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Damned, in 4 years I have never had a talk page here ! So much for that. I'm kidding, thank's ;) Totodu74 (talk) 00:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Red Warbler range map

Putting a range map in the taxobox is a long-standing convention here on the English wikipedia. I'm not going to immediately revert this, but I have requested comment on the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds page, if you'd like to contribute your reasons for changing this. MeegsC | Talk 11:36, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

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Siberian Nuthatch

While I can see that this might be a candidate for species status, apart from the quoted paper I haven't myself come across any indication that species status has been accepted by any relevant national or international body or major secondary source. I'm not objecting to the article, but it would be helpful if it was supported by references other than to just one primary source, cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

@Jimfbleak: Hi Jim, I have no opinion about how you should consider it on the Wikipedia in English. What I know is that the French language one decided to follow IOC classification, in which S. arctica is recognized as a true species. They follow Zink et al. 2006, Red'kin & Konovalova 2006 and Collar 2007. I am quite neutral about whether it's accurate or not to treat this taxon as a species. Let me know what you think about this. :) Totodu74 (talk) 16:00, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

By the way, I take here the time to say how much I am happy to see your great work on European species (and others). Sooner or later, I likely will translate the Eurasian Nuthatch's one into French. :) Totodu74 (talk) 16:06, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

One more thing, coming up to my mind, you could be interested by hybrids between subspecies and close related species. Hybrids in Nuthatches are summarized here, based on the McCarthy book Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World. Kind regards, Totodu74 (talk) 16:26, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, one of my refs is actually in French, so that's a start (: As I say, I think giving it full species status may be jumping the gun a bit, but as long as you don't mind it staying as a ssp at the main article for the time being, I don't mind it being a full sp at yours. All is good. I've seen the hybrid page, but HBW recognises amurensis as a valid ssp, so no problem at the moment. I might add it as footnote at some stage Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:34, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

I absolutely don't mind if you consider it is better to treat it as a ssp. HBW is at least as relevant as IOC for birds taxonomy, actually. For amurensis, I know it's often treated as a valid subspecies, I'm just reflecting what McCarthy is saying, using a conditional tense :) Totodu74 (talk) 18:28, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

For dating of different clades, do you havve access to the Pasquet's phylogeny from 2 weeks ago? I can send you this one. For example the family is given from early Miocene (for now you only talk about S. senogalliensis from lower Miocene). This is a great pulication for the small Nuthatches world ^^ Regards, Totodu74 (talk) 21:04, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Przevalski's Nuthatch

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:59, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Beautiful Nuthatch

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:47, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Masked Shrike

Sorry, should both have been 219, fixed now Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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Please explain how Louis Jurine was associated with the museum, preferably in his bio and a short comment in this list. Now the bio says that his collection is at the museum. When I was creating this list, I found than collections of a large number of people are stored at the museum, many of them donated posthumously. Meaning that this fact does not automatically mean an association of this person with the museum. Loew Galitz (talk) 22:14, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

	Merry Christmas
	Your work is impressive at the French wiki, especially on bird articles. Yunnan nuthatch and Chestnut-vented nuthatch are in the process, while Krüper's nuthatch still awaiting for citation help by other editors. Merry Christmas!

Thank you very much for your kind message! I wish you all the best too for the end of the year, and thank you for your help with illustrations. The last two images you(?) were able to free are great!! Cheers, Totodu74 (talk) 00:19, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Those images are beautiful, so without hesitation, I requested them immediately in the comment section, but unfortunately for Yunnan nuthatch, I can't convince them [2]. 2001:4455:1A9:E100:557A:CBB9:4DCF:663E (talk) 00:25, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

We'll have to be patient for this one, but meanwhile I have a very fine drawing I have specially ordered few months back. I need to take the time of taking it out of its frame and digitalize it on a good scanner some day. Totodu74 (talk) 00:40, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Isn't that tiresome? I requested another 2 images of the Yunnan nuthatch, but with a different owner this time and not a decent image like the 2 we've uploaded recently. Maybe there's a chance. I think I'm done translating nuthatches articles. As you can see, I'm having trouble citing ref 5 at White-browed nuthatch and especially nearly all Krüper's nuthatch, but without your content in French, this article would never be expanded that much. Keep up the good work on there :D. 2001:4455:1A9:E100:983C:A642:9150:905C (talk) 11:41, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Krüper's nuthatch

Hey, you might want to check that article on your french wiki. The species was said to be "least concern" from the source. Happy New Year. 2001:4455:1A9:E100:79BD:A265:FAB6:97B5 (talk) 04:19, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

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