Talk:Perijá tapaculo

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Date	Process	Result
August 5, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
September 14, 2015	Peer review	Reviewed
October 22, 2015	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 2, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that specimens of the Perijá tapaculo (pictured) were classified as being from four different bird species before being identified as a separate species?
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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is actually a real bird discovered in 2015. The French and Spanish articles are well completed. Poppy (talk) 16:00, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I know, I've declined the speedy and added some references. Technically you shouldn't have removed the speedy deletion tag yourself, but it was clearly inappropiate in this instance. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:04, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not much new has been published about this bird since it was named, but perhaps a bit from this paper could be added:[1] FunkMonk (talk) 16:49, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

endemic

Great to see additional work on this article! Just a small comment on the categories: I think no species can be endemic in two countries simultanously, can it? Its endemic to the mountain range, or to South America as a whole, but cannot be an endemic bird of Colombia and an endemic bird of Venezuela at the same time. Having both categories might be misleading. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 16:30, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've replaced the categories. Thanks for spotting that. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 16:37, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Query

I was just curious about the way the bird is held in the main image. I thought that birds should be captured naturally. How does it end up in this position where the legs are held? Shouldn't the image description mention something about this? (also asked on commons:File talk:Scytalopus perijanus (16786170472).jpg) DTM (talk) 05:10, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DTM, it's called the "photographer's hold", and it's a safe way to contain a bird. When birds are being held "in the hand" for photographs (done sometimes while bird ringing or for the description of new species, as in this case), their legs are held this way to avoid breaking them. Birds have such delicate bones that if they twisted (as they might if their legs weren't being held), they could easily break their legs. MeegsC (talk) 11:11, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]