Talk:Blue nuthatch

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I have not reviewed a bird article before, so some preliminary comments, some of which may be wholly ignorant because I know very little about birds from a scientific sense:
 * 1) Can you educate me as to why the very fun but "anyone can edit" w.xeno-canto.org/species/Sitta-azurea is a WP:RS as opposed to a wiki-type site akin to, imdb or something similar that in other contexts we don't use here? Are there previous bird FACs that passed that used this site for sound recordings, or a past explanation?  Montanabw (talk)  01:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It's akin to an external link (which we do use here) – which don't require their own references. More importantly, it's a much more hands on kind of thing by the very nature of the activity; every tom, dick and harry is not involved; the context makes it much more selective than something like IMDb. Proof in the pudding: the database is predominantly contributed to by professional ornithologists/biologists and the like and indeed, the three recording there of the blue nuthatch are by: Marcus Braun, a Post Doc at the B Cube Center for Molecular Bioengineering] of Technische Universitaet Dresden; Frank Lambert, who has a PhD in ornithology and used to work for IUCN(!) and Mike Nelson who is a full-time guide for BirdTour Asia and has made over 10,000 bird recordings. Yes, my FA on Przevalski's nuthatch.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1)  LEAD:  I see Sittidae redirects to Nuthatch. So I wonder if instead of saying, "a species of bird in the family Sittidae. It is a medium-sized nuthatch," perhaps the two sentences could be merged for the benefit of the non-scientist, something akin to "a species of bird in the family Sittidae, or  nuthatch. It is a medium-sized member of that family, measuring..."   Montanabw (talk)  01:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I like it! Done.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:21, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Is there a more technical term of art in bird-land than "upper parts" or IS that the term of art? Can you link to a parts of the bird chart somewhere or clarify if by "upper parts" you mean just the back or the back and head...?  (Note:  upperparts is linked to Anatomical terms of location, but is not described there) Similarly, "the belly of a very dark blue" means just the back section of the underside?  The "chest" extends to the legs?  Montanabw (talk)  01:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Can you link to covert feather at first use? That's another technical word.   Montanabw (talk)  01:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Second paragraph of the lead could be expanded a bit if you wanted to, clarifying food, habitat, etc. Lead overall is a little light in terms of a full summary of the article, I'd say a 25% tp 30% expansion would not be a bad notion. Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Any possibility of wikilinking some more of the terminology in the "voice" section if articles exist? I presume the phonetic renderings of the birdcalls are in a standardized format used by bird experts?  Is there any way I can verify that?  Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) Not a fan of one-sentence subsections, such as "Predation" - expand or merge? (Not sure if merging with "threats" is appropriate, but that's a possibility) Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) No photos available? OK if not, just wondering. Nice drawings, at least.   Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) Clarify if Poecilositta and Sittidea are the same thing? Or link Poecilositta?  Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) Phylogenetic tree detail box overlaps with infobox on my laptop; may want to reposition that a bit.  Montanabw (talk)  02:15, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) Description is good, but "differs significantly" is not explained - what about its look differs significantly? You touch on the wing edges thing in the taxonomy section, but it is still unclear if that is the "significant" thing.  Also, how can it be differentiated from the velvet nuthatch?  Montanabw (talk)  02:26, 12 July 2014 (UTC)


 * More to come . All for now.  Hope this raises the kinds of questions you anticipate from any other non-bird-artile reviewer.    Montanabw (talk)  01:44, 12 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Already being addressed by Fuhghettaboutit since 2019. 136.27.38.4 (talk) 01:07, 17 May 2020 (UTC)