Talk:Alpine accentor

Behavioral Ecology and Notes on Improvements

The overall organization of the page is not aligned with the most common structure of the species pages in WikiProject Birds. On this page, the article sections are slightly differently characterized. I think changing the titles would increase quality and the page’s consistency with the rest of its project’s intention. Although the biology section, which should be renamed to behavior, adequately describes the birds mating strategy, it is lackluster and slightly confusing on its explanation of the benefit of shared mating. A male will only invest in a female’s brood, through helping with feeding, if he has mated with the female and suspects paternity. In their multimale groups, sharing mating within the group is beneficial for the female, as it insures that more males will help with feeding as more will suspect paternity. Furthermore, the article sections labeled morphology and biology both inexplicably exclude female competition. This competition comes in the form of coloration, bright red cloacas, and singing to males during periods of fertility. This note demonstrates a discrepancy in the page, where it is said, “sexes are similar, although the male may be contrasted in appearance.” Any amount of sexual dimorphism should certainly be described and it is misleading to indicate that the sexes are the same. In description, there should additionally be a mention of the alpine accentors being a montane songbird. Although the page is accurately graded as “start” quality, it does need significant work to become a usable source of information. Samara levine (talk) 03:05, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Washington University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Fall term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 16:06, 2 January 2023 (UTC)