User:Craigthebirder

Craigthebirder, as you have no doubt guessed, is an avid birdwatcher named Craig. I'm from northeast Ohio, USA.

I'm a fairly new contributor who started in the usual way with a couple of dozen edits, nearly all of which were small grammatical fixes or other cleanup-type changes.

I added my first full article (The Army Air Forces in World War II) in May 2016.

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In September 2016 I began updating the existing "List of birds of ..." pages for the western hemisphere to the most recent available bird lists and taxonomies. I also added bird lists for those US states and Canadian provinces which didn't have them. Maintaining them was an ongoing task, with annual updates of North and Middle American taxonomy and more frequent ones of South American, plus periodic updates to state, province, and national park lists published by their respective ornithological associations or other bodies. I also annually updated the lists for the continent of Africa and 10 of its countries plus Thailand - all places I've either birded or hope to bird - and 17 European country lists which were previously rudimentary, unsourced, or far out of date. After doing the August 2021 North American taxonomic and list updates, I turned over the maintenance of all of the lists except those of South America, U.S. national parks, and my home Ohio to other editors.

In spring 2021 I began expanding the stubs of South and Central American and Caribbean bird species articles. I've so far completed 2639: those for screamers (2 species), ducks, geese, and swans (8), the guan/chachalaca/curassow family (34), New World quail (13), the nightjar and allies family (35), potoos (5), swifts (24), hummingbirds (317), cuckoos (16), pigeons and doves (42), rails, gallinules, and coots (39), trumpeters (genus and 3 species), plovers (6), seedsnipes (3), snipes (3), gulls and terns (6), hawks (9), owls (41), quetzals and trogons (19), kingfishers (4), todies (1), motmots (8), jacamars (15), the puffbird family (38), New World barbets (13), the prong-billed barbet (1), toucans (37), woodpeckers (93), seriemas (1), falcons and caracaras (13), New World parrots (74), the sapayoa (1), ovenbirds (319), antbirds (238), antthrushes (11), antpittas (66), gnateaters (6), tapaculos (49), royal flycatchers (5), crescentchests (5), tyrant flycatchers (402), cotingas (41), manakins, tityras, becards, and allies (73), vireos and greenlets (41), wrens (62), crows and jays (14), silky-flycatchers (3), chickadees and titmice (3), gnatcatchers (15), the mockingbird family (17), swallows and martins (13), thrushes and allies (49), dippers (2), pipits (9), finches and euphonias (42), Rosy thrush-tanager (1), New World sparrows (77), chat-tanagers (2), Hispaniolan tanagers (4), spindalises (2), the wrenthrush (1), Cuban warblers (2), the New World blackbird family (50), New World warblers (59), mitrospingid tanagers (4), the cardinal family (27), and "true" tanagers (1).