Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Red-billed quelea/archive1
The red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea) is a migratory, sparrow-like bird of the weaver family, Ploceidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighing 15–26 g (0.53–0.92 oz), it has light underparts, striped brown upper parts, yellow-edged flight feathers and a reddish bill. Breeding females attain a yellowish bill, and breeding males have a black (or rarely white) facial mask, surrounded by a purplish, pinkish, rusty or yellowish wash on the head and breast. The species avoids forests, deserts and high altitudes. Breeding in very large colonies, it constructs oval-roofed nests woven from strips of grass hanging from thorny branches, sugar cane or reeds. It feeds primarily on seeds of annual grasses, but also causes extensive damage to cereal crops. It is regarded as the most numerous undomesticated bird on earth, peaking at an estimated 1.5 billion individuals, with flocks sometimes numbering in the millions. (Full article...)
Dwergenpaartje and Casliber (and anyone else interested): thoughts and edits are welcome. This batch is the last of the blurbs for FACs promoted in 2017. - Dank (push to talk) 21:50, 10 January 2020 (UTC)