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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 11:39, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Red-backed buttonquail, Yellow-legged buttonquail

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Yellow-legged buttonquails, female on left

... that female red-backed buttonquails and yellow-legged buttonquails leave their mates to incubate their eggs and raise their young, and start breeding afresh with different males?

Reviewed: Nalesoni Laifone and ʻUelingatoni Ngū

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 10:40, 4 July 2016 (UTC).

Interesting birds, good expansions on few but solid sources. I misread the hook, and others will perhaps do the same. Please think about rewording, - perhaps "leave it to the mates", --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm... How about

ALT1 ... that male red-backed buttonquails and yellow-legged buttonquails incubate the eggs and raise the young, while the female starts breeding afresh with a different male? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:59, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Better, but plural for the males and singular for the females doesn't match well, also "afresh" makes little sense if there was no first breeding (mentioned). I also liked the females as the protagonists ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

ALT2 ... that female red-backed buttonquails and yellow-legged buttonquails rely on their mates to incubate the eggs and raise the young, and start breeding afresh with different males? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:18, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

perfect, thank you! Image licensed, and would be a good illustration, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:39, 6 July 2016 (UTC)