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Requested move at Talk:Pipipi#Requested move 15 January 2026

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pipipi#Requested move 15 January 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPathtalk 05:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ground-nesting birds

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Is there a page for ground-nesting birds somewhere? I wanted to link to it in Eider. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:04, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There is Bird nest#Scrape. SchreiberBike | ⌨  21:06, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply] Thanks. I made a redirect to that section. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:26, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion criteria for List of organisms of Place

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There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Inclusion criteria for List of organisms of Place about what should be included in such lists. Please contribute there. Thank you. SchreiberBike | ⌨  03:41, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Flight feather at FAR

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I have nominated Flight feather for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 00:27, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Preferred source for binomial name?

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Hi folks, I wanted to check to see whether there is a preferred authority on which binomial name should be the primary one reported in bird articles. Came across some outdated genera on White-lined, Kimberly, and Streak-breasted honeyeater.

IOC Bird List (version 15.1) gives genus as Territornis, and IUCN/BirdLife International gives genus as Microptilotis. Is IOC generally regarded as the preferred authority?

Either way, genus is given as Meliphaga in the three articles listed above, so I'd like to update. DuckWrangler97 (talk) 17:26, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

IOC is still the generally preferred guideline source for article names and taxoboxes, although a shift to Avilist seems likely in the near future. In discussions there is general consensus that this should happen, but concern that there are a few decisions in the first version that will be reversed in the 2026 version, and that we should wait before changing the guidelines. On the correct genus to use, the articles follow Avilist and Clements/eBird in using Meliphaga. There is a note in Birds of the World saying The Kimberley Honeyeater has also been placed in the genus Territornis (e.g., 6), but is here moved back into an expanded Meliphaga owing to relatively short branch lengths among clades purported to represent separate genera, as well as overall morphological similarity among the groups (7, 8).. I'd be inclined to leave them at Meliphaga and see what they do in Avilist-2026.  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:55, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] Excellent, sounds good to me. Thank you for the guidance! DuckWrangler97 (talk) 17:57, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] I suppose that for "Avibase" you mean "AviList"? Kweetal nl (talk) 07:06, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] Yes, I make the mistake quite often (thinking list but writing base). I did get two out of three mentions right.  —  Jts1882 | talk  07:49, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

identity

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File:Zappey's Flycatcher, Cyanoptila cumatilis,Xiaolongmen National Forest Park, Beijing, China.jpg identified by the photographer as Zappey's Flycatcher, but I suspect it might be its close relative Blue-and-white Flycatcher going on the tone and intensity of the blue; Zappey's should be a slightly greener blue? Location is pretty much on the boundary between the two species. Anyone any better idea, please? - MPF (talk) 17:49, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your suspicion. The pictured individual has a discrete black throat patch, which should only be present on blue-and-white flycatcher. DuckWrangler97 (talk) 18:50, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] @DuckWrangler97 Thanks! - MPF (talk) 20:42, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User page catalogued on WikiProject:Birds ?

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Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on adding photos to bird pages to cut down on the number of outstanding requests in Category:Wikipedia requested images of birds. Today I noticed a User page is classed in that cateogry.

This userpage: User talk:Hiroizmeh/Archaehierax is categorized within WikiProject birds. Is this a mistake? I don't want to edit someone else's user page, so wanted to check in here.

Thanks! DuckWrangler97 (talk) 18:46, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@DuckWrangler97 - looks like a draft the user was working on; they haven't edited on wikipedia anywhere for almost 4 years now though, so I'd call it abandoned. If there's anything in it that's cited and worth adding to the Archaehierax page, that could be done; otherwise leave it to whatever the fate of incomplete drafts is. But any categories it is in could perhaps be removed? - MPF (talk) 20:48, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply] Thanks! I think, given the state of abandonment, I will at least remove the "photo needed" tags so that they aren't clogging the Category. DuckWrangler97 (talk) 20:57, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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