Template:Did you know nominations/Black-necked grebe
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:47, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
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Black-necked grebe edit
- ... that the black-necked grebe is flightless for two months of the year? Source: "adults moult their regimes in August and September" ([1])
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... that when it moults, the black-necked grebe can more than double its normal weight?Source: "Nevertheless, they continue body molt and concurrently lay on vast fat stores, often more than doubling their arrival weights" ([2])
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- Comment: For the quote, when it doesn't have its remiges, it can't fly. This is common knowledge to most ornithologists (and some of the odd people like me).
Improved to Good Article status by RileyBugz (talk). Self-nominated at 20:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC).
This is a newly promoted GA and is new enough and long enough. The article is neutral and free from copyright iossues, as far as I can see. The original hook is acceptable and the weight gain at time of moult is also interesting, but the ALT1 hook is not well worded. You do not seem to know the difference between "regime" and "remige" and I take serious issue with some of the facts in the article with regard to distribution and migration. I will mention them on the article's talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:36, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
Here is another site where they have confused "remige" and "regime", using the first in their answer and the second in their explanation. Anyway, the Distribution section of the article is better, and ALT0 should be good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:02, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
