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[edit] Wood Walton Fen
Thank you for your note. Your query is not easy to answer as it is so general and I have no special knowledge of the Wood Walton Fen. :-)
It is a remnant of relatively natural fen in one of the larger fen embayments. That is, it is part of one of the lobes of fen which extended into the upland. I have never been there but like the nearby Holme Fen, it is wooded. This implies that it is drained and dried out. Holme fen contains the famous Holme Post which indicates just how far the peat has shrunk since the 1850s. However, the map from which I took the woodland information is dated 1974. There has been time for new management to have had its effect. Wood Walton Fen is next to Turf Fen, a name which implies that the natural state of the ecology there was acidic. On the other hand, this picture gives an impression of fen in the strict sense but tending toward fen carr. This impression is reinforced by the insect life. There do seem to be birds and trees as well. Among the latter appears to be a fairly mature conifer, though there is nothing in the photo to say that it is not horizontal. When all is taken together the fen seems to have been managed as a fen with very open woodland, not all of which is coniferous.
This site lists it as being owned by the National Trust but the Trust's handbook does not list it. It would appear therefore to be let entirely into the custody of RSNC, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation. That site describes the habitat thus: reed bed, fen carr, birch and alder woodland and fen pasture. There is a rich flora in mown or grazed fen, ditches and peat cuttings, notable moths, dragonflies, beetles and spiders, Chinese Water Deer. Facilities are: Two hides. Access is to the permitted path, otherwise by permission. It extends to 208 hectares.
Its soil and that of its immediate vicinity is not surprisingly, fen peat (Altcar 2) but it lies in an embayment within the larger one. To its west is the island of Jurassic clay on which Wood Walton castle stood. To the east is the much larger peninsula of Jurassic clay and chalky till, on which Ramsey Abbey was built.
In the Roman Scheme of things, this appears to have been part of the boundary of the Imperial Estate which was not precisely marked by the Car Dyke and similar devices but where the great width of the fen was deemed sufficient to prevent smuggling.
Regards, (RJP)
[edit] Steenbok
Hi. Just thought I'd say that I like your new distribution map. :) Mehmet Karatay 19:35, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- I found a few journal articles which might interest you. Here are abstracts: one, two, three. If you would like me to send them to you could you please e-mail me your address. They will be photocopies so I will have to post them.
- For this one I do not have access to the journal, but even the abstract has enough information to be useful. It mentions that Steenbok that live in the Namib dessert get most of their water needs through eating as they do not have much access to free water. It could be an extra citation for when you mention that fact in your article.
- If you don't have access to an academic library but find any other articles you think are interesting I can try to get them for you. Mehmet Karatay 21:06, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Butterfly Book
The most suitable book that I know for South Asia (less Himalayas & NE India), with a lot of common butterflies with Sri Lanka is :-
- Kunte, Krushnamegh. (2000) Butterflies of Peninsular India, [India-A Lifescape series] (i to xviii, pp254, Plates 1 to 32) Universities Press (India) Ltd, Hyderabad (reprint 2006). ISBN 81-7371-354-5.
AshLin 12:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, try out this list of bookshops in Colombo. You can phone them & ask. They may be able to get acopy before you reach. Also see this site on Sri Lankan butterflies. Here's a wikilink to compare. AshLin 15:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hi, thanks for your note. I'm in England too, Stockport, Cheshire. I've got a few things I'm trying to get on with but I don't seem to find much spare time these days and I'm interested in a lot of things! My big (and it is really, really big!) long term project is putting really comprehensive wikilinked lists of food plants in all Lepidoptera articles and lists of Lepidoptera in the plant articles (some of these obviously are requiring separate list articles). As preparation for this at the moment I'm putting together genus lists for all Lepidoptera families so we don't have loads of orphaned pages (I'm ploughing through Noctuidae at the moment).
If there is anything you think I may be able to help you with, give me a shout. Richard Barlow (talk) 23:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Taxon Authorities
Saw your request on Ashlin's talk page. Here is another [1] If there is no article on the authority or one you can't trace let me know.Notafly (talk) 16:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProjet Birds May 2008 Newsletter
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[edit] Copy-n-Paste Moves
Please do not make copy-n-paste moves as you did with Silver-spotted Skipper to Hesperia comma. Copy-n-paste moves shouldn't be done as they disassociate the edit history which causes GFDL compliance issues. You should move pages instead. I have fixed this one. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 13:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Distribution maps (Reference copy)
Is there a "standard" or easy-to-use program available for generating distribution maps?—GRM (talk) 20:39, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- I usually take a good hardcopy source or (for threatened species) the BirdLife datazone and pick a blank map from Commons and paint away. YMMV but given it's a pixel job I use Paint Shop Pro. If you're a Linux geek, you'll probably want to use The Gimp. I find Photoshop too cumbersome for fine pixel work. I have not yet grokked SVG art; if there is anything bettern than Inkscape (which is a hell to use for complex patterns) I'd be interested to know. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 21:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hello again GRM. What I find works really well once you get used to it is Inkscape. I used that for the Steenbok distribution map. It's free software and available for Linux, Mac and Windows. Despite what Dysmorodrepanis says above I find it's very easy to use and it produces svg graphics which is the preferred format for distribution maps. A lot of the blank maps in commons are in svg as it is so you simply import and colour away as already said. If the blank svg has been created well then you can also select an entire country by clicking on it (this includes any extra territorial islands etc. it may have) and change the colour of the entire country, for an example see this image. I hope this helps. Mehmet Karatay (talk) 22:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Birds June 2008 Newsletter
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[edit] Rename Holly Blue?
As this article has been created with an English Name so it is as per the present TOL guidelines. Since we do not have consensus on this issue of 'common vs scientific names', either way (its been hotly debated in our Project talk pages), I do not favour any changes of names either way - neither common to binomial nomenclature or vice versa. Hence I do not recommend changing it to the scientific name. That does not stop a person creating articles with a scientific name should he so desire to do so, as long as the organism does not have an existing page on WP. Cheers! AshLin (talk) 16:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
