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many new editors start contributing. Although I've been editing for almost two years, I've only recently started looking at articles on birds and exchanged comments with you and one or two other editors regarding birds. I very much appreciate your courteous and informative replies. Even if you feel constrained by certain formatting rules, I really believe you can still make a difference at WP and even continue to enjoy editing.

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ago);" You seem to have taken Andy as addressing you, and attributing to you something you had not said. You then say you're going to steer clear of the project to avoid stepping on Andy's toes. I hope you can see now that this was a misunderstanding: Andy's comment was not directed at you. I think you've interpreted an animosity from Andy which isn't there. I don't know if you've seen his reply to you.

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separated, the couple on the right behaved like a heterosexual Mallard duck couple in a way that they always kept very close together and remained separated from the other group. When they moved, one duck of the couple was always very closely following the other one and when they didn't move they frequently established body contact as shown on the set of photos. --

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the reserve at some stage (at Titchwell they had two really useful under-the-counter leaflets) but it may not be before I go to Canada, especially given the rubbish weather. Do you have anything that helps, or ideas? Apart from the voles, it's quite likely that there aren't any notable animals, so we may have to go with what we have if all else fails.

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I'm intermittently working on this SSSI in a sandbox, and it occurred to me that there could be a long-term FT with the SSSI and the main reserves in it. Some of the reserves, like NWT Salthouse Marshes and Scolt Head NNR have very limited access or facilities, and I'm not sure they merit separate FA

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Fine, I look forward to it. My preference is to work in article space, but no big deal either way. I think this will take a while anyway, I'll need to go to Cley to see what they have got at the Visitors Centre, and I'm in Vancouver for part of next month, so whether I'll go before then remains to be

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The Pelican article is being prepared for GA and eventually FA. I was resizing the photos in the article because it looks very messy to have some wider than others. I don't go round changing the size of images in general but I did resize the 8 Pelican species images in the table a couple of weeks ago

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Meegs, I'm sorry that you have decided to leave editing at WP. You seem to be an intelligent, articulate, kind and generous editor. I know you are upset as others have been regarding the issues with the MoS editors, but I'd just like to point out that WP is always changing -- some editors leave, but

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Dear MeegsC: Thank you so much for your kind note on my talk page about AFT 5! I am really glad that you like the newer version of the tool -- and appreciate your offer to put it on some of the articles on your watchlist. This is something that you can do next week, when we re-enable the tool on the

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I'm beginning to struggle for sources now, exhausted my own resources and can't find much more on the Internet. The obvious gap is non-avian animals. I've been through the non-print stuff in your list of resources, many are dead and I think most of the rest is already covered fairly well. I'll go to

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No, it's correct; NA cuckoos aren't brood parasites and most Old World species are. However, that comment is irrelevant to the Madagascar birds! I think it's a standard "family introduction" that the bot that created these lists put at the top of the family grouping, as it appears the same in most

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That issue seems to be resolved for now, so my inclination is to leave as is for now. I've filed your note in case it's needed later. I'd picked up the Gesner usage from Linnaeus' initial citation, and that's one of the reasons I said it was established usage. Thanks for the offer of help, I'll take

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where you asked a question, User:Snowman responds, and then User:Pigsonthewing (Andy) follows up with a response to Snowman which says "As you can see from the link I provided, above, all of the references added from ARKive were labelled thus (you were, I recall, calling for this to be done, a while

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the right word? I always thought "sedentary" meant something like "tending to sit a lot", as in a sedentary job. Is this a special meaning used just in ornithology for birds that do not migrate north and south due to changes in the weather or seasons -- that is, "staying in one area all year"? Just

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I apologize for removing your work. I saw the IUCN reference already on the page and didn't realize you made the IUCN dead link live. You sent me a note regarding changing the genus, so I changed it to something more current. You said nothing about the IUCN change....a little communication about

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Doesn't look very notable, but I've asked Shyamal, he should know. For some reason, all the BNA stuff for Common Tern seems to be open access at the moment, so I think I'm OK. Thanks for the offer anyway (I'm not sure what is going on, even amongst the terns, several are free, others are completely

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Nice! There are a number of nest classifications, all of which attack things from slightly different angles. I'll have a think about potential illustration sources; I'm off to Madagascar in 2.5 hours and a bit pressed for time at the minute. :) For other possibilities, how about a platform nest

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RL is a bit nuts at the moment (except for a couple of weeks next month, I'm in the field from now until early May), but I sometimes have access to the net — and generally try to log on and do a bit when I can. I'll focus on the R-t Loon, and try to get that one ready. There's still a bit more to

