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Requesting the main picture for this article gets updated
I am still learning how to edit and will try and update the main picture in a bit. Just wanted to let the team know about the issue.
VarietyCichlid (
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15:51, 10 June 2019 (UTC)reply
Discussion
Requesting picture of an injury-feigning display
I am totally a fan of dividing a page into sections, and the article needs that. Also, with the killdeers diet; is it purely insects, or arthropods, or invertebrates in general?
Cynops14:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Since they are short-billed and hunt in dry habitats by sight, you would assume that insects formed the bulk of their diet, but Shorebirds gives no food info.
jimfbleak15:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)reply
Would an ornithologist happen to know whether these birds return to their original nesting grounds after migration? I have seen a 'family' of killdeer return to a relatively small plot of land for generations, and wonder if this is truly indicative of the species, or if I am simply seeing completely different, unrelated families, and it is all coincidental. —Preceding
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68.50.72.8 (
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11:15, 6 May 2009 (UTC)reply
the incubation period is about 22-28 days
The nesting section was copied and pasted from the website it cited. I'm working on rephrasing, expanding, and adding more references to the section. It may take several edits.
Altamel (
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00:23, 2 March 2011 (UTC)reply
In my experience, no. Get too close and they'll squawk at you. Get too too close and they'll run and do their distraction routine. NTox ·
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Has any study been done? In my work experience they routinely lay their eggs alongside railroad tracks in South Eastern Louisiana in a brilliant display of camoflauge — Preceding
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70.183.218.37 (
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23:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)reply
"Both sexes (although the former more often than the latter) advertise in flight with loud "killdeer" calls." Needs a rewrite as there aren't any formers and latters.
I'd suggest adding a 'further' link to
Antipredator adaptation at the head of the 'Responses to predators' section, and link it in the lead. That might also be a better name for the section, actually.
I'll link anti-predator adaptation in the lead, and then have the further link in the body be "distraction display", as this more accurately describes what the killdeer does.
RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集22:29, 27 September 2018 (UTC)reply
OK, thanks.
Suggest wikilink (lead and body)
Foraging,
Predator (or Predation),
Distraction display. This last could be a 'further' link if you wanted as it's a major feature.
"The day after the precocial (starting to walk in the first few days of its life) young hatch,..." Suggest "The young are
precocial, starting to walk .... The day after hatching, they are led ..."
In the image caption, why does the reader need to know this chick is in New Jersey, that female is in Pennsylvania? Unless there's special ecology there, it seems extraneous.
Because the United States is a big place, and so ecology varies widely across the country. Thus, I feel that it is appropriate to note the state, just like the country is noted in the picture showing the subspecies C. v. ternominatus.
RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集20:12, 28 September 2018 (UTC)reply
I think you're overdoing the big place thing, but hey.
I will note in passing that most of the refs are primary, though it seems that many of these are being used for more general (secondary) facts in their introductory sections. You might want to introduce some more good-quality secondary sources such as review articles or textbooks (e.g. Stanley Cramp, The Birds of the Western Palearctic, volume 3, RSPB/OUP, 1983, pages 143-146, for instance), especially if you're thinking of going on to FAC.
I see the matter of spelling was brought up in the FAR but not addressed properly. Better late than never. The article
used to be written in American English, so
WP:RETAIN is applicable. The subject also is predominantly associated with the US rather than any other English-speaking country. So why would it be in British English? Frustrating that we have these quality control processes which then aren't used properly. --
MarchOrDie (
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06:33, 3 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Nest temperature
Under Breeding, the 2-6 degree C nest cooling factor is converted to F with +32 included; it should not be. The F range should be 3.6-10.8 (or rounded).
Brian wessels (
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11:14, 3 April 2019 (UTC). Someone used an absolute temperature conversion not differential temperature. Its best rounded to 4 to 11F.reply
Congratulations to all the editors who helped this article get to featured status. I personally loved killdeers as a child and caught and relased a few little ones (adorable) and then gave them back to their mom. Great article. Best Regards,
Barbara ✐✉21:07, 3 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Accurate Description?
The article says, "Its upperparts are mostly brown with rufous fringes", but how accurate is that really? I think a good amount of Killdeer lack the rufous edging and instead have plain brown feathers. It seems that southern individuals of the Killdeer are more likely to have rufous coverts, whereas Northern individuals tend to have plainer brown feathers. Is that something that should be mentioned?
Aythya affinis (
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19:28, 13 October 2021 (UTC)reply