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July 26, 2012Good article nomineeListed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Brown Thrasher was originally nominated as the state bird of Georgia by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?

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Nice article, Stan. We are very thin on N. American species. I've changed the range, since I've seen these in southernmost Ontario, so the breeding range must extent up that far.

In Florida, I was shown a supposed Brown Thrasher by a guy supposedly writing a book on the birds of the Everglades. It looked like a Mockingbird to me, especially sat on a telephone post, so I shan't rush to buy his book! jimfbleak 16:36 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)

At my old home in South Florida we used to get them every year, at we believed they were Thrashers. Being that it was the closest thing we could figure from our 40 year old bird book. They used to nest in the cherry hedges and could be seen hopping through the yard through the day looking for food. Then they suddenly stopped coming.--Skeev 19:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've got one that combs the ground on the yard around my bird feeder just about every day. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.109.152.109 (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

imfomathon on the brown thrasher —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.248.82 (talk) 16:54, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Expanded article

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I've been editing up the length of the page of this article over the past two days. It still needs work, I have to finish adding the citations where needed(among other issues), but I felt I could at least added what I had done so far. Far from great to me, but better that where it was prior to the day I added the Georgia WP on the talk page. Thanks for reading, and let me know if I did something wrong, this is the first article I've done extensive work on. LeftAire (talk) 05:05, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Brown Thrasher/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:15, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -I'll make straightforward copyedits as I go (please revert if I inadvertently change the meaning) and jot questions below: Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:15, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • There is likely to be a bunch more journal stuff - so will add some as I go.
  • Link things like other species of bird mentioned, but only at the first time mentioned.
  • I removed the gallery as it only had images of adult birds, which added nothing new to the article. Look at the commons images to see what could be added. There are a couple of sound files. I added a nest and egg image and the audubon painting looks nice. The best thing is to sprinkle relevant images thru the text.
  • Also, have more of a look in Google Scholar for articles the Brown Thrasher - I can fetch some fulltexts if needed. I'll look a little later too, but need to sleep now.
    • I've added a few more links, and edited a few that weren't properly linked over the past few weeks. I'll try and find more peer reviews and Google Scholar links, but the majority that I could find useful are from JSTOR and out of my reach for money. I though I had something with the relation with to the closest Thrashers by adding onto it, but the BT was thrown out of the Study b/c it wasn't closely related to the Mimids of the Caribbean compared to the Northern Mockingbird & Grey Catbird. I'll try and find some more later this week, and sorry for the late response. LeftAire (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The first one has fulltext available, checking the others. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • (1) Something's happened to refs 18 and 19 in formatting. (2) adding imperial units to some metric units lacking same (3) we'd normally add all the isbns to the books (found down the page on the "about this book" page of google books....sorry, I know it's a hassle.
  • The Animal Diversity website has good material on life expectancy and life span which should be in the article.

Nearly there...good work so far....Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:08, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • The isbn's won't be much as a hassle as that 18 citation. I cannot get that fixed for some odd reason (I've had it happen for a few of those PDF files, but never this much) and I'm taking a break from that and going to look up those ISBN's. Shouldn't be long. LeftAire (talk)`

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5. Reasonably stable?

No edit wars, etc. (Vandalism does not count against GA):

6. Illustrated by images, when possible and appropriate?:

Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: One last query is where file:Brown-Thrasher-rangemap.gif actually came from - the user must have got it from somewhere which can be identified as the reference. this looks a bit different. You could ask the author or if you find one with the same boundaries then list that as a source of the information. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Pass or Fail: - looking all in order but one image query. If you have a reliable source map which matches then list it on the image description. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The image link problem is fixed. Found it on the National Geographic website. LeftAire (talk) 14:39, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Obvious etymology

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The name "thrasher" is most obviously a variant of "thresher." The bird's foraging behavior, like all of the "thrashers," is to thresh -- to go through loose leaf and scrub and move its bill from side to side in order to disturb or uncover food. Therefore, the idea that the name might have come from aggressive behavior, intimated in the "Behavior" sub, is just plain weird. Even without "thrasher" being an Americanism or ornithological adaptation, the birds thrash the understorey. Hithladaeus (talk) 20:08, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Feeding section problem

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The sentence “It has also been noted for its flexibility in catching quick insects, as the amount of vertebrae in its neck exceeds giraffes and camels” is problematic; “the amount of vertebrae” is ambiguous and possibly misleading, especially when connected to giraffes and camels. All mammals have the same number of neck vertebrae (“amount” makes no sense), regardless of the length of the neck. Some really more familiar with the bird’s anatomy and sources should amend this to be more clear. Kludgel (talk) 16:31, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]