Talk:Indigo bunting/GA1

GA Review

I'll read through this in the next couple of days, and post comments, meanwhile, i'll see if I can fix the Linnaeus reference jimfbleak (talk) 06:07, 26 July 2008 (UTC) OK, some comments

1. One very quick point, the "see also" is inappropriate, Painted Bunting is already linked in the article (and even if it wasn't I can't see any obvious rationale)  Done
2. General – overlinking, Florida, for example, is linked three times  Done
3. Lead – some mention of relationships, eg with the Lazuli Bunting? Done
4. I’d put northern South America in lead too  Done
5. using the stars to direct itself – navigate?  Done
6. It is considered a bird of Least Concern by the IUCN.- Fits poorly, just say it’s common somewhere
7. Taxonomy Passerina (author and date?) I'd also go family to genus, rather than genus to family in opening Done
8. Taxa –link?  Done
9. Mya - is a disamb page,  Done
10. sister of two sister groups, lose second “sister” (would a cladogram be helpful?)
11. Distribution and habitat Mountains? Lowland?
12. vagrancy? It’s certainly occurred in the UK, and IUCN redlist has others Done
13. The Indigo Bunting often migrates during the night... In captivity, since they number drift  Done
14. Description .4-.6 = 0.4–0.6  Done
15. bill colour? Done
16. adult males … the male - is number drift, also check elsewhere  Done
17. personally, I’d put the vocalisations in description
18. sweet-sweet chew-chew sweet-sweet... Each male has a single complex song, How is the described song complex, looks simple enough?
19. Behavior using the stars to direct itself. -Navigate? How does it do this?
20. Breeding .3 = 0.3  Done
21. Indigo Buntings are occasionally victims of brood parasites, - what happens to the bunting eggs/young – do they hatch/survive, or are they destroyed? Done
22. It does not drink frequently, generally obtaining sufficient water from its diet. What’s "it"?  Done
23. Diet The Indigo Bunting forages for food on the ground or in trees or shrubs equally likely?
24. In winter, it often feeds in flocks single-species or mixed, flock size?  Done
25. Conservation Why "conservation" rather than "status", when you don’t actually discuss conservation of this species?  Done
26. The Indigo Bunting is a bird of Least Concern according to the IUCN, with an estimated range of 5,900,000 km² (3,666,090 mi²) and a population of 28,000,000 individuals. Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for a population decline warranting an upgrade in conservation status. I’d put 5.9 million etc, the conversion suffers from delusions of accuracy, 3.7 million mi² will do  Done
27. (same bit) Global –why global, it only occurs in NAm? What’s the trend there?

It also occurs in Central and South America; I suppose that's why the IUCN uses the term global.

IUCN always says global, even for species endemic to one small island. It only breeds in NAm so better to lose global and just start Population trends...

1. (same bit) What are the population decline criteria Done
2. missing - average lifespan, predators, diseases, parasites

That'll do for a first read through, I'll check the refs (fixed one that was dodgy) and have another read through when you've had a chance to deal with these comments jimfbleak (talk) 14:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to give you a hard time, but no rush. The ADW ref has some predators. For diseases and internal parasites, there may not be anything, just check. Refs all work but a few comments

1. "Indigo Bunting". (All About Birds ref) Why italics for Indigo Bunting, just quote marks I think
2. Emlen ref, why html? I’d use the PDF link http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v084n04/p0463-p0489.pdf
3. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and The Birds of British Columbia What’s the point of links to these? No extract or abstract as far as I can see?

jimfbleak (talk) 14:14, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

I've had to fail this since no recent changes. If it's fixed in the future, it can go round again jimfbleak (talk) 10:59, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

• October update

• I checked the ref with the odd quote marks and removed italics. I presume Jude forgot it was already formatted. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

• I changed the ref to the pdf

• Removed links to google books