Template:Did you know nominations/Yellow-browed sparrow

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The result was: promoted by HalfGig talk 13:46, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Yellow-browed sparrow edit

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... that the yellow-browed sparrow has spread from its former habitats along the Amazon River into grasslands, towns and roadsides throughout much of the Amazon basin?

Reviewed: Chester Burn viaduct

5x expanded by MeegsC (talk). Self nominated at 20:20, 6 January 2015 (UTC).

This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The image is appropriately licensed, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. The hook fact is cited to a Google book but is not actually borne out by the source. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:31, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: The source says Common and widespread in Amazonia and This familiar bird occurs around towns, along roads and in agricultural areas; its original habitat was apparently along rivers and on islands. Would it be better if I used Amazon basin rather than Amazon River?

Mea culpa :( I did not read the source well enough and I now see that it does bear out the statement in the article and the hook. So this nomination is ready to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)