Talk:Fulvous whistling duck

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The Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a whistling duck which breeds across the world's tropical regions. It is a common species, growing to about 48–53 cm (19–21 in) long. Its habitat is still freshwater lakes, paddy fields or reservoirs with plentiful vegetation, where it feeds mainly at night on seeds and other parts of plants.Photo: Branko Kannenberg

Comments from Crisco

Hi Jim, sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this... had a bout of the flu.

• Dendrocygna is derived from the Ancient Greek dendron ... - Except you just mentioned the initial name as Anas bicolor, and have not discussed dendrocygna yet
• maximum known age is 6·5 years - ? Do you mean 6.5 or 5 to 6?

Very ready for GAC, although I am not familiar enough with the topic area to talk about FAC. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Done Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

In Popular Culture section suggestion

This specific species is mentioned somewhat at length in an episode of Stargate SG-1. Not sure if this is significant enough. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StargateSG1S10E5Uninvited — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.218.11 (talk) 17:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Requested moves

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was moved. All but this one have already been moved by Materialscientist. --BDD (talk) 19:41, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• Fulvous Whistling Duck → Fulvous whistling duck
• Bean Goose → Bean goose
• Pink-footed Goose → Pink-footed goose
• Greater White-fronted Goose → Greater white-fronted goose
• Lesser White-fronted Goose → Lesser white-fronted goose
• Emperor Goose → Emperor goose
• Ross's Goose → Ross's goose
• Cackling Goose → Cackling goose
• Canada Goose → Canada goose
• Brant Goose → Brant goose

– Invert the redirections as the consensus and guidelines recommend not to capitalise the common (vernacular) names of species. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Bird common name decapitalisation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms. Coreyemotela (talk) 13:27, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

• Support Several of these have already been done with no difficultly.--67.70.140.89 (talk) 19:55, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Inclusion of Category: Breeds of Ducks reverted

I noted that this page did not have the category Breeds of Ducks that is present on other Duck pages and added it. I note that the category was removed. Might there be a reason why? Should that category be removed from the other Duck pages? Tigey (talk) 09:10, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I reverted your edit because Category:Duck_breeds is for domesticated and human-selected "breeds" - this is a wild species that is not kept by poulterers/duck-breeders/duck-farmers. Shyamal (talk) 09:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)