Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Trocaz Pigeon/archive1

Resolved issues from Sasata Sasata (talk) 15:52, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * lead: link habitat loss; introduced, laurel
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * shouldn't being a paragraph (or section) with "This"
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * link plumage, buff, iridescence, nape
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "…and a relatively much smaller tail." "relatively" seems redundant, as the comparison is explicit
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "It often has dark wing markings, and it has a lighter flight.
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * link pigeon family to Columbidae
 * Done  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "One of several subgroups within Columba consists of the widespread Eurasian Common Wood Pigeon, C. palumbus, Bolle's Pigeon, C. bollii, the Trocaz Pigeon, and the African Afep Pigeon, C. unicincta." I think the layout of this sentence is slightly confusing, one might miss that the binomial follows the common name. Why not put them in parenthesis, or just pipe links from the common name?
 * removed binomials  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "This is a monotypic taxon" perhaps reword to avoid the consecutive links
 * changed taxon to species  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * link subspecies, primary & secondary forest, heath (heath (habitat) or heath forest?), display,
 * Done except "heath", which I can't see other than in the already-linked "tree heath" <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "very occasionally" is there a one-word adjective for this? infrequently? rarely?
 * rarely <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "Competition for food with rats can be locally significant." But globally insignificant? Not quite sure what this is trying to say.
 * Competition for food with rats can be significant in parts of the island <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * link extirpated, cull
 * Done <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * "The Parque Natural da Madeira national park has a management plan for the species" the bird or the rat?
 * explicitly pigeon now <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * What's a bird scarer?
 * linked <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * spell out EU
 * Done and linked <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Here's some unused sources that I found in a lit review:


 * Title: The influence of fruit abundance on the use of forest and cultivated field habitats by the endemic Madeira laurel pigeon Columba trocaz: Implications for conservation
 * Author(s): Oliveira, P; Menezes, D; Jones, M, et al.
 * Source: BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION  Volume: 130   Issue: 4   Pages: 538-548   Published: JUL 2006
 * I'd seen this, now added half a sentencce
 * Title: Naming segregates from the Columba-Streptopelia pigeons following DNA studies on phylogeny
 * Author(s): Cheke, Anthony S.
 * Source: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club  Volume: 125   Issue: 4   Pages: 293-295   Published: DEC 2005
 * text I didn't use this since it's not relevant to core Columba sp like the wood pigeons <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Title: White-headed duck, great skua, Madeira laurel pigeon.
 * Author(s): Parkin, David
 * Source: BWP Update  Volume: 3   Issue: 2   Pages: 79-117   Published: August 2001
 * I don't have access, but I couldn't find any refs to it, so presumably not earth-shakingly important <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Title: Population numbers, habitat preferences and the impact of the long-toed pigeon, Columba trocaz, on agriculture
 * Author(s): Oliveira, Paulo; Jones, Martin
 * Source: Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal  Volume: 0   Issue: SUPPL. 4   Pages: 531-542   Published: 1995
 * as far as I can ascertain, there is nothing in this not developed in later papers, just a baseline really <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Title: A survey of the distribution, density and habitat preference of the long-toed pigeon Columba trocaz in Madeira.
 * Author(s): Jones, M.J.
 * Source: ICBP Study Report  Pages: 1-69   Published: 1988
 * Content appears to be summarised in the birdlife page and the Action plan
 * Title: AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITAT FEEDING HABITATS DENSITY BREEDING AND NEED OF PROTECTION OF THE LONG-TOED WOOD PIGEON COLUMBA-TROCAZ
 * Author(s): ZINO F; ZINO P A
 * Source: Bocagiana (Funchal)  Issue: 97   Pages: 1-15   Published: 1986
 * Nothing that's not elsewhere, particularly the action plan <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  09:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Title: 1ST OBSERVATION OF BOLLS PIGEON COLUMBA-TROCAZ-BOLLII NEW-RECORD ON HIERRO CANARY ISLES
 * Author(s): MARTIN A
 * Source: Alauda  Volume: 53   Issue: 2   Pages: 137-140   Published: 1985
 * Not actually about this species, Bolle's was once thought to be a ssp of trocaz <b style="font-family:chiller; color:red;"> Jimfbleak - </b> talk to me?  06:51, 18 October 2010 (UTC)