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The outreach department of the Birds WikiProject is a centralized work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The major program currently underway is a monthly project newsletter; further ideas are always welcome, of course!

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The Birds WikiProject Newsletter
Issue IV (June 2008)

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. It's been a good month for article improvement, with six new GA articles, and one new FA article. And we managed to save the featured status of List of birds in Canada and the United States, which had been threatened with delisting. There's still plenty to do on all fronts, of course...
Articles of note

New featured articles and lists:

  1. Cattle Egret (May 8)

New good articles:

  1. Pamela C. Rasmussen (May 8)
  2. White-winged Fairy-wren (May 17)
  3. European Robin (May 19)
  4. Common Treecreeper (May 24)
  5. Puerto Rican Amazon (May 26)
  6. Flammulated Flycatcher (May 30)


Welcome to our newest members


Bird article statistics
Bird
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 11 16 17 5 51
Good article GA 6 15 6 27
B 17 52 81 79 2 231
Start 19 156 518 1568 149 2410
Stub 6 53 517 2820 6202 9598
List 19 9 9 63 100
Assessed 44 297 1156 4499 6421 12417
Unassessed 1 1
Total 44 297 1156 4499 6422 12418
Collaboration efforts
  • We improved our April collaboration (Cattle Egret) all the way to FA status! Help us to do the same with this month's project collaboration. The White Wagtail is a very variable species (or is it several species, as some authorities insist?) found throughout much of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, and in small numbers in westernmost Alaska.
  • Be sure to vote for July's collaboration, which will be chosen on 21 June. We could use a few new nominations...
Domestic pigeons task force

We have our first official task force, covering articles related to domestic pigeons; new project member OnorioCatenacci (talk · contribs) started the group in May. If you're interested in helping with that suite of articles, drop by the new task force page at WP:PIGEONS.
Project news
  • The ongoing drive to improve our bird family articles continues; there are still at least 36 bird family articles currently rated as stubs. If you'd like to help improve one or more, the list of those needing work is here.
  • A change in Wikipedia's taxobox setup has meant the removal of the IUCN status scale image from all articles. To re-display the scale, add "| status_system = iucn3.1" to the taxobox parameters in any article for which it is appropriate.

Got a suggestion? A correction? Something you'd like to see included in a future issue? Drop a note at the Tip Line with your ideas!

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[edit] Welcoming new members

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Hi, and welcome to the Birds WikiProject! As you've probably guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of bird-related topics.

A few features that you may find helpful:

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask any experienced member of the project; we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!