Template:Did you know nominations/Madagascan hoopoe
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 14:59, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
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Madagascan hoopoe
- ... that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe?
- Reviewed: Australian Journal of Herpetology
5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 09:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC).
Interesting birds, on good sources, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. - I'm not happy with the hook, because I understood "song" as sung by people, such as a tribe. Thinking of an opera, DYK? - Could we say "vocalisation" instead, as the lead does? ... or picture a creature? ... or what? ... say that it's by it that they are distinguished? - If you want it this way, I'll approve, though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:07, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Well, birds can certainly sing, listen to the dawn chorus for example, but I'm not sure that the hoopoe's voice is very musical! I rather fancied ALT1, but I thought it might be unacceptable, so what about ALT2? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:23, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that the Madagascan hoopoe and the African hoopoe speak different languages?
- ALT2 ... that the Madagascan hoopoe can be distinguished from the otherwise similar African hoopoe by its vocalisations?
- Thank you, - returning from a bike trip with many bird songs, + cuckoo. Sure I know that birds sing, but I mean in the context of DYK you have no idea it's about birds ;) - If that's what you want, I approve all three.
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:21, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
