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Mountain pigeon

Mountain pigeons are four species of birds in the genus Gymnophaps in the pigeon family Columbidae. They are found on islands in eastern Indonesia and Melanesia, where they inhabit hill and montane forest. They mostly have dull grey, white, or chestnut-brown plumage, with bright red skin around the eyes being their most distinctive feature. Males and females mostly look alike, but the Papuan mountain pigeon shows slight sexual dimorphism. Mountain pigeons are very social and are usually seen in flocks of at least 10–40 birds, although some species can form flocks of more than 100 individuals. They are generally quiet and do not make many vocalisations. However, they make a distinctive whooshing noise while leaving their high-altitude roosts to feed in the morning. Mountain pigeons are arboreal (living in trees) and feed on a wide variety of fruit like figs and drupes, mainly foraging for food in the canopy. All four species are listed as being of least concern on the IUCN Red List.

Mountain pigeon

5 articles

Papuan mountain pigeon

Pale mountain pigeon

Buru mountain pigeon

Seram mountain pigeon

Contributor(s): AryKun

A self-contained genus topic with a clearly defined scope that I've been working on for about four months now. Four GAs and one FA, all of them very recently promoted. This series contains all the published info I was able to find and is likely the most comprehensive work about the genus you could find. --AryKun (talk) 08:09, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support: The genus and all four species, joined by a category for the genus, all at quality. Great work! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 15:11, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:53, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~Comments~~ the main article features usages of "they" too close to each other, especially in the lead, while this applies to the other ones for the term "it". Make sure date formatting is consistent for all of them and the distribution/habitat section should be merged with the above in Buru and Seram mountain pigeon articles per overly short size, also the following section on Seram has two consecutive paras both comprising one sentence; that needs to be worked on. I will support once these issues are fixed and honestly, top job working so hard on finding all this information from fully reliable sources! --K. Peake 07:44, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged some of the smaller subsections in the articles. The date formatting is yyyy-mm-dd everywhere where that much info is provided and yyyy where I couldn't find month and day. I can't really do much about "they" and "it", I've tried to vary the nouns and pronouns, but only so many you can use. It's a bit like using "he", "she", or "they" in a bio, you can't really change it around beyond a point. The distribution sections can't be merged anywhere else and honestly are best left as a small para. AryKun (talk) 10:39, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AryKun Thanks for working on the articles and I am fine with the usage of those words upon further consideration, yet the date formatting layout still remains inconsistent, for example using 11 November 2021 and 2021-11-17 in this article. --K. Peake 12:25, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kyle Peake Okay, I've gone through all the articles and replaced dd month yyyy dates with yyyy-mm-dd (it was the cite iucn ref defaults that formatted them that way). AryKun (talk) 10:23, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support, I love to see topics about animals. They're definitely more important than video games, to say the least. Panini! • 🥪 17:59, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update, if this sounded sarcastic that was not my intention. Panini! • 🥪 00:07, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all species in the genus are good or featured, with no extinct species or subspecies articles to complicate things. Very good job, and it is truly nice to see more animal good topics. Dare I hope to see more bird genera- or even families- nominated as GTs in the future? --SilverTiger12 (talk) 16:33, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This topic has been Approved for promotion. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work. A bot will promote this topic within one hour. Please double check that {{Featured topic box |title= is exactly what you want the topic name to be, is short, and is unformatted. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 12:38, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Promotion completed successfully. Don't forget to add {{Wikipedia:Featured topics/Mountain pigeon}} to the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Good topics. NovemBot (talk) 13:10, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]