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Category:Birds of (African countries)

Isee back in 2016 someone deleted Categories: Birds of...(African countries)but just for the African countries, nowhere else. Long term project is to try to restore them in some fashion....Pvmoutside (talk) 11:06, 17 July 2023

Creating distribution maps from IUCN Red List data

Hello, I have just recently joined this WikiProject as I am working on updating and improving various bird articles, especially of Australian broad-tailed parrots and their close relatives.

I've noticed quite a few species don't have distribution maps. I have found a reliable source (The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) and have downloaded the Range Data - Polygons (SHP) file from the first species I would like to create a map for.

Would anyone be able to show me how to convert this file into a distribution map that fits Wikipedia's standards of copyright-free and uniform content?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Lord.of.the.Proterozoic Lord.of.the.Proterozoic (talk) 06:12, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Guatemalan flicker and northern plain xenops

This summer IOC split the Guatemalan flicker from northern flicker. Currently Guatemalan flicker is a redirect to the northern flicker article. Does the entire contents of northern flicker including talk and history need to be copied into Guatemalan to replace the redirect template, and then pruned to describe the new species? If so, how?(Of course northern needs some editing as well.) Or can I just write a new article to replace the template? A similar issue arises with northern plain xenops, split from what is now Amazonian plain xenops, except that there is no page for the northern. Craigthebirder (talk) 13:42, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

No, you can just start an article from scratch at Guatemalan flicker. FunkMonk (talk) 13:49, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Will do for both new species. Craigthebirder (talk) 15:09, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

But probably not until after this fall/winter Clements and BLI/HBW updates. So if anyone else wants to go first, have at it. Craigthebirder (talk) 16:23, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

It may be useful that Birds of the World currently has the Northern Flicker on free preview and has an extensive systematics section.  —  Jts1882 | talk  06:58, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

New genera per IOC

In August the IOC created (or restored) two genera within the tyrant flycatchers, family Tyrannidae: Acrochordupus and Tyranniscus. I'm in the process of expanding the articles for the five affected species. Can someone make templates and whatever else is needed so their taxoboxes recognize the new genera? I looked at the directions for making the genus template but am not comfortable trying to make them. Thank you. Craigthebirder (talk) 22:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Templates {{Taxonomy/Acrochordopus}} [editid (see below)] and {{Taxonomy/Tyranniscus}} created.  —  Jts1882 | talk  09:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you again. I should be able to do some more of them myself. Craigthebirder (talk) 10:16, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

It is fairly straight forward once you've done a few. If you add a taxon which doesn't have a taxonomy template, the edit preview of the taxobox has a "fix" link which takes you to a page with the template partially filled in. You only need to add the rank, parent and a reference. But if you are more comfortable getting someone else to create it, you can continue to ask here and should usually get a prompt response.  —  Jts1882 | talk  16:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

That should be Acrochordopus (IOC 14.2). Kweetal nl (talk) 09:09, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Moved to {{Taxonomy/Acrochordopus}}.  —  Jts1882 | talk  17:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Night herons

The night herons articles need some attention. Two of the Gorsachius species have recently been moved to monotypic genera, with appropriate changes to the species articles,but the genera articles have some inconsistenies. The move is mentioned in the Gorsachius genus article at the taxonomy section, but elsewhere there is discussion of the four night herons, their distribution, behaviour, etc. Other night heron articles (e.g. Nycticorax) might also need updating on the changing genera.  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:58, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

What are the changes to Nycticorax? FunkMonk (talk) 16:10, 27 September 2024 (UTC)