User talk:Caitnew99/sandbox

Nesting behaviour in Bowerbirds

First I plan to talk about what Bowerbirds are, and where they are found.

Next, I will talk about how their nesting behaviours are unique, and how they differ from many other birds nests.

I will discuss how they go to extremes to protect their own nest and destroy nests around them. Not only are they very guarded about their nests, they also decorate their nests using flowers, feathers and stones to make their nest appear nice.

I have found a few scholarly articles on google scholar, and some using pubmed.

Peer Review
Hi! For this weeks peer review assignment, I reviewed your article on nesting behaviour in bowerbirds. I chose to review the copy that contains images, but is not found within your sandbox. First of all, I think your topic is very interesting. However, it is difficult to distinguish between your lead section and the rest of the ideas you are discussing which will not be included in the lead, due to the lack of headings. Also, within the first paragraph, you discussed facts about the actual birds, as opposed to the nesting behaviour, which may be misleading as a lead section, and distract from the intent of the article. Instead, you could provide a wiki link to the pre-existing article on bowerbirds and eliminate the need to explain the species. In the beginning o f the second paragraph, you say that the purpose of decorating the nests are to attract females, and then later in that same paragraph, you state that the purpose is to distract the females when mating. You could possibly state that there are multiple purposes for this behaviour or state a second purpose, to eliminate the confusion. The rest of the content presented in the article seems to be very neutral and unbiased, but every fact is not cited, for example, "The bowerbirds nesting behaviour is what makes them interesting creatures". I noticed that you have a citation at the end of each paragraph, but I think that each claim has to be individually referenced to be more clear. Also, the third source in your article doesn't appear to be a scholarly, peer-reviewed, notable source and there is an issue with the format of your first source which you may consider fixing. You may also consider adding more information centered around the actual behaviour associated with nesting in bowerbirds, perhaps defence, or any displays that may come along with the elaborate nests, as opposed to just the mechanism of construction of the nests themselves. Finally, I think the addition of images to your article really draw attention to the article and help to really clarify the information being presented in your article, and you could possibly add more images demonstrating the other two types of nests as well. Overall, I think your topic is very neat and I hope my suggestions are helpful. :)

Harandell (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2018 (UTC)