Talk:Invisible rail

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 20:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

This picture must be a joke. It is a picture of a hydrangea, not a bird. Funny joke, but should be fixed. 198.30.43.169 (talk) 20:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Etymology?

Why is it called "invisible"? The article does not explain. It's certainly not invisible. Is it called that because it's flightless, dark-feathered, and presumably not seen frequently? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:58, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Is this an April Fools joke?

• It's a real bird. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:18, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

No, it obviously isn't.—chbarts (talk) 18:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Smallest living flightless bird?

The Inaccessible Island Rail article claims that bird is "the smallest extant flightless bird in the world". While that article has no citation, it does describe a bird that is smaller than the Invisible Rail is described here.

The citation from Schnaitman actually makes the claim only in its introduction, not its main text - could it be a mistake? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.104.36.175 (talk) 17:51, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Review

Couple comments:

• Since File:HabroptilaWallaciiWolf.jpg is a sketch, shouldn't we note the artist and year?
• Are there any photographs, even copyrighted ones, that we could link to as an external link?
• An image of the habitat would be nice.
• swallows small stones - link to Gastrolith?
• Halmahera should be linked on first mention, not second mention
• Any reason why this is known as the invisible rail that can be stated explicitly and cited? I think we can guess, but...
• Otherwise I can't find many nits to pick. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:05, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for that, all done except the name origin. RS sites don't say, and the highly suspect sites that venture an explanation are just making the obvious assumption. I'll keep looking but I'm not optimistic. The images in the EL are those from Bashari and van Balan, but using the OBC page avoids having a ref as an EL too Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:27, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• It would be amazing if Hanom Bashari (the photographer of several of these) would release the images under a proper license... this is a magnificent bird. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• I'll email him, if he says no we are no worse off. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• That's great. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• read this before planning your trip! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:18, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

• Whoa... let's add at least a year of physical training to that wish list (although it looks like Heinrich may be notable enough for an article). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:51, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

And this if you are planning a trip http://www.warbler.phytoconsult.nl/celrap2.htm Shyamal (talk) 14:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

• Well, apparently Gerd Heinrich already exists. Darn, no new article. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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Well, at least you should be able to see it here

Happy April Fool's, if only for literally less than two minutes. ResMar 13:26, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Did anyone get a screenshot? The image has now been deleted at Commons. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 18:38, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: And I was not happy about it. ResMar 18:55, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Also it was much better-done than this effort. ResMar 18:59, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: Hey don't poke fun at my effort. BTW Resident_Mario 's file can be seen (3 copies) on DuckDuckGo Image search for "File:Invisible Bird.svg". --Naytz (talk)03:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

See this :) --Naytz (talk) 03:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Please restore the disambiguous

this is not a joke article --Naytz (talk) 23:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Cluebot is trolling

I thought this was pretty funny: special:diff/654529980/654529982. Something tells me a bot doesn't have the capacity to autonomously pull an April fools prank, so that's a pretty laughable Cluebot fail / false positive. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 12:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

• Erm, what now? :-/ Cluebot! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:09, 2 April 2015 (UTC)