Talk:Crimson Rosella
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[edit] Taxobox Photo
I do not wish to engage in any dispute about the relative virtues of the photos in this article as photos. If LiquidGhoul wishes to consider his photo superior to mine then all power to him. However, the problems I have with his photo as an illustration for this article are, firstly, that the green colouration in the bird's plumage show that it has not completed it's progression from juvenile to adult plumage and, secondly, that labeling the image as a female may be inaccurate (while no expert, I know of no obvious sign that distinguishes male vs female rosellas). The photo in the taxobox is not typical of an adult of the species, which I think is a mistake in a reference work. I suspect the author of the caption may have confused age-based plumage differences with sex-based differences, resulting in a misleading caption - again not a great idea in a reference work. Mike Funnell 09:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- If you have a problem with the taxobox image containing a juvenile bird, state it is juvenile in the caption. The difference is only a small mottling of green, and that can be stated in the article. If a photo comes up which is cropped to just show the bird, the colours are well illustrated, it is in focus, and it is adult, then it can become the taxobox image, but at the moment, I don't like having a photo where the main subject is a feeder in the taxobox image. --liquidGhoul 12:25, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- I changed the caption to include 'juvenile', and removed 'female' as it is pretty redundant. --liquidGhoul 12:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Adelaide Rosella.
You'll have to excuse my ignorance, here, but the piece is, well, wrong!
Somewhere (!) I have read that an original should be archived here before it is substantially edited, so what is below is the original...
Adelaide Rosella
The final race, P. elegans adelaidae of Adelaide and the surrounding area, was also thought to be a separate species, but is presently believed to have originated through interbreeding of the Crimson and Yellow Rosellas. Both of these still interbreed with the Adelaide Rosella where its range crosses theirs, and it exhibits variation in its plumage from dark orange-red in the south of its distribution to a pale orange-yellow in the north. Variants that are very close to the Yellow race are designated subadelaidae.
Although the ranges of the Crimson and Yellow forms overlap along the entirety of the Murray River, in this area they seem to prefer different habitats and do not interbreed.Latrodectus 14:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