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Thank you so much for your wonderful work on the Golden-crowned Sparrow article last year! It was very inspiring for me to see you address so much of the feedback that was posted on this page, turning it into a much better article in the process. I also really appreciate your thoughtful support of

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Thanks for reply. I think the featured list is a good idea, but it would have to have a different title since all the former SSSIs were subsumed into the Norfolk Coast SSSI. In fact, the FL could be "North Norfolk Coast former SSSIs" or something similar. I agree that not all the sites would merit

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Get a grip: in no way, shape or form have I "threatened" you! I merely said you had Cape May county's seal wrong, and that I'd removed it. That's the ONLY county I made any reference to. If you're going to make things up wholesale (supposed threats as well as county seals, apparently) you have to

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and added the "serial comma" -- a comma after the last item in a list before "and" in several places. I know some people prefer the serial comma and others do not. Americans are taught not to use a comma before "and". I use it when it the list is a series of phrases and where it will clear up any

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on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular

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After Saturday, I won't be around much for a couple of weeks. If necessary, when I get back we could run the article, after a bit of tidying up, as it is. It's only slightly shorter than the Titchwell FA (33k v 35k). I can't find anything else, but if possible, we could do with a bit more on the

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I have been thinking about the semi-automated tasks you suggested, but I have not had much time because I have been busy in real life. I have made some IOC and Wiki page name comparisons and I have started to show some lists on the Birds talk page. It might be possible to clean up some Wiki page

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to people to verify the text, especially as the sources are already slanted towards books — just happens that I had tons of terny stuff on my bookshelves. I'll take up your offer if the problem arises again. It's ironic that "subscription required" normally gives no problems, but has arisen here

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Thanks guys! I just needed a few weeks to cool down. It's not the "losing" that pissed me off (despite what some of the MOS stalwarts are attesting), it's the whole tone of the "discussion" they have with people they don't agree with. Name calling. Belittling. Walls of text to shove down your

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Good point. Near the lake/at the shooting location, there was a group of four male Mallards loosely hanging around together (left side of the image below) and this male couple (right side of the image below) While the ducks in the loose group kept some distance among each other and occasionally

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Hi, I looked at your GA review on the American coot page and have tried to clean up the references and add to the intro. One question I had was if the "Culture" section should be eliminated due to lack of citation? Please let me know if there's anything more I can do to get it up to standard.

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articles, and your suggestions are pretty much what I had in mind, sites with visitor facilities and some proper history, rather than just protected saltmarsh. I hadn't realised Holkham was so big (4000ha). Cley is at FAC now, one support from our milhist friend, Dank so far, but early days yet

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until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Knowledge (XXG) about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to

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be true!" It's similar to what's happening in American politics, I'm afraid; nobody can have a proper conversation about differences and work around them any more. It's all shouting and histrionics. And since this is supposed to be "fun", I needed to go off and have some RL fun for a while! :)

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up to GA? It's a well-established article and much of it is pretty much GA-ready, but citation is patchy, and it's certainly a piece of work finding decent sources (done several this morning). It's the kind of article where teamwork would be a benefit, I think. Or tell me if you think the task

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Hi MeegsC, I'm working on a non-profit book about lichens, and I would very much like to use your picture "Pluvialis dominica eggs and nest.jpg", but I'm not sure how to attribute it. Are you Megan Crewe? Is there any way in particular that you would like me to attribute the photo? Thanks,

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To my shame, despite all my years on Knowledge (XXG) I've never done a history merge, so it took a bit of trial and error, but the article now has history back to 21 June 2007. Let me know if I've made any errors (no guarantee I can fix them... ) or if there is any cleaning up to do.

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review. Also, it appears that you modified your signature to include a | character. Unfortuantely, that is a special wiki character and will sometimes cause your signature not to appear properly. Instead use {{!}} or |, both of which will render as a | without problems. Thanks,

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Hi. I'm afraid I can't remember where I got this from, although I do remember finding it somewhere, rather than making it up! I've just checked about a dozen likely candidates amongst my book collection and there's no mention of this taxon. If I track it down, I'll let you know.

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I think the tag by the user was due to a logical problem in the sentence. Fermentation i.e. breakdown of carbohydrate into alcohol and carbon dioxide is the result of organisms respiring anaerobically. I suspect we should just drop a part of the sentence and it should be fine.

