Talk:Garden sunbird

New picture found.
I have a new picture of this bird, found in South Asia ( India). How can I post it here? Rohann pal (talk) 16:16, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Undiscussed move to "Garden Sunbird"
Contesting this. It remains Olive-backed Sunbird in IOC (version 13.2), which, as an international authority, is wikipedia's preferred ornithological authority. Ebird doesn't have any juristiction here. Please revert. - MPF (talk) 22:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I've put in a technical move request to take this back to Olive-backed sunbird. Sub31k (talk) 18:55, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Amended range
These birds range from Southern China across SE Asia and Northern Australia. We had a pair breed successfully on our porch this year in N Qld. They are not limited to the Phillipines, and the article should describe the full range of the species. Charles Randles (talk) 12:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)


 * As discussed on your talk page, the species has been split with the garden sunbird inheriting the binomial. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  03:05, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * We had an article on the Olive-backed sunbird, a species that has a range across South-east Asia and Northeast Australia. That article has been repurposed, reduced, and edited down to a subspecies in the Phillipines.
 * The Olive-backed Sunbird still exists (we had a pair investigate our shrubbery for nesting today!) without a Wikipedia article.
 * May I suggest we roll back a while to a page that covers all subspecies of the Sunbird - not just the Philippines subspecies -- and then let the ardent Filipino Sunbird fans make their own page?
 * I feel that this narrowing of scope of a good, broad article to a regional subspecies has made our coverage less encyclopaedic.
 * I welcome other thoughts.
 * tl:dr: We had an article for a bird with a range across the whole of SE Asia and NE Australia. That article was repurposed to apply only to a regional subspecies. This was not a helpful change. Charles Randles (talk) 14:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)