The Birds WikiProject Newsletter
February 2009

Apologies for the long gap between the last newsletter and this one; if anyone is interested in helping to produce these regular updates, assistance would be much appreciated! A new year means new goals: can we get to 50 featured articles for the project before mid-year? We're only three articles away at the moment...

Articles of note

New featured articles and lists (since Oct 31):

1. Northern Bald Ibis (January 27)

New good articles (since Oct 31):

1. Huia (January 13)
2. Djibouti Francolin (January 16)
3. Golden White-eye (January 20)

Welcome to our newest members

• BluWare ( talk · contribs)
• First Light ( talk · contribs)
• Myrecovery ( talk · contribs)
• Nestguard ( talk · contribs)
• Speednat ( talk · contribs)
• The Bushranger ( talk · contribs)
• Vulture19 ( talk · contribs)

Project news

• After a few month hiatus, we're about to start up our monthly collaboration article improvement drive again. The results of last year's collaborations were mixed. We started strongly, with three of our first four efforts reaching FA status—two of them before their months had even expired! However, things quickly tailed off after that, and none of our later efforts even reached GA status. Please vote for 2009's first collaboration, which will be chosen on Valentine's Day (14 February). If none of the existing nominations is of interest, consider adding a new one!
• Bogbumper ( talk · contribs) took up the last newsletter's challenge, and started our article about the Northern Rockhopper Penguin, which is recognized by many of the world's taxonomic authorities as being worthy of species status. This month, we're looking for someone to start an article about distraction displays—behaviors used by birds to lure or drive potential predators away from nests or young. The editor who starts this article and gets it to at least a reasonable stub class will be mentioned in next month's newsletter.

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