Talk:Egg tossing (behavior)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 September 2019 and 27 November 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kensarah1234. Peer reviewers: Kab055mun, Hfarrell1, Ksilver19.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): K.Lip. Peer reviewers: Mam045.

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Making some additions to the article
For my class assignment I have chosen this article to add more information to. Some ideas on what I will be adding to this article are more detailed reasons why some birds do this behaviour, how egg tossing may be prevented in some species, if the males are the ones who will incubate the eggs and not females. What groups this behaviour is usually osbserved in and how this behaviour may affect the amount of offspring that survive. Will also discuss that this is not only a common practice in communal breeding species but in brood parasites and can give some examples. Some of the references that I will be using: Bibliography : Brown, Charles R.; Brown, Mary Bomberger (1988). "The Costs and Benefits of Egg Destruction by Conspecifics in Colonial Cliff Swallows". The Auk. 105(4): 737–748. doi:10.2307/4087387. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4087387.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A874b9f0e42671dde8885412f88d5efcf Craig, John L. (1980-05-01). "Pair and group breeding behaviour of a communal gallinule, the pukeko, Porphyrio P. Melanotus". Animal Behaviour. 28 (2): 593–603. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(80)80068-6. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347280800686 "Cooperative Breeding". web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-02. https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Cooperative_Breeding.html Koenig, Walter D.; Dickinson, Janis L. (2004-04-22). Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521530996. https://books.google.ca/books?id=wz93GCISCWMC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=egg+tossing+in+birds&source=bl&ots=qeYmd3XUsC&sig=PrroSXbFCtLdD9Do0tnxaNB5CyQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW47bD9NHWAhXJZCYKHSCeAg8Q6AEIXzAM#v=onepage&q=egg%20tossing%20in%20birds&f=false Schmaltz, Gregory; Quinn, James S.; Lentz, Cindy (2008-07-01). "Competition and waste in the communally breeding smooth-billed ani: effects of group size on egg-laying behaviour". Animal Behaviour. 76(1): 153–162. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.018.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347208001371?via%3Dihub Vehrencamp, Sandra L. (2000-05-01). "Evolutionary routes to joint-female nesting in birds". Behavioral Ecology. 11 (3): 334–344. ISSN 1045-2249. doi:10.1093/beheco/11.3.334. https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/11/3/334/229784/Evolutionary-routes-to-joint-female-nesting-in

Any other suggestions? K.Lip (talk) 12:37, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Your draft is well done. You chose what appear to be some great references. I also like how you added a link to keywords throughout your article. The only suggestion I can think of would be to add more information/elaborate more on the key-points of your article. (As this is just the draft I'm sure you were planning on doing this anyways.)Katied95 (talk) 01:05, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Katied95, I will be adding more information to the key points. Thank you for your review. K.Lip (talk) 11:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Changes to the article
I will be starting to add information to the existing article. My plan will be to rearrange what is already on the page and add references that are missing to what is already added. I will also be adding more subsections to the article. K.Lip (talk) 11:35, 1 November 2017 (UTC)


 * On a minor point, we write references AFTER punctuation, i.e. blahblah.[1][2] not blahblah[1][2]. There are a lot of instances to fix in the article. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:43, 8 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback, if you have any other suggestion on how I may be able to improve the article it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks againK.Lip (talk) 20:11, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Adding to the article
Hello, I will be adding to this article for my class assignments. So far I have added another species that demonstrates this behaviour, the Black-headed duck. My plan so far is to add to the section "Egg tossing by brood parasites" and expand on other sections that could use more information (Kensarah1234 (talk) 01:56, 14 October 2019 (UTC)).