Talk:Procellariiformes

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To-do list pre FA/GA?

Given this article is on an order, more discussion on the order's closest relatives, and place within aves.

Maybe a note on why Ciconiiformes has been queried or discounted.

Taxonomic history - who described them, also alternate name tubinares.

Diet - they all eat solely fish and fishoids (?) apart from naughty giant petrels?

Krill. There is a great deal more that can be said about their diet than just what they eat, read my previous efforts at [[albatross[[,

storm-petrel. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply

]

okay, I think is article is shaping up pretty well anyway. another thing may be some anatomical similarities with nearest relatives (penguins/divers) which support molecular studies. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:07, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its been in a good condition for a while. I was seriously pushing it towards FA before Bird's FA sucked the life out of me. Diet and taxonomy were the two big things left. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Salt glands

"Scientists are uncertain as to its exact processes, but do know that, in general terms, it removes salt from the system and forms a 5% saline solution that drips out of the nostrils, or is forcibly ejected in some petrels."

That phrase isn't too true anymore, specifically the part about being uncertain about the processes involved. Not sure when it was added, but M.R. Hughes has a pretty extensive review paper on salt regulation in salt gland, kidney, and gut interactions from 2003. doi:10.1016/j.cbpb.2003.09.005 Esox id^t•contribs 04:39, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I expanded that section a bit. Please clean it up if you feel the wording is ambiguous, or let me know if it's too much detail, or not enough. Esox id^t•contribs 05:14, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Nomination

I nominate this article for Good Article status based upon the following criteria:

The article sources seem to be reliable. I was able to check one source, the Van Den et al. source. The source validated the article’s claims. The article did not close paraphrase or appear to plagiarize the sources. I was not able to access many of the other sources, because they are books that I did not have access to the online version and the books were not readily available in my library.
The article presents all information in a neutral way. The article is also well-written. It is concise and keeps focus on the topic. The article also seems to be very complete. It covers a lot of information surrounding the topic.
Besides 1 citation needed spot, there are no other cleanup banners on the page. All suggestions for edits seem to have been addressed.
The article does not seem to be the subject of any ongoing or recent, unresolved edit wars. The article seems to have addressed all editing suggestions. There are even other comments on the Talk page that suggest that this page should be at least be a candidate for Good Article status. While more can be written about taxonomy and diet, the article is fairly complete without these topics. From my review, it seems to classify for Good Article even without these sections, although completing these sections will definitely enhance the completeness of the article.
The article does not specifically concern a rapid current event that has a definite endpoint.
Again, I did not notice any close paraphrasing or copyright violations. I do acknowledge that I do not have any reference-checking software, so my review of this aspect was limited.
The article has many images. The images are really attractive, as far as capturing the viewer’s attention, and relevant to the topic. All of the images used are on WikiMedia Commons and released for public use.

WhitleyTucker (talk) 11:27, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sasata (talk · contribs) 15:23, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take on this review. I'll post a full review after the citation needed tags are fixed. Sasata (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seems nom is long gone, and the article has been sparsely edited in the past few years. I've ditched the wilder claims and supplied refs for the remainder. Happy to help if I can. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:48, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking this on. I've been quite busy recently, but will try to review in the next few days. Sasata (talk) 16:49, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

lead links: order, diversity, pair bond, fledgling, endangered, taxa

done

the etymology section is pretty short and I think it cold be easily subsumed into the Taxonomy section

merged

Biology

possibly useful links:tropical, temperate, polar,

done

Southern (and Northern) Hemisphere should be capitalized (check for instances throughout article)

done

Ok, I got this far and then noticed that several paragraphs and end-of-paragraph sentences are missing sources. I've added "citation needed" tags to these; will continue the review when these have been addressed. Sasata (talk) 15:36, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done so far: Bermuda petrel, Nesting behaviour, slow breeding, Godman's book, diving-petrels, coloration.

~~some other refs may need help ...~~ OK, have cleared all 'citation needed' tags with new refs (and added a couple extra citations with new details, too).

