Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Featured topics

OK. In my opinion, we should first lay out the 4 (or more if anyone wants to nominate another) Featured Topic ideas and vote on them. And what do you all think of my targets? Am I overambitious, underambitous, or what? I'll do The Extinct Bird of North America and New World Vultures nominees and the base for Ratites and Procellariiformes: would someone else like to flesh out the details? Without delay, they are:

Pros: This topic covers extinct birds, which are generally better known than some of the other bird species in other topics. There is a lot of taxonomic variety in this group, so no one would be bored of doing another vulture article. There are a lot of sources out there on these birds, and the history section would be a major focus in the article.

Cons: Extinct birds have been called depressing. This topic is featured on North America. This uses a very narrowly defined meaning on North America - currently missing Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Islands and Hawaii- because it only deals with what the ABA defines as North America ornithologically.

Possible Additions: Extinct Subspecies, like Heath Hen and Dusky Seaside Sparrow.

Support:

Article Title	Start of Project Class	Current Class	Target Class
New World Vulture	B	B	FA
American Black Vulture	Start	FA	Done
Turkey Vulture	Start	FA	Done
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture	Stub	GA	Done
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture	Stub	GA	Done
California Condor	B	FA	Done
Andean Condor	B	FA	Done
King Vulture	Start	FA	Done

Pros: This topic covers several South American species, which are poorly represented among the North American and Australian biased GAs and FAs. This family is cool and interesting. All of them are alive and well.

Cons: All the birds are vultures. The two yellow-headeds will be extremely hard to get to GA.

Possible Additions: Cathartes, a start, if we decide genera should be included in a FT.

Support:

1. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Rufous-crowned Sparrow 00:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. Jude. 11:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
4. Jimfbleak (talk) 13:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. Rainbow Shifter (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Title	Current Class	Target Class
Procellariiformes	Start	FA
Procellariidae	FA	Done
Diomedeidae (albatrosses)	FA	Done
Hydrobatidae (storm-petrels)	GA	FA
Pelecanoididae (diving petrels)	Start	FA

Pros: This order includes four highly interesting families of birds who spend their entire lives out at sea. These are family and order articles, which should have plenty of information. We already have two of them at FA. They live across the globe.

Cons: All are seabirds.

Possible Additions: None that I can tell

Support:

1. Jimfbleak (talk) 13:16, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article Title	Current Class	Target Class
Ratite	B	FA
Ostrich	B	FA
American Rhea	Start	GA/FA
Darwin's Rhea	Start	GA/FA
Southern Cassowary	Start	GA
Dwarf Cassowary	Start	GA
Northern Cassowary	Stub	GA
Emu	FA	Done
Great Spotted Kiwi	GA	Done
Little Spotted Kiwi	Start	GA
Rowi	Stub	GA
Tokoeka	Stub	GA
North Island Brown Kiwi	Start	GA

Almost Certainly Include:

Pros: This topic covers birds from around the globe. Many of the biggest or most famous are included in this topic. We could knock out an entire order completely by doing this.

Cons: Some of the cassowaries and kiwis could be hard to bring to GA.

Possible Additions: We could include more recently extinct species, namely Elephant Bird (B), Moa (B), Kangaroo Island Emu (Stub), and King Island Emu (Stub).

Support:

Pros: This order includes four highly interesting families of birds. Two articles are in reasonable shape. Cons: Family articles are hard Possible Additions: None that I can tell

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