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Hi Thaddeus. I've had the same signature since 2007, and no-one has ever told me there's a problem with it. What is the issue? I'm just off the Galápagos boat, and will do my "review" today or tomorrow. It took me a while to figure out how to download the text counter! :P

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it's officially in Eurasia and North America and unofficially in Asia, but usually the word "respectively" is used when there are exactly two items. Here, there are three, and I think "officially and unofficially, respectively" might be a little confusing. What do you think?

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as the next FT, only three articles to do. I'll keep an eye on the nuthatch, and see if I've got any obscure stuff like parasites. I actually saw the Norfolk R-b N, so I have a soft spot for this bird, it's a real British list blocker for anyone too young to have seen it

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Yeah, I only found it because somebody changed the journal name incorrectly (without the ampersand) and it didn't show when I corrected it. It took a while to find! :) By the way, I haven't forgotten about the BNA article; I'll try to get to it this evening.

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I obviously did do this, since it's in the edit history, but I have no idea why. I can't even blame it on collateral damage while making another change. I've changed it back. My apologies, I can only blame temporary insanity. Any thing similar, just revert me

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I've sent again as separate emails, pdf first, Word second. I've edited out the map and the drawing of the nest from the Word file to reduce the size from 10.2MB to 3 MB in case the file size was a problem. Hope they don't disappear into the ether this time!

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Well said, Meegs, and thanks for sticking around. Knowledge (XXG) does have its quota of psychopaths for whom editing is largely a game of asserting power over others rather than contributing worthwhile content. No different from RL really. Cheers.

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Pertaining to expanding Knowledge (XXG), I suppose you have a point. I will not admit that I was wrong, but I will acknowledge that you were right. Not that it matters, but I do believe we have had arguments before, back in 2008, about classifying

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it's the Northern Goshawk, so saying it's officially just "goshawk" wouldn't be correct. Personally, I'd change the second sentence to say "...it is the only species of goshawk in its range and it is thus often referred to as simply "the

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English Knowledge (XXG) (we had to turn it off for technical reasons to convert the current feedback to a new data format, and it's taking longer than expected, sadly). I'll ping you when it's back up -- and you'll be able to simply add

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There's a heading for April 1. I think you're right, I've moved gorget, but left the redirect. Anything I can do with RTL? I suspect that that you have the material, but I'm happy tobe a second pair of eyes for mos, ref checking etc?

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FA, and there are no obvious gaps that I can see. Unless you have more material, I propose that we give it a couple of days for checking and copyediting, and then send it to FAC towards the end of the week, what do you think?

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and have appreciated and admired your tone. I've been tempted to add my comments, but I think you are handling it well and I feel that any addition I might make might make things worse. Thank you - and keep up the good work.

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I've added some stuff the NWT sent me, I'm waiting for page numbers before reffing. No, I don't have either book. Butterflies and dragonflies would be good, although I doubt that there is much unusual at this location

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Hey, MeegsC. I just started a thread on this on the Project Birds talk page. As you piqued my interest/frustration with this topic, and since I value your opinion, I'd be interested to hear your take on it.

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That will definitely be helpful! I'm on tour (Sri Lanka) at the moment, so I'm not likely to have huge amounts of time to work on it, but I'll definitely take advantage when I'm home again. Thanks!

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Hi RCS: Will do -- but I won't have access to the computer with the pictures until 27 December. I got a number of reasonable forest pix, though sadly the flowers weren't blooming while I was there.

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I don't like red links. I find them hideous to look at. I see no point to having links to pages that do not exist. I also find it annoying that there still remain things which do not have articles.

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in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks,

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I assume the docs reached you. This is almost certainly more info than you need, but just for the sake of completeness I thought I ought to say I can give details of the European records is needed

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expect to be challenged on it. And if you had bothered to read the whole message thread, you might have noticed that I wasn't the only one who found errors. And that's the last you'll hear from

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articles. Titchwell and Cley are no-brainers, but what else? Holme Dunes NWT/NNR has a visitor centre and car park, Holkham has hides and sells permits, any others that spring to mind?

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is probably ready or near-ready for FAC. I am tidying up some refs at the moment but once that's done, any comprehensiveness issues left? It'll then be a good template for the others :)

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Why thank you, Gerda! Pleasant interactions, like this one, have persuaded me to try this crazy loony bin again. Now if I can just avoid those who make my blood pressure go up… :)

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history of the reserve since 1929 and the military history. Archaeology is a bit thin, although there may not be much more available. Anyway, it's all yours for the time being.

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I've merged the content into mainspace, and put the potential sources to look at on talk. I've left the existing image for the time bing, plenty of time to sort out pics later.