"and a 3.6 m (12 ft) wingspan", "and a 32 cm (13 in) wingspan." these sizes are used adjectivally, so should be hyphenated (parameter "adj=on" if using a convert template)

done, it demands abbr=off, it seems

"The beaks are made up from several plates." -> made up of?

done

link plumage

done

does Maxillary unguis need to be capitalized?

no, nor to be linked; done

"and is used mainly for storage of energy rich food during their long flights,[15] and is fed to their young, as well as being used for defence." tweak wording to remove repetitive "and"

done

"Procellariiformes have a need to lower their salt content due to their drinking of ocean water." awkward prose

reworked

"species that don't require it." avoid contractions in formal prose

removed

"5% saline" -> percent (review throughout article, usage of symbol or word is inconsistent)

replaced all "%" with "percent" and used "to" instead of dash for percentage ranges

suggest writing out Na+ and NaCl in full, and linking

done

"The current model for the secretion of salt itself is attributed to an electrochemical gradient, specifically Na+/K+-ATPase." am thinking that this sentence could be left out, as it's not particularly specific to this group of birds

removed

link carrion

done

"The importance of each of these food sources varies from species to species and family to family, for example of the two albatross species found in Hawaii, one, the Black-footed Albatross, takes mostly fish while the Laysan feeds on squid." split into two sentences?

split

"The albatrosses feed on fish, squid and krill, among the procellariids the prions concentrate on small crustacea, the fulmarine petrels take fish and krill but little squid, whereas the Procellaria petrels take a lot of squid." this sentence sounds run-on and awkward; rephrase?

split

"The storm petrels will take small droplets of oil" where do they get these oil droplets from?

surface, ref added

"Breeding behaviour: See also Unusual Seabird Breeding Behavior it looks odd to have two spelling of behaviour; suggest piping a link for the second

done

"In the ringing studies birds ringed as chicks are recaptured close to their original nests, a tendency which can be extreme at times" awkward

yes, ouch, reworded

"In Russian, many petrel species" In Russia, or in the Russian language

done

"When in 1901, the Russian writer" ->"In 1901, when the Russian writer"; perhaps link revolution

done

"only been seen a handful of times" colloquial

replaced

most of the first paragraph of the "Threats and conservation" subsection is cited to ref #55, but this source only covers the Bermuda petrel, not the many other numbers given for other species

added refs from IUCN and other sources; NZ Storm Petrel's breeding ground has just been found!

"However bad this number is" not NPOV; also "This has led to spectacular declines in some species"

done

please review all figure captions to see if they require fullstops or not per
WP:Caption

done, added one ".", removed another.

link understory, oil spill, F. DuCane Godman,

done

who first used the name Procellariiformes for the order? (I'm guessing it was Fürbringer in 1888, says the taxobox, but any more details and perhaps a citation would be good)

seems so, added claim and ref

"There are a total of around 125 living species of Procellariiformes worldwide" the taxobox says 108 species

both now say 125 (Brooke)

link Oligocene, Miocene (is linked next section, should be earlier), phylogeny, clade, Paleogene

linked earlier, unlinked later

article needs to be trimmed of duplicate links (do you have Ucucha's dup link script? [1])

thanks, done

I have no expertise about this subject, so the best I can do to assess
criterion 3a & b
is to look at other comparable sources and see if there's anything missing. To wit:
Brittanica mentions some interesting facts which might be added to enhance our article: (don't feel compelled to add them, I'm partially thinking out loud)

Maori people harvest titi, "a right assured them in perpetuity by treaty with Queen Victoria" (is this related to kaitiakitanga?); they also mention similar situations with Manx shearwaters and Greater shearwaters. There's some other examples that could be used to flesh out our section on "Exploitation" (but it would be preferable to find better sources)

Added Fisher's estimate of Fulmar usage on St Kilda, refs

"One species, the waved albatross (D. irrorata), is unique in that it breeds only in the Galapagos Islands at the Equator …"

this source says the smallest members of the order are the prions, with wingspans of 9–12 inches

added details and ref for the smallest prion, the fairy prion

"The giant petrel is probably the only tubinare agile enough on land to kill other birds; at its nesting grounds it will attack young penguins inadequately guarded by their parents."

