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Hi Michael - nice work! You might want to look in on (and sign up for!) Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds.
A few odds'n'ends arising from your edits: (1) The WikiProject Birds has settled on the Handbook of the Birds of the World for global consistency in names (notably not using hyphens followed by capitals, e.g. American Golden Plover, Western Scrub Jay). (2) When making substantive changes on classification, please add references (I've done this for your Thalasseus tern and Cory's Shearwater changes, but don't have the relevant info for Willet and the tattlers) (note also that the AOU are not a global authority and only a secondary source; their usage should be compared with other national and regional bodies and the original research papers); also when making such changes, please check the author citation is also corrected as relevant (e.g. Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 becomes Thalasseus sandvicensis (Latham, 1787) with the author in brackets as it is no longer the original combination). (3) On linguistic style, please note from the Manual of Style, that changing from one national form of English to another is not to be done without good reason; the style used by the first major editor should be retained unless the page is relevant to a particular region. Thus for Grey-tailed Tattler (a primarily Australian species in terms of English-speaking regions), Australian English should be retained (so I've reverted your changes there); for Wandering Tattler, US, Canadian and Australian English are all equally valid, so it should be as used by the first major editor (and thus again, Australian English); for Willet, the overwhelming majority of the range is in the US, so your change to US spelling is reasonable here (tho' it is possible that Canadians might object!). Finally (4) the scrub jay page is intended to be about the whole genus Aphelocoma (not just the ones with 'Scrub Jay' in their English names), so I've restored the two species you'd removed. Hope this helps! - MPF 17:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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