Talk:Puffbird

A fact from Puffbird appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 December 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that puffbirds (pictured) have been nicknamed bobos (Spanish for "dummies") due to their propensity to sit motionless waiting for prey?

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I edited this article so it has more information and I hope it is no longer a stub. I expanded with the aid of a book called Complete Birds of the World. SparrowHK (talk) 08:27, 8 December 2014 (UTC)SparrowHK[reply]

I have rerated it as a start - thankyou for expanding. If we can expand it five-fold it could be on WP:DYK. I will see what I can do. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:14, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Primobucco mcgrewi

The idea that Primobucco mcgrewi is an ancestral puffbird seems to be out of date. See for instance: Daniel T. Ksepka and Julia A. Clarke, Primobucco mcgrewi (Aves: Coracii) from the Eocene Green River Formation: New Anatomical Data from the Earliest Constrained Record of Stem Rollers Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 215-225. William Avery (talk) 14:18, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunate name then, oh well, let's update the articles....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:00, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Sorry I was a bit pushed for time earlier (and still am), so just dumped this rather terse note here. I'll do a little more digging and get back on this one. William Avery (talk) 20:31, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No it's interesting - actually there appears to be quite alot on primobucco so mught be DYK-worthy. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:12, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and still worthy of mention here on account of that misleading name "Primobucconidae". Oh the perils of priority! William Avery (talk) 22:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially useful refs for taxonomy and more

Hope to be able to contribute directly in a week or so, but here are some useful refs; I was specifically looking for info on taxonomy, but some of these contain much more than that:

MeegsC (talk) 04:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

white-faced puffbird

"white-faced puffbird" (is it 'white-faced nunbird'?) etc are hard to identify without the birders' book: can we have scientific names (italicized) in parentheses?--Wetman (talk) 02:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]