It already mentioned that they are unique in feeding on land, I added that they eat chicks too. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:29, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The down grows rapidly; a second down sprouts (to which the first remains attached), and the baby is soon homeothermic…"

"Before it leaves the nest, the chick is deserted by the parents, who retire to molt at sea. This begins a starvation period, which may last a week in the smallest petrels, 12 days in the medium-sized shearwaters, and considerably longer in the largest species, before the fledgling goes to sea." there's more interesting information shortly following about the great distances and the speed various species have to fly on their migration routes

added section on long flights, navigation in Manx shearwater, refs

"The oldest tubinare fossil is a giant albatross (Gigantornis) from the Eocene Epoch (about 50 million years ago) of Nigeria." - this contradicts what we have

Gigantornis is a pseudotooth, not an albatross. User:Dysmorodrepanis is the one to ask if there are any older fossils found recently. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:29, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mayr has just published all you need some months ago methinks ;- ). And FWIW Bourdon has some new and cool work on Gigantornis (Finally! Yay! :D)

Conclusion of Mayr & Smith (2012b) "Phylogenetic affinities and taxonomy of the Oligocene Diomedeoididae, and the basal divergences amongst extant procellariiform birds":

The present analyses conﬁrm a position of Diomedeidae outside a clade including Hydrobatidae [including "Oceanitidae"], Pelecanoididae, and Procellariidae. [...] The fossil record is also in accordance with an early divergence of Diomedeidae, which are the only procellariiform crown group taxon with deﬁnitive Palaeogene representatives [Tydea septentrionalis: Rupelian of the North Sea] (Mayr & Smith, 2012[a]). Disregarding the early Oligocene 'Larus' [= "Puffinus"] raemdonckii (see comments [below]) as well as undescribed late Oligocene and questionable early Miocene records (Olson, 1985; Warheit, 2002), the earliest fossils of unambiguously identiﬁed Procellariidae are from the middle Miocene (Olson, 1985, 2009; Seguí et al., 2001; Warheit, 2002). The oldest fossils of Pelecanoididae date from the early Miocene (Worthy et al., 2007), and the ﬁrst Hydrobatidae are from the late Miocene (Howard, 1978). Although occurrence of stem group Diomedeidae in the early Oligocene (Mayr & Smith, 2012[a]) indicates that stem group representatives of the clade including Hydrobatidae, Procellariidae, and Pelecanoididae must have also existed by that time, the diversiﬁcation of the crown group appears to have occurred at a later date.

(I have not personally checked out "P." raemdonckii, but as per Mayr's description it is the best candidate for a "stem group representativ[e] of the clade including Hydrobatidae, Procellariidae, and Pelecanoididae" we know ATM. You can write that in the article[*] and cite Mayr & Smith (2012b), they don't say it verbatim but their data (Appendix 2 Character 32) say so - the one remarkable trait of "P." raemdonckii (a single broken bone) is a tell-tale autapomorphy of that clade.)

[*] "While little can be said about "P." raemdonckii – originally described as Larus raemdonckii – until the fossil (a single piece of ... found ... [add details from literature]) or additional remains are found and thoroughly studied, it may well have been just such an ancestral shearwater: the fossil was described as having a characteristic knob near the elbow joint, which is absent or vestigial in the more basal Procellariiformes^{Mayr & Smith (2012b)}." for example.

Eyecandy:

Paleogeography around the time of the ancient albatross Tydea and the enigmatic "P." raemdonckii

This paleomap is approximately correct for the day and age of "P." raemdonckii & Tydea, which both were found in Belgium, i.e. inhabited at least the North Sea basin and probably (plausibly, given the range requirements of crown taxa) W or SE (there is sime Turgai-ish fossil record I think... Olson 1985 should have it. The data accompanying the map are strange or obsolete (35 Ma Oligocene?!) and it's best dated vaguely as Eo-Oligo boundary-ish... you might wanna make one where X marks the spot or some such stuff.

Code as copypasta:

[[File:Blakey_35moll.jpg|thumb|right|[[Paleogeography]] at the time of the ancient albatross ''[[Tydea]]'' and the enigmatic ''[["Puffinus" raemdonckii|"P." raemdonckii]]'']]

Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 23:38, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be good if there were a couple of sentences to describe the distinguishing taxonomic characteristics of each of the families.

done

have answered most of these 'thinking aloud' items, let me know if the others are needed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:11, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Until the beginning of the 20th century, the family Hydrobatidae was named Procellariidae, and the family now called Procellariidae was rendered "Puffinidae." The order itself was called Tubinares." needs a source

done

I think we have covered all of the GA criteria. I've checked the images, and all are suitably licensed. A few random spotchecks revealed no problems with close paraphrasing or otherwise, and I'm confident the article meets the broad coverage criterion of GA. Thanks for the work you've put into this article, Chiswick Chap (and Sabine's Sunbird); I'm happy to promote to GA now. Sasata (talk) 23:07, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Good to work with you. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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