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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Winchell's kingfisher

 * ... that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher, found in the Philippines, after an American geologist? Source: "This species is named, by Dr. Steere's request, after his friend and old tutor, Mr. Winchell." Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. This source confirms that "Mr. Winchell" is the geologist Newton Horace Winchell.
 * ALT1: ... that a British ornithologist named Winchell's kingfisher, found in the Philippines, after an American geologist, at the request of an American ornithologist?
 * ALT2: ... that Winchell's kingfisher has been recorded nesting in a termite nest? Source: "One nest was found in an old arboreal termite nest" IUCN Red List
 * Reviewed: Telfair Hodgson

5x expanded by Gulumeemee (talk). Self-nominated at 03:08, 23 June 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Interesting, good expansion, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. What do you think of adding about the Philippines? I'll watch. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:20, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've added it. Gulumeemee (talk) 09:13, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:32, 29 June 2018 (UTC)