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List of birds of New Brunswick

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Nominator(s): B3251 (talk) 04:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

First ever featured list nomination! I updated the list (additions/removals/tag changes) with current information, which can be found here (this is not a full list but rather an addendum update from 2023, so I also used the 2017 checklist to double check the tags). I also added photos, copyedited some of the families' descriptions, and added a description introducing the reader to New Brunswick and its geography. I took reference from the recently-promoted List of birds of Alberta and its nomination to make edits to the New Brunswick list, and reused a good amount of references to make sure each family description has citations here as well. Improving New Brunswick-related topics on Wikipedia has been my top priority since I began actively editing a year ago, and I'm more than happy to nominate this for featured list status. I do not have access to the book that the Alberta list nominator used for the family descriptions so I am more than happy to rewrite them if needed using alternate sources such as Birds of the World, which I have an institutional access to. B3251 (talk) 04:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments

• Move Old World vulture link to first usage
• Suggest linking Old World flycatchers
• Passerine is inconsistently capitalised
• "The vireos are a group of small to medium-sized passerine birds mostly restricted to the New World," - link New World?
• "The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World" - same with Old World
• "The yellow-breasted chat is the [....] and are" - grammatical disagreement here
• Under Cardinals and allies there's no line break after the order and family
• That's all I got - awesome work!!! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 18:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

  Y @ChrisTheDude everything fixed, thank you for the comment! B3251 (talk) 02:39, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

• Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:08, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Grungaloo

Great to see this! I took the List of Birds of Alberta to FL and I'm glad to see other Canadian provinces getting the same treatment!

• Lead - Accidental vs Rare. I wouldn't use the word "rare" to describe accidentals since then it's hard to distinguish how it's different from rare. Try something like "a species that does not often occur...".
• which has disputed sovereignty between New Brunswick and Maine - The sovereignty dispute is between Canada and the USA technically, would reword this to state that but you can still say that each Province/State includes it in their territory.
• Gulls, terns, and skimmers - I left out any discussion of skimmers in the family description since none appear in Alberta, but for New Bruinswick I'd suggest adding a line describing them. If you'd like I can look at the reference book I used and add that in.

Everything else looks great! grungaloo (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

I have made the adequate changes but if you could help out with the reference for skimmers it would be much appreciated. I have institution access to birdsoftheworld but not much was mentioned about skimmers aside from "skimmers use their highly specialized bills to snag their prey from the surface of calm water, often in gracefully coordinated bands." Thanks! B3251 (talk) 22:13, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to ping @Grungaloo B3251 (talk) 10:56, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

MPGuy2824

• "They typically feed on seeds and fruit plants and produce". Add a comma after "plants".
• "Their soft plumage is cryptically coloured". Probably worth linking "cryptically coloured" to camouflage.
• In Shearwaters and petrels: "long outer functional primary". Either a word is missing at the end, or a wikilink needs to be added.
• "The bill is also long, decurved in the case of the ibises" Add a wikilink to explain "decurved", or replace with "downwardly curved". -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:59, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

   Done @MPGuy2824 B3251 (talk) 18:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

  Support for prose. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:45, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Dylan620

Big fan of birds here. Always love seeing the cute little feathery critters whenever I'm out and about. I'll try to have an image review done within the next couple days :) Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 12:29, 23 April 2024 (UTC)