Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Todo

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• Lists of needed articles (books, journals, organisations, people, places, taxa, etc)
• Evolution of birds
• Check the country lists
• Add {{Infobox park}} to articles about nature reserves
• Most genus articles lack a genus authority. Most genera have an authority, no doubt some errors lurk.
• Merge GLAM/ARKive donated texts into articles about endangered species.
• Over 5,000 project articles are tagged "Needs image" (for list, check Category:Wikipedia requested images of birds).
• Assign project importance to all project articles currently tagged "Unknown" (for list, check Category:Unknown-importance bird articles).
• List of project articles tagged "Needing attention" (Category:Birds articles needing attention).
• List of project articles tagged "Needing expert attention" (Category:Birds articles needing expert attention).
• Update IUCN status references on all articles with broken links.
• Add synonyms to species' taxobox.
• Review entries on Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Comparison of IOC and Wiki binomial names (June 2012).

Species lists with redlinks

Taxa listed by the IOC that do not yet have wiki pages are listed here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Missing IOC names.

Bird families with stub articles

Bring following articles up to start class:

Standing list of articles with several images but little text

Here is a list of short articles which have had images added and could benefit being beefed up with text to balance the image content. Please help if you can. Also, all are potentially easy DYK noms (hint hint) :) Cheers, Casliber (talk ·contribs) 11:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

• White-throated gerygone

NCBioTeacher (talk) 10:11, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Standing list of articles with quality pictorial content

Here is a list of articles with either a Featured Picture, or a variety of pictures available, such as chicks, eggs, variant colour forms etc., which would be really done justice by a larger article.

• Adélie penguin
• African penguin
• American avocet
• Ara (genus)
• Australian white ibis
• Barred owl
• Bananaquit
• Black-chinned hummingbird
• Black-headed gull
• Blue-footed booby
• Blue jay
• Bourke's parrot
• Budgerigar
• Channel-billed toucan
• Chestnut-mandibled toucan
• Chinstrap penguin
• Double-crested cormorant
• Dunlin
• Eclectus parrot
• Eurasian oystercatcher
• Galah
• Gang-gang cockatoo
• Great frigatebird
• Grey parrot
• Greylag goose
• Gull
• Horned parakeet
• Humboldt penguin
• Killdeer
• King penguin
• Lesser yellowlegs
• Long-billed corella
• Lovebird
• Magellanic penguin
• Musk lorikeet
• Pacific koel
• Prothonotary warbler
• Red-crested pochard
• Red-footed booby
• Red-headed woodpecker
• Regent bowerbird
• Restless flycatcher
• Richard's pipit
• Ring-billed gull
• Rose-ringed parakeet
• Rosella
• Silver gull
• Snow goose
• South Island takahē
• Striated pardalote
• Sulphur-crested cockatoo
• Von der Decken's hornbill
• Vulture

Groups of articles heading towards featured topic (FT)

Further information: Wikipedia:Featured topic criteria

• Currawong 4 articles – Black currawong (FA), Grey currawong (FA), Pied currawong (FA), Currawong
• Kinglet Common firecrest (FA) Goldcrest (FA) Madeira firecrest (FA); 3 more species and the family to upgrade.
• Malurus genus: 13 articles – there are six FAs out of 12 species pages and one genus page
• New World vulture family: 9 articles – New World vulture (B), American black vulture (FA), King vulture (FA), Andean condor (FA), California condor(FA), Greater yellow-headed vulture (GA), Lesser yellow-headed vulture (GA), Turkey vulture (FA), and Cathartes (Start)
• Procellariiformes order: 5 articles – Albatross (FA), Procellariidae (FA), Storm-petrel (Start), Procellariiformes (GA), and Diving-petrel (start)

Individual war pigeon stubs

• There are many heroic war pigeon stubs in need of expansion to be found on the list in the article Dickin Medal