User:MeegsC
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About me
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years. |
This user has been awarded an Imperial Triple Crown. |
This user has written or significantly contributed to 2 featured lists on Wikipedia. |
This user has written or significantly contributed to 6 Featured articles on Wikipedia. |
This user has helped promote 7 good articles on Wikipedia. |
This user has written or expanded 27 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. |
The Wikipedia Library . |
This user is a biologist. |
This user is a birder. |
This user is a history buff. |
This user enjoys writing. |
This user is a Boilermaker. |
This user is a member of WikiProject Birds. |
This user is a participant in WikiProject Fungi. |
This user lives in the United Kingdom. |
This user participated in the 2015 WikiCup. |
This user participated in the 2021 WikiCup. |
This user has been awarded an Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown. |
This user supports the Sustainability Initiative to reduce the foundation's environmental impact. |
This user likes lichens. |
Places I've been
US states I've visited
Contributions
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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 • Piccolia • Pinnated bittern • The Great Man (novel) • Tiny hawk • Urrao antpitta • Yagul
Major contributions to
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Cley Marshes • Pelican •
My uploaded photos (in WikiCommons)
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American Golden-Plover(Pluvialis dominica) eggs and nest
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Copper-rumped Hummingbird(Amazilia tobaci)
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Spectacled Thrush(Turdus nudigenis)
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Perched femaleGreen Honeycreeper(Chlorophanes spiza)
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Perched maleRufous-tailed Jacamar(Galbula ruficauda)
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Perched maleRufous-tailed Jacamar(Galbula ruficauda)
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MaleCoppery-headed Emerald(Elvira cupreiceps)
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Purple-crowned Fairy(Heliothryx barroti)
DYKs
My own articles
- ... that scavengers?
- ... that some species of moulting, rendering them incapable of flight?}
- ... that although the South American bitternis widespread, much about its life history remains little-known, due to its skulking habits?
- ... that despite only being eight inches tall, the neotropics, successfully hunts hummingbirds?
- ... that 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 unpalatable?
- ... that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the pink-headed warbler?
- ... that the intestineto 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 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 ?
- ... that the ?
- ... 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 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 ?
- ... that test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so devastated by the show that producersdeclined 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 crop plants?
- ... that rainy seasonthat lasts nine months?
- ... that an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida's Pinellas Trail?
- ... that jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery?
- ... that Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racingcareer 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 Athenian Meidias Painterare still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
- ... that the Turkish classical music's basic quartet?
- ... that the US Navyand renamed the Francisco Zarco?
- ... that opponents of )?
- ... that the ?
- ... that during his 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 crude oilreserves?
- ... that ?
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