted canary" but "Yellow-eyed Canary"? That doesn't make sense. Shouldn't it be consistent at least within an article? So which is it supposed to be? --87.150.1.92 (talk) 13:43, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Ornithologists and birders use upper case, but Wikipedia uses lower. Gould363 (talk) 01:00, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower or upper case?
Talk:Zdravko Tolimir

message: Yes it appears that I have been misled by someone. I watched a BBC online report on the web page which stated that Tolimir was in the RS and was heading towards Serbia when stopped and taken; that was how I rewrote the section. Only this past night, the BBC World Service has reported atleast once every hour that Tolimir was arrested in Serbia (which is only possible by Serbian police/security) and handed over to UN at border, hence the focus of the report being that the "EU will restart negotiation talks with Serbia as a mark of gratitude for its cooperation with the Hague court". It seems that the frontliners at the BBC cannot agree with each other and so for now, I am unsure what to display. Evlekis 05:33, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrest
Talk:Zitting cisticola

message: There is a photo of these birds in Jakarta, in the 2021 calendar from The Nature Conservancy. It shows a female feeding one of five young birds, all lined up on a thick branch. I wondered if the young could fly yet, and generally how long until they are on their own. The zitting cisticola is described in every aspect but that aspect: feeding the young and how long before a chick can fly. - - Prairieplant (talk) 23:30, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  When do the young fledge?
Talk:African grey woodpecker

message: *Dendropicos goertae and D. spodocephalus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped and transferred to the genus Mesopicos following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993). Grey Woodpecker - BirdLife Species Factsheet.  Retrieved 22 January 2007 from http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=621&m=0 
I've cross-checked this and Mesopicos not Dendropicos is more widely accepted species designation.  Hence I'm revising this page accordingly.  Thank you! ThomHasi 12:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxonomic note
Talk:Grey-necked rockfowl

message: Im pretty sure the species name is from teh Ancient Greek oreas "mountain" (cf. oread), but would be good to conclusively verify. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:42, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

message: Thomas Butynsky in Equatorial Guinea, Roger Fotso and Hilary Tye in Cameroon, J. Ash in Nigeria and André Brosset in Gabon Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 04:33, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Names 