Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tawny Owl


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 19:07, 22 June 2008.

Tawny Owl
I'm nominating this article for featured article because it's passed GA, so onwards and hopefully upwards. Contributions 187/455 edits jimfbleak (talk) 06:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments (must be bird morning...)
 * Can we put Wordsworth and Coleridge last name first in the references?
 * Otherwise sources look good. Links all checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * oops, silly missing that, done now jimfbleak (talk) 15:13, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, no problem. That's why it is good to have others look at articles, fresh eyes help a bunch. All done! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:34, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support Issues addressed; good work! Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  02:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment Per MOS:NUM, use commas as thousands separators in large numbers. Gary King ( talk ) 15:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * reply I didn't realise, that done now, also picked up a full stop that should have been a comma as a bonus. Thanks jimfbleak (talk) 15:39, 16 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support (moral or otherwise) Comments ok, let's get started...
 * but in more urban areas its diet includes a higher proportion of birds. - an 'although' would be softer and more appropriate as not a huge contrast.

should the indefinite article be removed?



"The nominate race has two colour morphs which differ in their upperpart plumage, one rufous brown and the other greyish brown, although intermediate forms are seen. The underparts (of both forms) are whitish and streaked with brown." - bracketed bit optional. Or have a play with it some other way.
 * The Tawny Owl has a direct flight... erm, what's a direct flight? I guess it means flying in a straight line. Is there another way of saying this? (not a deal-breaker)


 * The owl's actual visual acuity is only slightly higher than that of man, --> greater?

Europe does not strike me as humid compared with, say, the Amazon really.


 * The typical lifespan is five years,[3] but an age of over eighteen years has been recorded for a wild Tawny Owl, and of over 27 years for a captive bird. - aha, the old numbers-as-letters conundrum. I'd have 'em all as digits I think.

Nearly there. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:47, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * All done, thanks particularly for the plumage suggestion. I've amended the table caption to explain the, not sure if this is the best way jimfbleak (talk) 19:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Support with comments (nothing deal breaking). Disclaimer, WP:BIRD vote, but I've had nothing to do with this article.
 * The Tawny Owl has a distribution stretching across temperate Eurasia from Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula eastwards to Korea, - this should read has a discontinuous or disjunct distribution stretching... as the sentence reads like there is continuous band of them from sea to shining sea.
 * Behaviour most of the information in behaviour can go into breeding - nest defence and lifelong breeding pairs.
 * Good stuff though. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  01:57, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, followed suggestions, I had wondered about merging the behaviour bit jimfbleak (talk) 06:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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