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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk07:15, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Male wreathed hornbill
Male wreathed hornbill
  • ... that the Wreathed hornbill (male pictured) moves up to 24.8 km (15.4 mi) per day and disperses seeds for up to 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from its nesting site? Source: Naniwadekar, R.; Rathore, A.; Shukla, U.; Chaplod, S. & Datta, A. (2019). "How far do Asian forest hornbills disperse seeds?" (PDF). Acta Oecologica. 101: 103482. Bibcode:2019AcO...10103482N. doi:10.1016/j.actao.2019.103482. S2CID 208589706.
  • ... that the Wreathed hornbill (male pictured) lives in flocks of up to 68 birds/km2 (180 birds/sq mi) in December? Source: Naniwadekar, R. & Datta, A. (2013). "Spatial and temporal variation in hornbill densities in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, north-east India". Tropical Conservation Science. 6 (6): 734–748. doi:10.1177/194008291300600603. S2CID 54872934.
  • ... that the Wreathed hornbill (male pictured) is hunted for consumption of its meat, and that its casque is used as headgear by local people in Arunachal Pradesh? Source: Krishna, C.M.; Sarma, K. & Kumar, A. (2012). "Rapid assessment of Wreathed Hornbill Aceros undulates (Aves: Bucerotidae) populations and conservation issues in fragmented lowland tropical forests of Arunachal Pradesh, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 4 (14): 3342–3348. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o2969.3342-8.

5x expanded by Kelseyjaclynwilson (talk) and BhagyaMani (talk). Nominated by Casliber (talk) at 12:12, 11 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: This is a nice article, which is new enough, long enough and well sourced. I am taking the offline sources in good faith. However, I have an issue with the hook which is not directly supported by the source. The source says that the two tribes hunt the bird for bushmeat and decorate their headgear and houses with its feathers and beaks. In another place it just says that "the gizzard of the hornbill was used in some local medicines for curing stomach disorders," but nowhere is this stated as a belief of those two tribes. So it needs to be amended to reflect the source. Alternatively there are some "fascinating facts" at the Oakland Zoo source that could be used, noting that they use a different English name, but the same Latin one. That name, Malayan wreathed hornbill, should perhaps be included in the lede. Also I wonder if the existing alternative name should just be bar-pouched hornbill as per the same website? Bermicourt (talk) 13:57, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your feedback, Bermicourt! Re the gizzard : true is that it is not stated in any source that the local people believe .., but only that they use it for curing stomach problems. So I wonder whether the hook should / can be changed to either a) that they use it as medicine, or b) to a different hook altogether, e.g. something about the bird itself : that it flies up to some 25 km from its breeding site in search of favoured fruits, much farther than any other hornbill species. I didn't add this info yet, but can do if you think it worthwhile?
Re the name "Malayan wreathed hornbill" : Blanford (1889) seems to have been the first and only one who used this name, but I haven't seen this in any other publication yet. – BhagyaMani (talk) 21:44, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks also to @Casliber: for DYK nominating this page!! – BhagyaMani (talk) 21:44, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think both work and marginally prefer the second hook. IMHO this is now GTG. Bermicourt (talk) 18:54, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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