Talk:Capri Bird Observatory

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Capri Bird Observatory

• ... that there is a Swedish-Italian bird observatory (pictured) housed among the ruins of a medieval castle on Capri? Source: Hjort, 2006: "The Capri Bird Observatory is situated in Castello Barbarossa, an old fortification overlooking the Bay of Naples in southwestern Italy. The observatory was founded in 1956 by the Swedish Ornithological Society in cooperation with Villa San Michele. Until the mid- 1980s it was entirely a Swedish venture, whereafter also Italian ornithologists joined, first the LIPU bird protection organization, later the ringing center in Bologna through its Piccole Isole project."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Sedgwick Collins

Created by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 167 past nominations.

Yakikaki (talk) 21:02, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

• @Yakikaki: this is awesome! article is new enough, long enough, neutral, and copyvio clean per an Earwig check; hook is interesting; image is freely licensed; QPQ is done. The image is unfortunately much too zoomed out to work at the small scale of the Main Page – maybe it could be cropped? Also, I have a small question about sourcing on hook and article: what does it mean here for an observatory to be Swedish and Italian? Is there joint government ownership or control of the property/territory, or is it an Italian observatory used by Swedish and Italian researchers? Also, is it that unusual for a scientific institution to accept international researchers? For that and other reasons, suggesting this copyedit:
  ALT0a: ... that the Capri Bird Observatory (pictured) is housed among the ruins of an island medieval castle?
  After clearing that up, we should be good to go – nice work, Yakikaki! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Hi there theleekycauldron and thanks for the kind words! I'm happy you liked the article and also happy about the suggested ALT hook – in fact it reads much better, so thanks for that. I'll see if I can manage to crop the picture, I'll have to do that tomorrow. And as for the rest, even though that's settled through the ALT – gosh, I don't really know if it's that common with this kind of joint institutions, and the sources are not very precise on how the governance is handled (at least not on the Italian side, on the Swedish side it seems to be run from Sweden and the land actually belongs to the Swedish state) but I noticed at least one source highlighting it as a good example of international cooperation within the field. But in any case, I like the ALT so that maybe settles it. Thanks for taking the time to make the review! Yakikaki (talk) 20:30, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
    • It'd definitely be interesting if the Swedish state owned the observatory, if there's sourcing on that. I think for now I'm gonna make the lead a bit more ambiguous on this point, and ping me if you add a crop :) or now, good to go with ALT0a and no image only. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:14, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
      • Hey theleekycauldron, I've cropped the picture and updated it, that's the best I can do with my skills I think. I hope you think it's OK. I think your changes to the lead were very good, too – let's leave it at what we know, that both the Swedes and Italians use it. Yakikaki (talk) 20:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)