User:Padavies/Sandbox

This is my sandbox. Someone else was using the main one.

I found a new link for the Oriole:


 * Listen to call (Vogelstimme anhören).

It all started when I got a card from a friend in Sweden with a picture of the Oriole on the stamp. I looked up the Swedish name on Wikipedia. There was a link to the sound the oriole makes, but it was broken, so I dug around on the Nabu site till I found it. I speak a little German (but no Swedish!). I then got myself a Wiki account and edited the Swedish entry to point to the right page. I switched to English where there was no link, so I added it in there, likewise the French... The German entry was naturally correct.

In order to find the German entry on Nabu I had to find out the German for Oriole. This I did by looking it up in a list of birds I had been given at a bird sanctuary in France, "Liste des espèces encensés sur la Reserve de la Cabane de Moins" which I published on my return from France on the Wellesbourne Web, of which I am webmaster.

I could tell the French that as well as the Russians, the Swedes put the Oriole on a stamp...

I could tell the inverse to my friend in Sweden (who is German, incidentally!)