Talk:Great spotted kiwi

To do
Sections to do:
 * Description
 * Distribution and habitat
 * Behavior
 * Reproduction
 * Done Shrewpelt (talk) 19:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Then: Shrewpelt (talk) 22:41, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Spell/Grammar check
 * Nominate for GA

Nominted for GA
I just nominated this article for GA, but under IP accidently. Sorry! Shrewpelt (talk) 16:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

predation
I have serious problems with the following statement. Once the Great Spotted Kiwi was also preyed upon by the Haast's Eagle, which is now extinct. I realise it is cited, but the source is hardly authoritative. Given that kiwis are secretive and nocturnal a more likely predator would have been the Laughing Owl (or even an adzebill). According to Worthy and Holdoway (2002) kiwi bones have turned up in owl middens. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  22:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Towards FAC
Not a bad looking article. For FAC a few points:


 * I have fixed alot of units per MOS, as well as made many plurals singular - there may be more (singular is best unless specifically talking about a pair or group of birds)


 * Egg dimensions - also specifying speeds when kiwi is said to run fast.


 * Probably expand upon conservation efforts


 * Ratites are not a family, and may be an artificial group. Touching on taxonomy of the kiwi group in general (which should be in more detail on the general kiwi page)

Anyway, good luck and a nice read. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Article is looking awesome!
It really is, illustrations are really good too.. cladogram, photo of habitat, range diagram, image of birds themselves - all very relavant and important. Nice and succinct overall too. Nice work! It's inspiring me to do some work on an NZ bird article myself..Kotare (talk) 06:02, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Style
I've done a number of tweaks on this article lately and on reading through it more I still think it looks very good. The writing style seems quite "minimalist", bits feel almost bullet pointed they're so brief. Some might say it lacks flow but on the other hand it's very succinct - it feels very much like it's been mostly written by someone with a scientific writing background.. Kotare (talk) 05:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Map showing distribution
Is wrong. Roroa can be found all over Arthur's Pass National Park. Last kiwi survey I took part in identified 30 odd kiwi in the direct vicinity of Arthur's Pass village itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.236.233.74 (talk) 02:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Great Spotted Kiwi
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Great Spotted Kiwi's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Clements": From Ostrich: Clements, J. (2007) From Okarito Kiwi: Clements, J (2007) 

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Move discussion in progress
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