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	Congratulations, Natureguy1980, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia! Thank you for improving bird-related content, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep up the great work! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Maryana! Natureguy1980 (talk) 03:21, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

birds
Thank you, Michael, birder by vocation, for quality articles such as Clay-colored thrush, for precision in taxonomy, names and history especially for the birds of North America and Middle America, for "a standard is better than none" and "Hyphens, and the cases of the letters that follow them, convey information and remove ambiguity", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were the 914th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Five years ago, you were recipient no. 914 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]