User:Sabine's Sunbird

User:Sabine's Sunbird/training

I've moved most of my bio way down this page. It's out of date and i keep it out of nostalgia, much like everything I do here.

10.5 to(-)

18 km2

28 - 46 g

3500 –

11 km2

2 m

4 - 10.6 ha
 * Glossary of bird terms

Kanban
An attempt to add some order to my projects. First off a backlog/ dumping ground. Then a hard core focus of expansion. After that polishing. Anything being worked on can be dumped back into backlog, the ida is to keep the focus on a single main expansion target at a time. Nothing in this kanban denotes ownership. Please feel free to dump stuff in the backlog, focus is on combatting systematic bias and higher level taxa. Learn about kanbans here.

Toolbox
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Internal tools and links
 * BirdLife International
 * Birds of North America
 * Authors' Names
 * Index of Public Domain Images
 * Handbook of the Birds of the World
 * Notornis
 * Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
 * American Museum of Natural History Publications
 * Flufftail monograph
 * WikiProject Birds/IOC names
 * WikiProject Birds
 * WikiProject Birds/Popular pages
 * test page
 * Glossary of bird terms
 * Images and media for deletion
 * WikiProject Laundromat
 * family survey
 * My Fridge Door
 * Example requests for permission
 * fiji project
 * table for project
 * huh
 * My fave Wikipedia essay
 * Writing Bird articles.
 * User:Sabine's Sunbird/northern storm petrel

Useful article storage (I'll lose them in my favorites folders)

 * Swallow nest phylogeny
 * Oilbird DNA
 * Pitta evolution
 * Happy wren song
 * Happy wren paper
 * Saddlebill stork egyptian language
 * Flufftail biology

Old bio (Ignore)
I'm a trans-national bum who is currently working as a writer in New Zealand. I'm not sure how much time this will leave me for Wikipedia, but I've been away too long and the articles are calling me strongly now. My major kick at the moment is improving the standard of bird family articles. Quite frankly most of them are a disgrace. I also randomly attach myself to subjects I feel are under-represented on Wikipedia.

I have yet to decide if I'm an inclusionist, deletionist or simply apathetic. I suspect I'm a mergeist. Keep it but don't split it endlessly. I object strongly to fiction not labeled correctly, and don't think that every name in fiction deserves a mention, anymore than any person in life deserves a mention. I have yet to see one convincing argument why every school ever is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, but I don't actually care enough to fight about it. If enough people care about it (and by God don't they just), I'm content to let it slide. It's not like I come across schools very often pressing random button, and to be honest they are usually better articles than average.

This user has begrudgingly began to use citation templates. Try not to crow.

Also, it's Sabine's Sunbird, not Sabine Sunbird. The Sunbird of Sabine, as it were, or possibly named after said Sabine.

500th edit: Seabird 1000th edit: Farallon Islands 2000th edit: Talk:Albatross 3000th edit: Storm-petrel 4000th Edit: Bird flight 5000th edit: Peer review/Mammal/archive1 6000th edit: Asity 10,000th edit: Cuckoo-roller 15,000th edit: Paltry Tyrannulet 24,000th edit: Pitta

Bird was a collaborative work but I put more work into it than I did my other FAs so I'm listing it here. Cattle Egret was a co-nom with Jimfbleak that I contributed a considerable amount of writing to, as was Bee-eater. Pigeon Guillemot was a collaboration with Riley.

I discovered Wikipedia in late October 2004. The authorities have been warned. They weren't impressed, however, and are still eating doughnuts. In 2008, for reasons that defy explanation, I was made an admin. I can only speculate there was a keg party and everyone thought it would be funny to demote me to the post. At any rate I have managed to not destroy Wikipedia yet. I have a sock puppet, User:The Sunbird of Sabine, which I use to edit away from my personal computer in order to prevent naughty types from stealing my login and wrecking havoc.

