User talk:Waterfaux

Welcome!
Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 21:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Recent addition to List of birds of Alberta
Hi Waterfaux, regarding your recent additions, I have reverted them as crowd-sourced sites are generally not considered a high-quality WP:RS for records of bird sightings, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds/Archive 75. This list is one of Featured lists, and so any additions need to be from high-quality sources.

The observations themselves are bit odd too. There are known native species that are similar, and these observations are likely someone mis-identifying them or being unfamiliar with North American birds (Occams razor). For instance, the coal tit - this is a black-capped chickadee. Similarly, the "Eurasian pygmy owl" is almost certainly a northern pygmy owl, the "hen harrier" is likely a northern harrier, and the "red-stained woodpecker" is probably a Lewis' woodpecker, all of which are already listed. This is a good example of why these sources aren't considered reliable.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or you can start a thread on WikiProject Birds! grungaloo (talk) 20:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

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