Welcome to the sixth issue of the Birds WikiProject newsletter. Things were a bit slower in the "Articles of Note" department last month, but many editors were quietly working away on an impressive array of tasks. Casliber ( talk · contribs), in particular, has expanded multiple articles—getting many of them featured in the Main Page DYK section in the process.

Articles of note

New featured articles and lists:

1. Nuthatch (July 25)

New good articles:

1. Greater Crested Tern (July 15)
2. Great Spotted Kiwi (July 29)

Bird article statistics

Bird articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	19	61	152			234
FL	1		6	23			30
FM					616		616
GA	6	10	34	149			199
B	10	37	66	229			342
C	12	100	253	1,056		5	1,426
Start	5	114	832	6,175		3	7,129
Stub		16	1,310	7,969		2	9,297
List		10	75	734	107	1	927
Category				4	3,866		3,870
Disambig				2	195		197
File				1	305		306
Portal					57		57
Project					58		58
Redirect	1	14	98	222	2,016		2,351
Template				1	276		277
Other					6		6
Assessed	37	320	2,735	16,717	7,502	11	27,322
Unassessed						10	10
Total	37	320	2,735	16,717	7,502	21	27,332
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 98,555			Ω = 5.29

Collaboration efforts

• This month's collaboration is our first group attempt to upgrade a genus level article. Ara is a genus of macaws—spectacularly large parrots which live in the neotropics. Several of the eight living species are highly endangered (at least one is already extinct), and all are beloved by aviculturalists. Help us improve the article about these intriguing birds.
• In a related note, be sure to vote for September's collaboration, which will be chosen on 21 August. As always, we could use a few new nominations...

WikiProject Birds Cleanup listing

Thanks to Snowmanradio ( talk · contribs), there's now a link to the most recent cleanup listing right from the navigation bar. And according to that listing, we've added nearly 100 new bird articles in the past month, with only a small rise in the number of articles needing attention, so we're doing something right! There are still more than 700 articles requiring work though—everything from copyediting and the addition of sources, to requests for expansion and verifications of facts. If you're looking for something helpful to do which takes less time than creating an article from scratch, sorting some of these problems out might be right up your alley. Special thanks to Rabo3 ( talk · contribs), who's been plugging away on the neotropical articles, resolving all sorts of issues...

Project news

• We're finally down to fewer than 30 "stub" bird family articles, thanks to herculean efforts by Sabine's Sunbird ( talk · contribs). Can you help to improve the remainder? If so, 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.

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