Talk:Red-billed Chough

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[edit] Cornwall

was wondereing if it would be sensible to mention somewhere the cultural/folklore/symbolic importance of the chough in cornwall somewhere, maybe in a seperate section or else a link to the culture of cornwall article and expand it there?

It would be fine in the article, unless you think that there is enough information that it should have its own article. In that case a summary within this article, with a link, would be best. --Hey jude, don't let me down 02:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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• Bit of contradiction in the status section; an estimated 86 to 210 million individuals in Europe alone. versus The European population is between 12,265–17,370 pairs,. One of those is badly wrong. 86 million pairs in a range of 10 million square kilometres? How dense are these things? Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

OK the first figure was only 1000 times too large! If correct you could walk across the mountains on a carpet of choughs. Since they don't breed for three years and there will always be unpaired birds, I think the figures for individuals/breeding pairs are now consistent. Jimfbleak (talk) 06:05, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks pretty good for GA. I'd nominate it now. Any further fixes will be straightforward. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA Review

Article is well and professionally written, easy to read, and well researched. It passes all six of the Good Article criteria with flying colors, IMHO. Pictures are very good as well. Good work! The article will be promoted. Cheers! Dr. Cash (talk) 03:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)