User:Craigthebirder

Craigthebirder, as you have no doubt guessed, is an avid birdwatcher named Craig. I'm from northeast Ohio, USA.

I'm a fairly new contributor who started in the usual way with a couple of dozen edits, nearly all of which were small grammatical fixes or other cleanup-type changes.

I added my first full article (The Army Air Forces in World War II) in May 2016.

U.S. state bird lists
Alabama • Arkansas • Delaware • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • New Hampshire • Rhode Island • Tennessee • Virginia

Canadian province and territory bird lists
Manitoba • Northwest Territories • Nova Scotia • Prince Edward Island • Saskatchewan • Yukon

U.S. national park bird lists
Acadia • Big Bend • Biscayne • Black Canyon of the Gunnison • Channel Islands • Cuyahoga Valley • Denali • Dry Tortugas • Everglades • Grand Canyon • Grand Teton • Great Smoky Mountains • Guadalupe Mountains • Isle Royale • Kenai Fjords • Mount Rainier • Olympic • Shenandoah • Yosemite

Other bird lists
South America • Aruba • Bonaire • Curaçao • Falkland Islands • Guadeloupe • Martinique • Saint Pierre and Miquelon • Baxter State Park • Accipitriformes species • Anatidae species • Antbird species • Cisticolidae species • Cuckoo species • Fringillidae (true finch) species • Heron species • Icterid species • Laridae species • Lark species • New World (American) sparrow species • Old World flycatcher species • Ovenbird species • Owl species • Ploceidae species • Rail species • Sunbird species • Tanager species • Tapaculo species

Other bird-related articles
Ampay tapaculo • Black-fronted brushfinch • Choco brushfinch • Hofmann's sunbird • Jalca tapaculo • Loja tapaculo • Merida brushfinch • Santa Marta screech owl • Utcubamba tapaculo

Other articles
The Army Air Forces in World War II • United States Army in World War II • History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II • Bald Eagle (clipper) • Glory of the Seas (clipper) • Romance of the Sea (clipper) • USCGC Willow (WAGL-253)

Pages I've heavily edited
In September 2016 I began updating the existing "List of birds of ..." pages for the western hemisphere to the most recent available bird lists and taxonomies. I also added bird lists for those US states and Canadian provinces which didn't have them. Maintaining them was an ongoing task, with annual updates of North and Middle American taxonomy and more frequent ones of South American, plus periodic updates to state, province, and national park lists published by their respective ornithological associations or other bodies. I also annually updated the lists for the continent of Africa and 10 of its countries plus Thailand - all places I've either birded or hope to bird - and 17 European country lists which were previously rudimentary, unsourced, or far out of date. After doing the August 2021 North American taxonomic and list updates, I turned over the maintenance of all of the lists except those of South America, U.S. national parks, and my home Ohio to other editors.

In spring 2021 I began expanding the stubs of South and Central American and Caribbean bird species articles. I've so far completed 1629: those for screamers (2 species), ducks, geese, and swans (8), the guan/chachalaca/curassow family (34), New World quail (13), the nightjar and allies family (35), potoos (5), swifts (24), hummingbirds (316), cuckoos (16), pigeons and doves (42), rails, gallinules, and coots (39), trumpeters (genus and 3 species), plovers (6), seedsnipes (3), snipes (3), gulls and terns (6), hawks (9), owls (41), quetzals and trogons (15), kingfishers (4), todies (1), motmots (7), jacamars (15), the puffbird family (38), New World barbets (13), the prong-billed barbet (1), toucans (37), woodpeckers (92), seriemas (1), falcons and caracaras (13), New World parrots (74), ovenbirds (316), antbirds (in progress, 196 so far), antpittas (2), gnateaters (6), tapaculos (48), royal flycatchers (5), crescentchests (5), wrens (62), gnatcatchers (15), the mockingbird family (17), New World sparrows (3), chat-tanagers (2), Hispaniolan tanagers (4), spindalises (2), the wrenthrush (1), Cuban warblers (2), mitrospingid tanagers (4), the cardinal family (21), and "true" tanagers (1).