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Amazonotrema • Ammodytes americanus • Baflavia • Bird nest • Blue corporal • Bouvetiella • Caloplaca maculata • Casque (anatomy) • Diploicia canescens • Ellychnia • Felipes • Flight feather • Haematomma ochroleucum • Haliastur • In the Bleak Midwinter (novel) • Jasonhuria • Llewella Gideon • Northern lampfish • Outline of lichens  • Physcia caesia Symbol_support_vote.svg • Piccolia • Pinnated bittern • The Great Man (novel) • Tiny hawk • Urrao antpitta • Yagul

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Beak • Black catbird Symbol_support_vote.svg • Black-chinned sparrow Symbol_support_vote.svg • Black-cowled oriole Symbol_support_vote.svg • Black-legged seriema • Black-sided flowerpecker • Bonaparte's gull • British jump racing Champion Jockey • Chimney swift • Down feather • Ergaticus • Fecal sac • Fernandina's flicker • Galapagos mockingbird • Golden-crowned sparrow • Green ibis • Hooded visorbearer • Large cactus finch • Lichen growth forms Symbol_support_vote.svg • List of birds of Madagascar • List of endemic birds of Borneo • List of endemic birds of Taiwan • Mountain blackeye Symbol_support_vote.svg • Mountain trogon • Parmelia sulcata •  Pink-headed warbler • Preening  • Red-throated loon  • Red warbler  • Scarlet-breasted fruiteater • Small ground finch • Three-toed jacamar • Trinidad euphonia Symbol_support_vote.svg • Vegetarian finch • Yellow-browed sparrow • Whistling kite • Whitehead's trogon

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My own articles

 * ... that whistling kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
 * ... that some species of waterfowl lose all their flight feathers (pictured) at once while moulting, rendering them incapable of flight?}
 * ... that although the South American bittern is widespread, much about its life history remains little-known, due to its skulking habits?
 * ... that despite only being eight inches tall, the tiny hawk, a raptor found throughout much of the central neotropics, successfully hunts hummingbirds?
 * ... that bird nests range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some Dusky Scrubfowl?
 * ... that Fernandina's flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?
 * ... that the feathers of the red warbler contain alkaloids, which make the birds unpalatable?
 * ... that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the pink-headed warbler?
 * ... that the vegetarian finch has a disproportionately large gizzard and a long intestine to help it digest the leaves and buds which it regularly eats?''
 * ... that the golden-crowned sparrow is an important destroyer of weed seeds on the Pacific coast of North America?''
 * ... 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?''
 * ... that the mountain trogon either excavates its own cavity nest by chewing into rotting wood or uses a pre-existing hole?
 * ... that the fasciated tiger heron is named for the black and buff stripes on its neck and back?
 * ... that the rufescent tiger heron is crepuscular—that is, it hunts primarily at dusk and dawn?
 * ... that the black-cowled oriole hangs its woven nest under a large Heliconia, palm, or banana leaf?
 * ... that the Trinidad euphonia lacks the muscular gizzard that most birds have as part of their digestive tract?
 * ... that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo, the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
 * ... that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens?
 * ... that the song of the black-chinned sparrow is said to resemble the sound of a dropped ping-pong ball?
 * ... that stones have been found in the stomachs of some Whitehead's trogons?
 * ... that the casques of some large hornbill species can take up to six years to reach their full size?
 * ... that the Toba people use poultices made from the manure of the black-legged seriema to treat boils and abscesses?
 * ... that the hooded visorbearer builds its nest out of cactus spines?
 * ... that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures, which resemble a cat's paw?
 * ... that the yellow bloodstain lichen is not always yellow?
 * ... that while some lichen species in the genus Piccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
 * ... that while most lichens that grow on plants live on the surface, the sole species in Amazonotrema grows partially among the cells of the tree bark on which it lives?

Articles I've successfully nominated

 * ... that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?


 * ... that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?


 * ... that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?


 * ... that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?


 * ... that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?


 * ... that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?


 * ... that British rifleman William Green's memoir is one of the few accounts by an enlisted man of life in the Duke of Wellington's army, and as such, has provided source material for many historians?


 * ... that reindeer hunting provides an important staple food for many households in Greenland?


 * ... that poet Anna Williams's works include the whimsically titled On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon?


 * ... that the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses?


 * ... that children in a test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so devastated by the show that producers declined to air it?


 * ... that more than half of the 214 bird species found on Barbados are considered "accidental"—that is, they are found there only because they strayed off-course?
 * ... that Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"?


 * ... that heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance?


 * ... that Clemente Micara was the Vatican’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia?


 * ... that Rotylenchulus reniformis, a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants?


 * ... that Cameroon's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?


 * ... that an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida's Pinellas Trail?


 * ... that Bertie Smalls, considered by many as Britain's first supergrass, avoided jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery?


 * ... that American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?
 * ... that John Vesey, a 16th-century bishop of Exeter, had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
 * ... that at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
 * ... that the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music's basic quartet?
 * ... that the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco?
 * ... that opponents of Cameroon's first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, danced to show their displeasure (Cameroonian dancers pictured)?
 * ... that the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia) was built to be NATO-compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship?
 * ... that during his research into women's olfactory selection of potential mates, Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind conducted what has become known as the "Sweaty T-shirt Study"?
 * ... that the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England?
 * ... that Libya's Sirte Basin&mdash;which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level&mdash;contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
 * ... that Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives?