Talk:Bonaparte's gull

Seen at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, U.K. sea side, some 50 Bonaparte's Gull video with sound and stills taken. Date Monday 14th November 2005. According to the literature rare vagrant to Europe so wondering how they made the crossing from USA/Canada area ? They looked healthy enough and quite chatty.

Mike Sussex GB


 * wrong ID - why not post a videograb for anaysis? jimfbleak 08:04, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

More than what?
The last sentence of the text, in § Habitat, is
 * They are graceful in flight, more like terns.

More graceful than what? Than other gulls? That's the obvious inference, but it isn't clear, and the sentence isn't really grammatical without it even in context.

I'm specifically pinging and  as respectively the latest and the first contributors to the page, which  just as it is now.

Please me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 02:29, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * , I just started working on this article yesterday. So far, I've written the taxonomy section. The rest of the article is unchanged from what it was before I started; at some point, I'll get to the habitat section, but it might not be for a while! As for the original writer's intent, I'm assuming s/he meant that Bonaparte's gulls fly more like terns than they do like other gulls; many references refer to their flight as "tern-like". MeegsC (talk) 04:18, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick answer, . I see no hurry in this. I just wanted to have somebody who knows the subject to tackle it. --Thnidu (talk) 04:27, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Nesting
, I'm curious about why you deleted the sentence
 * They nest in conifers, sometimes on the ground.

Isn't this useful and relevant? Or is it not attested in the sources?

--Thnidu (talk) 01:04, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Started the rewrite of the section. It'll be added back in with more detail. MeegsC (talk) 04:57, 19 December 2015 (UTC)