Talk:Honeyeater

Birds Mid‑importance

Honeyeater is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Please do not substitute this template.BirdsWikipedia:WikiProject BirdsTemplate:WikiProject Birdsbird articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Birds To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea (more)
Cleanup : Bullfinch • Vesper sparrow • Bird flight • Bird bath (more)
Copyedit : Plushcap • Magpie duck • Saker falcon (more)
Expand : Phalarope • Nidicolous • Gouldian finch • Cathartes • Cnemophilidae • Avian malaria (more)
NPOV : Debeaking • Driven grouse shooting • Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (more)
Stubs : Cathartiformes • Semiplumbeous hawk • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill • Sunda scops owl (more)
Update : Coal tit • Scottish crossbill • New Caledonian lorikeet • Operation Migration (more)
Verify : Argus (bird) • Blyth's frogmouth • Nik Borrow • Pytilia • Fregata • Chestnut-headed tesia • Darter • Pallid scops owl • Starling (more)
Wikify : Ninox boobook ocellata • The Institute for Bird Populations (more)
Other : Add photos to bird articles needing photos (search Flickr for free images). Add taxonomic authorities to genus articles.

More outstanding tasks at the project's cleanup listing, Category:Birds articles needing attention, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Todo.

[Untitled][edit]

The species list of theis article is out of order (per HBW) and is also woefully incomplete. Several genera and well over half the species are missing. I am creating a new list here which I will copy and paste over once I have finished. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Split[edit]

I think it is time to split this article to Honeyeater and List of honeyeaters. Any objections? Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No objections so I made the split. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am rerating as C - needs discussion on intrafamilial classification, some evolution, and inline references. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:48, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arguable mis-emphasis on diet?[edit]

This and all of the honeyeater species article that I have read so far give the overwhelming impression that they are primarily nectar-eating birds that occasionally take insects. Note that they don't explicitly say this, but the emphasis on the brush tongue and other details sure give that impression. Given the highly seasonal nature of many Australian nectar-producing plants, that is surely incorrect. Old_Wombat (talk) 09:30, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not the best image?[edit]

The Eastern Spinebill is hardly the most representative of honeyeaters. Can we have something else? The Red Wattlebird or White-Plumed Honeyeater are probably the most common and much more typical in appearance and behaviour. Old_Wombat (talk) 09:33, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Honeyeater. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120501064103/http://loco.biosci.arizona.edu/driskell/Driskell_Christidis_2004.pdf to http://loco.biosci.arizona.edu/driskell/Driskell_Christidis_2004.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:47, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]