Template:Did you know nominations/Black-billed magpie

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The result was: promoted by DirtyHarry991 talk 10:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Black-billed magpie

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Black-billed magpie eating ticks off the back of a cow

... that black-billed magpies (pictured) are known to eat ticks off of deer and other large mammals? Source: Black-billed Magpies (Pica pica) were observed pecking on fallow deer (Dama dama) on 56 occasions. Ectoparasite removal was apparently the reason for this interaction. Birds preferred deer that were sitting to deer that were standing,and interacted preferentially with adult males over females or calves. Deer did not solicit cleaning and, on a few occasions, were observed to shake off birds. This interaction may be beneficial for magpies, because ectoparasites are a predictable source of food, but its effect on fallow deer remains to be investigated. https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/100/1/177/5126669?login=false
- Reviewed: None - this is my first submission

Improved to Good Article status by Grungaloo (talk). Self-nominated at 23:43, 16 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Black-billed magpie; 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: None required.

Overall: Interesting article! Good hook, recent GA, and good sources (AGFing offline ones). Earwig is catching a site that's a wikimirror, so that's not copyvio. There is some close paraphrasing that needs to be fixed though, I'll add those below. The quote used as a ref for the hook doesn't technically say ticks, but I'll AGF if it's in the offline source(s). The only other thing is I'm not sure the magpie is easy to see in the picture, can we use a cropped version that includes some cow but makes it easier to see the bird? BuySomeApples (talk) 03:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

There's close phrasing with this, this, and this. These should be easy fixes though. BuySomeApples (talk) 03:36, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the review BuySomeApples! I think I've fixed the issues.

Close Paraphrasing - I've fixed the paraphrasing in the 2nd and 3rd link you gave. I think the 1st actually copied from Wikipedia. Some of the text that it's flagging was added to the article in 2014, and looking at this diff from 2 months before the article was published (10 Nov 2016) shows a 82% violation. Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you for fixing that @Grungaloo: and good sleuthing on the mirror! It does seem like it copied Wikipedia rather than the other way around. BuySomeApples (talk) 08:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Source - I changed the source used to one that's available online, feel free to verify! The important bit is on page 128 - it talks about magpies eating ticks off of moose.

Image - I tried cropping it - I'll leave it up to you if you think it works!

grungaloo (talk) 02:27, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

The new source and cropped image both work for me (although the picture is ultimately up to the promoter), so I think this nom is ready. BuySomeApples (talk) 08:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)