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image stuff
Jimfbleak, I replaced the generic {{PD}} tag at Image:Redwingblackbird1.jpg with a {{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}, interpreting your summary, "public domain USFWA," as meaning exactly that. If this is right, then no need to respond (though a more precise source for the image would be great if you have the info on hand). If not, then please fix the tag or let me know. Thanks. Chick Bowen 01:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Costa Rica
I felt the same way you did about the people and scenery in CR. I was there for a few days and added only 4 species to my life list (all found in North America too), as I recall, but as I added Total Solar Eclipse to my astronomical list, the trip was definitely worth it.
It's nice to know I didn't put any misinformation in Clay-colored Robin.
I'm glad you liked mixed-species feeding flock. I added one of your comments. I've barely even seen these—I've been unlucky in my small amount of winter birding in the eastern U.S. (or maybe I just thought "This is a good spot"), and the flocks don't seem to happen much in New Mexico. If you feel like it and have the time, I think that page could use a description of how close the birds are, what it's like when they show up, etc.
The Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds seems to say that drongos follow mixed-species flocks rather than leading them. See the bottom of this page and the top of the next. However, if you saw them obviously leading the flocks, I'm not going to argue.
Nice hummingbird pictures, and I see I don't have to ask whether you got a quetzal.
—JerryFriedman 21:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Mixed flocks
Thanks for you addition—not just for improving the article, but also it was very interesting for me to read.
As you can see, I did some rewriting of the whole article. I think your additions fit more smoothly now, and as usual I found several places to improve my writing after not looking at it for a while.
Someday I'll go back to Costa Rica… JerryFriedman 23:51, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Elaboration
If I followed the evolutionary tree article history, you made a comment about discredited views regarding the progression of evolution. I would like to read more about these views, if you know of a link I could follow. Xaxafrad 04:45, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Hi Jim, although the file is named as an Alexandrine Parakeet, it is almost surely a Rose-ringed Parakeet. The couple of other species found in the locality where the photographer has taken the picture are quite different. Cheers Shyamal 04:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Image Tagging
Greetings. From the description and use of Image:Tropmocktobago.JPG, it appears you intended this media to be freely available. I took the liberty of applying a {{GFDL-presumed}} tag. Could you confirm this at by replacing my edit with {{GFDL-self}}? Regards, Dethomas 02:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- And how about Image:Rvchachalaca102.JPG? Stan 04:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Southern lapwing
Hi. I edited Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) and you reverted my changes. Perhaps my English is poor, but that bird isn't from jungle. It dwells in grassland (prairies?), lake and river shores. Their distribution area includes Argentina, Central and South Chile, Brazil (from Amazon river to south), Bolivia and Peru. In all this zones, except some parts of Brazil, Southern lapwing live in open areas. I hope that you understand my explanation and forgive my terrific writing. Bye Lin linao 07:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sorry. Maybe "other than" means "excepto". :)
Speedying AfD'd articles
Hi Jim. You speedied Shower night as junk, which I'm all for. But there was an open AfD on the article. I will close the AfD, but in future, please take note of this before speedily deleting articles. Keep up the good work, Proto||type 13:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Help!
Hi, I know you are a fellow bird enthusiast. I'm having difficulty with the "Nicobar Pigeon" jpg on Pigeon. It won't seem to come up no matter how many times I try to configure it! I don't know how it has disappeared! Could you please try to edit Pigeon so the picture will come back? Frances76 10:02, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes but if you go to the Nicobar pigeon page, it is still there. I looked up the picture (Nicobar.pigeon.750pix.jpg) and it is copyrightless. I don't understand why this is happening. Frances76 21:56, 18 March 2006 (UTC) 21:55, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Blocking
Hi there. I saw that you blocked an anonymous editor with a good history of contributions because of just one incident without warning him. The Blocking policy indicates that you should warn the user about his contributions (unless the vandalism is truly severe) before resorting to blocks, and if you need to block, to do it in short periods of time (usually 24 hours) for anonymous editors, as they can be editing from a shared IP pool. As a result, I've unblocked the user for the time being, but if he continues vandalizing, feel free to block again. Titoxd 08:09, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hello Jim. You mentioned you had experienced some problems twice yesterday with AOL blocks, can you please let me know what those two IP addresses were so I can look into this further? I apologise in advance for any inconvenience. Best regards, Hall Monitor 17:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- The reason I asked was I did not recall blocking two AOL IP addresses that day. Perhaps you could check your block logs to see which ones you unblocked. It would be appreciated. As for the collateral damage issue, the Wikimedia developers need to institute something which allows registered users to edit while a vandal is causing problems, agreed? Best regards, Hall Monitor 17:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Upon further review, it appears that someone was traversing AOL's 195.93.21.0/24 network a few days ago, maliciously vandalising and inserting racist remarks into many articles. This is all the more reason to allow whitelisting and promote user registration over networks that employ large proxies, especially providers that use insane methods of round-robin address assignment like AOL. Hall Monitor 18:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Eureka, I've found it. If you have not already, please visit WP:BPP, a proposal for blocking policy reform. Best regards, Hall Monitor 18:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Missing Dove Image
Please see my User talk:Arpingstone - Adrian Pingstone 11:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Jim! Frances76 06:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
I won't be editing for a few days, so messages may not receive a quick reply
Ducks
Hi Jimfbleak, just wondering why you removed my addition to the Duck gallery? Even if you have a really good reason, it would have been nice of you to have left a message in the talk page under the "Gallery" heading I'd started. trolleymusic 20:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough given the reasons left on my talk page - I'm quite new to this and was just a bit startled when it disappeared with no reason. I've removed it from the article, and thanks for the reply :)
Scops owls
Hi Jim, I have moved the Scops owl pages for India (and this is based on Grimmett-Inskipps and Rasmussen/Anderton) as follows
Let me know if you need more info from the source. It looks like the Global Own Project site has caused some confusion on the naming by following some older works. Shyamal 04:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Female Greater Honeyguides
Hi again, Jim. In working on Greater Honeyguide, I found that Short and Horne's book says the female has a yellow forewing patch like the male, while our article said she doesn't. Could you check your source (presumably Birds of the Gambia)? If it disagrees with Short and Horne, we may have to give references to both sides of the disagreement (or gloss over it).
I now love Amazon book search. Short and Horne are probably annoyed, though. —JerryFriedman 04:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks, another problem solved. —JerryFriedman 14:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
page deleted? why?
I would like to know why the page CastPodder was deleted. Its a valid program used in podcasting and my programs name is called CastPodder. I made the references to reflect that. Its all releated to podcasting which is discussed here. --Scott Grayban 09:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)