Talk:Greater crested tern

Subspecies
Do subspecies have a taxonomic order, or is it just for species? Should taxonomic order be described or linked to somewhere? Is "taxonomic order" jargon? Snowman (talk) 11:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Population
With regard to GCT population (presumably T. b. cristata) around Australia, HANZAB 3, p.608, says 'Populations - No estimates of abundance', but a rough aggregate of figures mentioned for several breeding localities, mainly of pairs or nests, indicate a breeding population of at least 100,000 individuals. Maias (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Mortality
HANZAB 3 also mentions (pp.607-609) disturbance by people leading to predation of eggs and chicks by gulls, predation by cats and dogs, occasionally hit by cars or bullets or killed by collisions with wires or light-towers. Maias (talk) 03:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Brilliant, many thanks, jimfbleak (talk) 06:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Phylogeny comment
Hi -

The phylogeny box towards the top of this article looks bad (at least in Safari). Should it be left -- rather than right aligned? MidgleyDJ (talk) 23:12, 11 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Moved, what do you think? Looks worse to me in FF3. text is too close, but I don't know what i can do about that. jimfbleak (talk) 05:29, 12 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not sure either -- though it looks better in Safari. Perhaps convert the tree to an image. This way you could include thumbnails of each bird? MidgleyDJ (talk) 07:47, 12 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to get Village pump (technical) to help on this. Not keen on adding thumbnails, make it too big for where it has to go in article. I might do as image if all else fails, but rather keep the flexibility of this format. jimfbleak (talk) 07:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I added a margin element. It seems to work for me. MidgleyDJ (talk) 07:57, 12 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Brilliant, works in FF3, and looks even better in IE jimfbleak (talk) 08:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Image layout
There are several problems with the image's layout on a 1440x900 screen. Most of the text in the first section, taxonomy, is squashed between an infobox and an image. The second image in Distribution and habitat moved the title of the next heading, Behaviour to the right. Within that section again the text is squashed between two images on either side. The fourth one moves the heading Feeding to the right. And the last image of the whole article moves the last section's title Status to the right, as well. In the section Description, inches shouldn't be abreviated to in. 64.18.144.131 (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Old World
The opening states that "nests in dense colonies on coastlines and islands in the tropical and subtropical Old World" but then it goes on to include the central Pacific and Australia which do not appear to be part of the Old World. Does the openning need to be edited? Dbiel (Talk) 02:20, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

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