Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Water pipit/archive1
The water pipit (Anthus spinoletta) is a small songbird which breeds in the mountains of Southern Europe and Southern Asia eastwards to China. It is a short-distance migrant; many birds move to lower altitudes or wet open lowlands in winter. In breeding plumage it has greyish-brown upperparts, weakly streaked with darker brown, and pale pink-buff underparts fading to whitish on the lower belly. The head is grey with a broad white eyebrow, and the outer tail feathers are white. The winter colours are duller, with more brown. Water pipits construct a cup-like nest on the ground under vegetation or in cliff crevices and lay four to six speckled greyish-white eggs, which hatch in about two weeks with about two more weeks until the chicks fledge. Although pipits occasionally catch insects in flight, they feed mainly on small invertebrates picked off the ground or vegetation, and also on some plant material. The species population is large and stable overall. (Full article...)
Jimfbleak (and this is the last one, I'll repeat my spiel here for anyone watching): thoughts and edits are welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet. This batch finishes up blurbs for FACs promoted in 2017. - Dank (push to talk) 14:22, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
- push to talk The breeding plumage has greyish-brown upperparts... didn't quite read right to me, so a minor tweak, thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:38, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
- Great, thanks. - Dank (push to talk) 15:01, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
- push to talk The breeding plumage has greyish-brown upperparts... didn't quite read right to me, so a minor tweak, thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:38, 11 January 2020 (UTC)