Talk:Great blue turaco

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Did you know... that according to Mbuti tradition, eating a great blue turaco (living example pictured) while pregnant may result in a difficult delivery or birth deformity?

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I am suspicious of this...

Right, this material has been in since 2008, but I can find zero mentions online apart from material that has come from WP....weird Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:13, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

removed it now anyway Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:29, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 15:46, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Great blue turaco

... that in Mbuti tradition, eating a great blue turaco (pictured) while pregnant may result in a difficult delivery or birth deformity? Source

Reviewed: <Template:Did you know nominations/Last Train to San Fernando

5x expanded by Casliber (talk). Self-nominated at 12:33, 14 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Casliber, review follows: 5x expanded from 14 July; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I don't have access to tall the sources but found no issues with overly close paraphrasing form the ones I checked; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited; image is good at this scale and appropriately licensed; a QPQ has been carried out. Looks fine to me - Dumelow (talk) 14:49, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Casliber, I changed "in" to "according to" in your hook. Please let me know if that's not okay! MeegsC (talk) 15:46, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! This is to let editors know that File:017 Great_blue_turaco_at_Kibale_forest_National_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for May 3, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-05-03. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! — Amakuru (talk) 13:35, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata) is a bird species in the turaco family, Musophagidae, which is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest. It has a typical length of around 75 cm (30 in) with a mass of around 1 kg (2 lb). The adult great blue turaco has predominantly gray-blue upperparts with an upright blue-black crest. Its bill is yellow and the two sexes have similar plumage. This great blue turaco was photographed in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

Photograph credit: Giles Laurent

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