Template:Did you know nominations/Red-billed Quelea

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The result was: promoted by HaEr48 (talk) 20:45, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Red-billed Quelea

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Red-billed quelea flocking at waterhole

• ... that the red-billed quelea is the most numerous bird species on earth, with an estimated population of 1½ billion?
  • ALT1:... that the red-billed quelea causes extensive damage to cereal crops and is therefore sometimes called "Africa's feathered locust"?

• Comment: quote from the cited source for the hook: "The red-billed quelea is considered to be the most abundant terrestrial bird on earth, with a peak post-breeding population estimated at 1,500,000,000 (Craig, 2010)"; quote from the cited source for the alternative: "The Red-billed Quelea is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and its post-breeding population has been estimated to be 1.5 billion birds, leading to its nickname "Africa's feathered locust". It is a significant pest of small grain crops throughout sub-Saharan Africa and is therefore a major threat to subsistence farmers and of economic importance to commercial farmers".

Improved to Good Article status by Dwergenpaartje (talk). Self-nominated at 22:39, 30 May 2017 (UTC).

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  Timely; well long enough; just passed GA, so obviously within policy, except they obviously didn't run a plagiarism check since Earwig finds obvious and substantial copy/pasting that needs to be rephrased before the DYK can continue. I hope it gets fixed: the top hook is fascinating. The lengths to which farmers go to combat them (firebombing??!) are also unreal. — LlywelynII 09:02, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
  
  As a side note, I'll just point out that Dwergenpaartje's edits have substantially reduced the amount of plagiarized material in the article. There's just some more cleanup and rephrasing that still needs to be done. — LlywelynII 09:06, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

• G2G. Copyvio has been cleaned up; pic is CC2.0. Minor rephrasing of hook to make it less clinical. Hopefully promoter can see fit to giving this prominent billing. Entries like this are really what DYK is here for: it's the most common bird on Earth but few Americans, Europeans, or Asians will've heard of it since it's not eating our crops. — LlywelynII 23:38, 1 June 2017 (UTC)