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

• Kirkmona ( talk · contribs)
• Pamela Gardiner ( talk · contribs)
• PrehistoricManiac08 ( talk · contribs)
• Sting au ( talk · contribs)

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

• 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.

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