Talk:Field Guide/Birds/Eastern US and Canada

Vocalizations
Need to go through commons:Category:Bird_vocalizations and do two things: --Jomegat (talk) 03:24, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Add calls to birds we have here and which have calls there.
 * 2) Add birds & calls we don't have here, but which we do have there.

Origins of this Chapter
As the main author of the Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book, I had started to put together a chapter for the Birds honor. After doing a substantial amount of work on requirement 5 (which is to identify several bird species), it occurred to me that what I had really done was made a pretty good start on a Field Guide to Birds. I decided that it would be a good idea to move that chapter to a book in its own right, and when I tried, I found this book. Since all of the birds I had entered were the ones with which I was familiar already, it naturally covered birds of the Eastern US. That particular chapter in this field guide was a red link, so I just moved it all, lock, stock, and barrel. There are a gob of moves I need to do on the subparts.

The content for each bird presented here is done with a template called Template:Bird id. This template could still use a bit of work, but it's not too bad the way it is now. It might be a good idea to break up the description field to cover, physical appearance, habitat, etc, but I may leave that to a more ambitious person.

I have also put together a section on Edible Wild Plants, and it seems like a few more "field-guidy" chapters. I will move those as I come across them as well.

-- Jim Thomas (aka Jomegat) 02:08, 30 March 2007 (UTC)