Talk:African penguin

Birds Start‑class High‑importance

African penguin is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Please do not substitute this template.BirdsWikipedia:WikiProject BirdsTemplate:WikiProject Birdsbird articles

Start

This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Birds To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea (more)
Cleanup : Bullfinch • Vesper sparrow • Bird flight • Bird bath (more)
Copyedit : Plushcap • Magpie duck • Saker falcon (more)
Expand : Phalarope • Nidicolous • Gouldian finch • Cathartes • Cnemophilidae • Avian malaria (more)
NPOV : Debeaking • Driven grouse shooting • Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (more)
Stubs : Cathartiformes • Semiplumbeous hawk • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill • Sunda scops owl (more)
Update : Coal tit • Scottish crossbill • New Caledonian lorikeet • Operation Migration (more)
Verify : Argus (bird) • Blyth's frogmouth • Nik Borrow • Pytilia • Fregata • Chestnut-headed tesia • Darter • Pallid scops owl • Starling (more)
Wikify : Ninox boobook ocellata • The Institute for Bird Populations (more)
Other : Add photos to bird articles needing photos (search Flickr for free images). Add taxonomic authorities to genus articles.

More outstanding tasks at the project's cleanup listing, Category:Birds articles needing attention, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Todo.

Template:WP1.0

Old talk

Can the bottom-most pic Image:Jackass-Penguin.jpg be removed ? Does it provide anything the other two pics don't provide ? Having 3 pics for a small article somehow seems out of balance. (Apologies to the picture-takers and contributors, there's nothing wrong with the pic in its own merit though) Jay 16:18, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I am not one of the picture-takers, but I think the picture is fine. Sure, it unbalances the layout of the article a bit, but they're good, high-quality pictures. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 06:30, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Kind of funny... only less than two weeks ago you complained about 3 being too much, and now there are many more. I'm sort of neutral on the matter, but what do others think? --Nick Roberts 15:35, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

African penguins

Did you know that the African penguins get to be 4.4 to11lbs and get to be as tall as 68-70cmand when they get hot they send blood to the part thats hot and then cool them self down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.56.42.92 (talk) 19:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

wounder y theyname them that even though i read the hole thing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.162.239.134 (talk) 14:24, 25 October 2009)

Probably because they are penguins from Africa. Perhaps. Just a wild guess. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rerated as start

This was a B class rated, but really needs a good deal of work so rerated as start. Casliber (talk · contribs) 01:20, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Improved the structure of the article a little and added some information. (Drakenwolf (talk) 20:37, 6 May 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Range

In the "taxonomy" section, it states: "The other banded penguins are the African Penguin's closest relatives, and are all found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere". My understanding is that ALL penguins live south of the equator (ecept for the ones in captivity, of course). So is "mainly" really appropriate?