Destub drive
• Black-breasted puffbird

• Ochre-rumped antbird

• Lafresnaye's vanga

• Noronha elaenia

• Madagascan magpie-robin

• Lesser hornero

• Lemon-throated barbet

• Diademed sandpiper-plover

• Mascarene paradise flycatcher

• Adamawa turtle dove

• Fulvous parrotbill

• White-eared sibia

• Cattle tyrant

• Ashy woodpecker

• Blackish rail

• Black-and-cinnamon fantail

• Striped flufftail

• Bar-throated minla

• Keel-billed motmot

• Japanese thrush

• Chestnut-naped forktail

• Barred owlet-nightjar

• Beautiful jay

• Usambiro barbet

• Black-capped foliage-gleaner

• Madagascan blue pigeon

• Esacus

• Fasciated antshrike

• Oreoicidae

• Ashy-headed babbler

• Moustached babbler

• Apo myna

• Short-legged ground roller

• Palau fantail

• Hooded pitohui

• Surfbird

• Ward's trogon

• Pitta-like ground roller

• Andean negrito

• Bonin white-eye

• Water thick-knee

• Tit hylia

• Andaman woodpecker

• Cuban warbler

• Pink-necked green pigeon

• Ferruginous partridge

• Chatham shag

Stuff I've Messed Up

 * Antbird
 * Auk
 * Channel-billed Cuckoo
 * Columbidae
 * Cuckoo-shrike
 * Crab Plover
 * Fantail
 * Fiji Woodswallow
 * Kagu
 * Parrot
 * Procellariiformes
 * Storm-petrel
 * Wattle-eye

Stuff I've Made Up

 * Adzebill
 * African Civet
 * African Finfoot
 * Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
 * American Black Oystercatcher
 * Antipodean Albatross
 * Appert's Tetraka
 * Arabuko Sokoke National Park
 * Ashy Storm-petrel
 * Audubon's Shearwater
 * Australian Owlet-nightjar
 * Austral Thrush
 * Bach Ma National Park
 * Barau's Petrel
 * Biodiversity of New Caledonia
 * Biodiversity of New Zealand
 * Bird conservation
 * Bird flight
 * Black-billed Amazon
 * Black-billed Turaco
 * Black-footed Albatross
 * Blue Petrel
 * Bonin Petrel
 * Bugun Liocichla
 * Bukidnon Woodcock
 * Campbell Island Teal
 * Cape Petrel
 * Carl Giles (Not logged in)
 * Cassin's Auklet
 * Cat Tien National Park
 * Christmas Shearwater
 * Coenocorypha
 * Creodonta
 * Dwarf elephant
 * Edward's Pheasant
 * Egg War
 * Farallon Islands
 * Flufftail
 * Fulmarine Petrel
 * Galapagos Rail
 * Giant petrel
 * Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew
 * Golden-shouldered Parrot
 * Great albatross
 * Grey-backed Tern
 * Grey-cheeked Mangabey
 * Grey-faced Liocichla
 * Grey-headed Albatross
 * Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
 * Hornby's Storm-petrel
 * Island biogeography
 * Island restoration
 * Island Thrush
 * Kadavu
 * Laysan Albatross
 * Laysan Finch
 * Laysan Rail
 * Lear's Macaw
 * Least Auklet
 * Lord Howe Island Rail
 * Kittlitz's Murrelet
 * Madagascar Red Owl
 * Marbled Murrelet
 * Masafuera Rayadito
 * Mekosuchine crocodiles
 * Moa-nalos
 * Namaqua Chameleon
 * National Park of Upper Niger
 * Northern Royal Albatross
 * North Pacific albatross
 * Obscure Berrypecker
 * Otter Civet
 * Parakeet Auklet
 * Peruvian Diving Petrel
 * Pheasant Pigeon
 * Philopatry
 * Plotopteridae
 * Polar dinosaurs in Australia
 * Pseudobulweria
 * Raso Skylark
 * Red-fan Parrot
 * Red-tailed Tropicbird
 * Rhinoceros Auklet
 * Rufous Hornero
 * Scrimshaw
 * Sebastes
 * Short-tailed Albatross
 * Sooty albatross
 * Southern Royal Albatross
 * Stitchbird
 * Stomach oil
 * Tabua
 * Thagomizer
 * Tomtit
 * Tristan Albatross
 * Tuamotu Sandpiper
 * Vini
 * Wedge-tailed Jery
 * Western Gull
 * Westland Petrel
 * Whiskered Auklet
 * White Tern
 * Wrentit
 * Xantus's Murrelet

