Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Black-breasted buttonquail

Black-breasted buttonquail

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 30, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:01, 15 December 2022 (UTC)



The black-breasted buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster) is a buttonquail endemic to eastern Australia. It is a plump quail-shaped bird with predominantly marbled black, rufous and pale brown plumage, marked prominently with white spots and stripes, and white eyes. Like other buttonquails, it is unrelated to the true quails, and the female is larger and more boldly coloured than the male, with a distinctive black head and neck sprinkled with fine white markings. The usual sex roles are reversed, as the female mates with multiple male partners and leaves them to incubate the eggs. Usually found in rainforest and in forages with large areas of thick leaf litter, most of its original habitat has been cleared, and the remaining populations are fragmented. Rated as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered Species, the black-breasted buttonquail is also listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. A three-year conservation project has been under way since 2021.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Mandrill, which is as of this writing, the current TFA (14 December 2022), but the Réunion swamphen is scheduled for 20 December 2022. However, the most recent bird article that has already appeared as TFA was the Pale crag martin, on 31 October 2022.
 * Main editors: was the FAC nominator, creator and main editor of this page.
 * Promoted: 18 May 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: Article was previously featured on the DYK page 14 years ago, but was only promoted to FA status last May. I think it is time for this to become a TFA entry for next year.
 * Support as nominator. Vida0007 (talk) 11:46, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:57, 14 December 2022 (UTC)