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And if you haven't already, I also encourage you to contribute to the current discussion on whether or not to deploy Article Feedback v5 widely on the English Knowledge (XXG) (

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It's so easy to get focused on the drama and lose sight of what a remarkable creation we are a part of. By remarkable creation, I mean both Knowledge (XXG) and the Universe!

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I had a three-week birding holiday in Sri Lanka a few years back, one of the best places I've ever been to. I loved everything, the birds, people, temples, food — I envy you

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article still has not, to my knowledge, received an OTRS. Were you able to take some pictures of the habitat and, if so, would you be willing to upload an image? Thank you.

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Bishop's book is ISBN: 978-0952803102, while Taylor's is ISBN: 978-0954254506. Just in case you can find them at your local library — they're definitely not at mine! :)

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Snowman seems to have solved the problem. It appears that I was editing an old version of the page and inadvertently took out more edits than I meant. Details on my talk

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No big deal, I offered knowing you had an interest in the area, but I'm happy to do these on my own. The more I do, the more transferable info I have. Enjoy your tour

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Well done with the lifers, I saw Brown Wood Owl, don't remember Jungle Owlet though. I'll have a look and see which is easiest route (depends how much extra it adds)

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on the future of the Article Feedback Tool on the English-language Knowledge (XXG) is open; any and all comments, regardless of opinion and perspective, are welcome.

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in a tree (eg. eagle aerie, crow's nest, etc.) or a domed nest on the ground (e.g. some New World warblers, etc.) Some day soon, I have to finish up that article!

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possible ambiguity, but not when it is single words like "cat" and "dog". I know this is a minor issue, but I wanted to ask you what you thought about these edits.

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Because all the FAC pages are transcluded onto one big page, the FAC instructions ask us not to use templates on the FAC page, such as "yes" checkmarks. - Dank (

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Hi. I've added a ref for "supercilium drop" but I can't think of anything that could be used as a ref for my paleness comment - this is, I guess, just my OR.

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add on breeding (territoriality, nest site fidelity, courtship, etc.) and habitat, and I need to add at least some of the cultural stuff to the lead.

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names and binomials on the Wiki in order to make it possible to do more by automation. The main discussion on these lists is on the Birds talk page.

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because it's actually accessible! I had a look at the other BNA terns, and there seems no rhyme nor reason to which are full-access. Thanks again

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I am going to give you one legitimate source for one county, but that is all since you seem to have an infinite amount of free time. Here is

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seen. I imagine the Titchwell structure will be satisfactory. I should be able to track down some milhist, which will get us a copyedit from

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Hallo MeegsC, I think you might be the person to ask ... could you help, and in particular do you know others who could help, in getting

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to 300px. Looking at other such composites I saw 275 being used, and at that width it seemed good to me. I am all for 300 if it works.

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I'm struggling at the moment to find the two dates and one area in the table, I'll keep looking, but if you can help, that would be good.

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that change would have helped. Regarding a more current reference, it was already listed on the page.....23:01, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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All the speirops have been moved to the genus Zosterops. IOC and Clements both note as Zosterops. Reference:(Melo et al 2011)......

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to display the feedback form at the bottom of your pages. I also really like your suggestion to list feedback from all articles in a

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are done, that should be enough with the existing and potential FAs/FL for a featured topic. Do you fancy a collab on any of these?

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as I think this is the most appropriate place to discuss this matter and this is where I have place my initial response. Regards

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Hi. I've just noticed you replaced my photo. Do you think I have misidentified it? The replacement does appear to be a juvenile.

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Okay, I'll try to add what I can too. But not a bird I am too familiar with so I'm not too crash hot on comprehensiveness

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Thanks Shyamal! I don't use that style any more (too many problems), but I need to fix the articles I put it in...

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MeegsC, I'm a bit late in replying, but thank you for the spiny forest pictures. I went ahead and switched one into

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Thanks for kind offer, Snowman seems content to leave as is unless others object, and I'd rather at least give a

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I noticed you've been working this up, I've got Chantler & Dressens if you need page numbers, or the text

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I'll scan the pages, I think. Can you email me? I've mislaid your RL email, which I need for an attachment

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Umm... Can I ask why you think these ducks are homosexual? Male Mallards often hang around together.

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Well spotted with the ref. I wrote the article and stilled missed it. Still my favourite FA bird.

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time I posted, let me post it again, just to reinforce it — because if I post it often enough it

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Ground nests (cupped nests on the ground, with or without extension of structure forming a dome)

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doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.

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was reportedly collected in Honduras, the species has never been recorded there since?

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