Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Trocaz Pigeon/archive1

Resolved issues from Sasata Sasata (talk) 15:52, 23 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

  • lead: link habitat loss; introduced, laurel
  • shouldn't being a paragraph (or section) with "This"
  • link plumage, buff, iridescence, nape
  • "…and a relatively much smaller tail." "relatively" seems redundant, as the comparison is explicit
  • "It often has dark wing markings, and it has a lighter flight.
  • link pigeon family to Columbidae
  • "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?
  • "This is a monotypic taxon" perhaps reword to avoid the consecutive links
  • "very occasionally" is there a one-word adjective for this? infrequently? rarely?
  • "Competition for food with rats can be locally significant." But globally insignificant? Not quite sure what this is trying to say.
  • link extirpated, cull
  • "The Parque Natural da Madeira national park has a management plan for the species" the bird or the rat?
  • What's a bird scarer?
  • spell out EU
  • 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
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
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
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
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