Talk:Whinchat

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Review: October 17, 2015. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Whinchat appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 November 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the whinchat breeds in Europe and western Asia from Ireland and northern Portugal east to the Ob River basin, and from northern Norway south to central Spain, Italy and Greece?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Whinchat/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: FunkMonk (talk · contribs) 22:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'll reivew this. FunkMonk (talk) 22:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This video is of much better quality than the one currently in the article: [1]

Replaced. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"The whinchat is a sort-tailed bird" Short I assume?

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"has blackish face mask" Missing a?

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Its main call is a hue-tac-tac" Maybe add "is described as a"?

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"to a maximum recorded of just over five years" Wild or captive?

Added. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With such a large range, I'd assume some subspecies are recognised or have been proposed?

Apparently not. Added. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:31, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems the supercilium could be mentioned in the intro?

Added. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"The whinchat is a solitary species" Only the intro states this.

Added. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking on this review.Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:13, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, passed! FunkMonk (talk) 15:01, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was fast work, thanks indeed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:01, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wisht as a winnard[edit]

To what does this Cornish phrase refer? the whinchat bird, see the BBC website referenced below. Or the Redwing, see List of Cornish dialect words, or a Peregrine Falcon, as in Birds of Cornwall the North Cornwall paragraph. I suspect it's the whinchat.^[1]BeckenhamBear (talk) 09:05, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Wisht as a winnard, BBC. Accessed 6 November 2016.

[1] Wisht as a winnard, BBC. Accessed 6 November 2016.

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