Template:Did you know nominations/White-tailed jay

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 20:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

White-tailed jay

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A white-tailed jay

... that the white-tailed jay (pictured) found in Ecuador and Peru was once thought to have been brought to Mexico by pre-Columbian trade? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2387782
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kent Melton

Improved to Good Article status by Grungaloo (talk). Self-nominated at 23:09, 12 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/White-tailed jay; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article recently promoted to GA. Passes earwig, no close paraphrasing was found, and the hook is interesting, cited inline, and verified. Image appropriately licensed. User has less than 20 DYK nominations, and not required 2x QPQ per nomination due to emergency backlog mode. GTG. Pseud 14 (talk) 18:26, 14 March 2024 (UTC)