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Category:Birds of (African countries)

Isee back in 2016 someone deleted Categories: Birds of...(African countries)but just for the African countries, nowhere else. Long term project is to try to restore them in some fashion....Pvmoutside (talk) 11:06, 17 July 2023

New genera per IOC

In August the IOC created (or restored) two genera within the tyrant flycatchers, family Tyrannidae: Acrochordupus and Tyranniscus. I'm in the process of expanding the articles for the five affected species. Can someone make templates and whatever else is needed so their taxoboxes recognize the new genera? I looked at the directions for making the genus template but am not comfortable trying to make them. Thank you. Craigthebirder (talk) 22:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Templates {{Taxonomy/Acrochordopus}} [editid (see below)] and {{Taxonomy/Tyranniscus}} created.  —  Jts1882 | talk  09:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you again. I should be able to do some more of them myself. Craigthebirder (talk) 10:16, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

It is fairly straight forward once you've done a few. If you add a taxon which doesn't have a taxonomy template, the edit preview of the taxobox has a "fix" link which takes you to a page with the template partially filled in. You only need to add the rank, parent and a reference. But if you are more comfortable getting someone else to create it, you can continue to ask here and should usually get a prompt response.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

That should be Acrochordopus (IOC 14.2). Kweetal nl (talk) 09:09, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Moved to {{Taxonomy/Acrochordopus}}.  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Night herons

The night herons articles need some attention. Two of the Gorsachius species have recently been moved to monotypic genera, with appropriate changes to the species articles,but the genera articles have some inconsistenies. The move is mentioned in the Gorsachius genus article at the taxonomy section, but elsewhere there is discussion of the four night herons, their distribution, behaviour, etc. Other night heron articles (e.g. Nycticorax) might also need updating on the changing genera.  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

What are the changes to Nycticorax? FunkMonk (talk) 16:10, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

The only change I can think of in Nycticorax is that the AOS have got rid of the hyphen "night-heron" (Chesser et al. 2024) and joined the rest of the world in "night heron". I've just copyedited it out of black-crowned night heron (where the hyphen had been spammed in into multiple locations where it never was originally, such as European reference citations) - MPF (talk) 20:01, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Grey parrot#Requested move 8 October 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Grey parrot#Requested move 8 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 12:01, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Tanagra violacea -> Violaceous euphonia?

I came across a mention of Tanagra violacea in one of Gerald Durrell's books. There's no current article, and as far as I can tell it's because of the reclassification of some tanagers as euphonias. I was going to create a redirect to Violaceous euphonia, which is what I think the correct name is, but I can't find a source that supports that. I figured this would be the right place to ask -- would that be a valid redirect? (talk - contribs - library) 09:42, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Mike Christie, it's listed as an (unreferenced) synonym in the species box, so I have no doubt that a redirect is appropriate Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:45, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks -- I went ahead and created it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:16, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Avibase has Tanagra violacea rodwayi as a protonym of Euphonia violacea rodwayi (also as junior synonym in synonym list). It's not listed for Euphonia violacea for some reason, but it does support Violaceous euphonia as the best target for the redirect.  —  Jts1882 | talk  11:21, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Heads-up - AI websites warning

Just seen this posted on twitter by Alex Lees (Chair, BOURC); a warning about a couple of AI websites full of grotesque misinformation. Looks like the websites "aviandiscovery dot com" and "animalinformation dot com" should be added to any blacklist we have of unreliable sources. FYI, Chestnut-winged Hookbill is a South American Furnariid, and not a southeast Asian parrot, as claimed by these websites! I guess none of the regular contributors would be fooled, but we'll need to watch out for edits by less experienced editors. Unfortunately this sort of thing is only going to get worse with time - MPF (talk) 17:33, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

2024 taxonomy update

I got some mail regarding updates to the eBird/Clements checklist. Information here. For those folks who are not subscribed to Birds of the World the site is going to be open-access for a brief window from 14 to 18 November starting at noon Eastern Time. Information on that (along with a webinar) here. Should be useful for those editors who don't currently have access to the site. Reconrabbit 17:09, 7 November 2024 (UTC)