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Requested move 22 October 2018

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 17:26, 29 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Wattlebird → Anthochaera – From the article:

"Of the five species in the genus only the yellow wattlebird and the red wattlebird have wattles"
"Some other birds also have wattles, although they are not known by the term "wattlebird". Examples include the turkey; some vultures …"
"The entire Callaeidae family of New Zealand, … are also known as wattlebirds, but are unrelated to this genus."

The article asserts that wattlebird is the name of this genus, and proceeds to stumble over itself to explain that that is not the case. The IOC [splintered from the authority of the IOU] that is used at wikipedia bird articles to constantly revise their own questionable determinations on names made english has not even attempted to assign another name to the universally accepted name of this genus, Anthochaera, or to any other taxon higher than species.

As trivial evidence this title is more than unhelpful, I just removed an external link: http://terranature.org/wattlebirds.htm TerraNature pages on New Zealand wattlebirds cygnis insignis 07:54, 22 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Support move. Use of English names for families and genera of birds on Wikipedia is often confusing. This is particular so when species are moved from one genus to another based of molecular phylogenetic studies. In Anthochaera there is now a "honeyeater". - Aa77zz (talk) 09:03, 22 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

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