Talk:Gape

A fact from Gape appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the gape of nestlings of several passerine bird species have been shown to be conspicuous in the ultraviolet spectrum?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/July.

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File:House sparrow portrait.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:House sparrow portrait.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 26, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-06-26. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng {chat} 20:30, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

A juvenile House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) has a pink bill and nestling gape flanges on both sides of its face where the upper part of the beak is connected to the lower part. In juvenile altricial birds, brightly colored gapes help the parents determine how to distribute food among their chicks.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

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