Family drive
C class needing expansion or cleanup Families
 * 1)  Cracidae
 * 2)  Grebe
 * 3)  Auk
 * 4)  Bulbul
 * 1)  Screamer
 * 2)  Megapode
 * 3)  Phasianidae
 * 4)  Guineafowl
 * 5)  New World quail
 * 6)  Swift
 * 7)  Old World vulture
 * 8)  Mesite
 * 9)  Frogmouth
 * 10)  Nightjar
 * 11)  Owlet-nightjar
 * 12)  Treeswift
 * 13)  Bustard
 * 14)  Trumpeter (bird)
 * 15)  Sarothruridae
 * 16)  Heliornithidae
 * 17)  Sandpiper
 * 18)  Painted-snipe
 * 19)  Egyptian plover
 * 20)  Jacana
 * 21)  Seedsnipe
 * 22)  Plains-wanderer
 * 23)  Buttonquail
 * 24)  Skimmer
 * 25)  Skimmer
 * 26)  Skua
 * 27)  Glareolidae
 * 28)  Courser
 * 29)  Pratincole
 * 30)  Crab-plover
 * 31)  Stone-curlew
 * 32)  Sheathbill
 * 33)  Magellanic plover
 * 34)  Recurvirostridae
 * 35)  Oystercatcher
 * 36)  Charadriidae
 * 37)  Sunbittern
 * 38)  Tropicbird
 * 39)  Stork
 * 40)  Threskiornithidae
 * 41)  Ibis
 * 42)  Spoonbill
 * 43)  Barn-owl
 * 44)  True owl
 * 45)  Mousebird
 * 46)  Tody
 * 47)  Motmot
 * 48)  Ground roller
 * 49)  Wood hoopoe
 * 50)  Cuckoo-roller
 * 51)  Jacamar
 * 52)  Lybiidae
 * 53)  Megalaimidae
 * 54)  Capitonidae
 * 55)  Honeyguide
 * 56)  Broadbill*
 * 57)  Sapayoa
 * 58)  Tityridae
 * 59)  Ovenbird (family)
 * 60)  Formicariidae
 * 61)  Antpitta
 * 62)  Gnateater
 * 63)  Cotinga
 * 64)  Manakin
 * 65)  Crescentchest
 * 66)  Scrubbird
 * 67)  Lark
 * 68)  Motacillidae
 * 69)  Wagtail
 * 70)  Cuckooshrike
 * 71)  Rail-babbler
 * 72)  Hyliota
 * 73)  Iora
 * 74)  Silky-flycatcher
 * 75)  Palmchat
 * 76)  Black-capped donacobius
 * 77)  Mimid
 * 78)  Accentor
 * 79)  Thrush (bird)
 * 80)  Cisticolidae
 * 81)  Sylviidae
 * 82)  Stenostiridae
 * 83)  Macrosphenidae
 * 84)  Cettiidae
 * 85)  Phylloscopidae
 * 86)  Locustellidae
 * 87)  Malagasy warbler
 * 88)  Pnoepyga
 * 89)  Gnatcatcher
 * 90)  Old World flycatcher
 * 91)  [[Wattle-eye]
 * 92)  Australasian robin
 * 93)  [Pachycephalidae]]
 * 94)  Picathartes
 * 95)  Rockjumper
 * 96)  Old World babbler*
 * 97)  Leiothrichidae
 * 98)  Pellorneidae
 * 99)  Bearded reedling
 * 100)  Nicator
 * 101)  Australo-Papuan babbler
 * 102)  Orthonychidae
 * 103)  Maluridae
 * 104)  Australasian treecreeper
 * 105)  Wallcreeper
 * 106)  Treecreeper
 * 107)  Penduline tit
 * 108)  Flowerpecker
 * 109)  Bristlebird
 * 110)  Acanthizidae
 * 111)  White-eye
 * 112)  Sugarbird
 * 113)  Old World oriole
 * 114)  Helmetshrike
 * 115)  Drongo
 * 116)  Callaeidae
 * 117)  Bornean bristlehead
 * 118)  Satinbird
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