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Passenger Pigeon coming up under $Problem_bird_names #86

Closed pwinner1 closed 7 years ago

pwinner1 commented 7 years ago

using qa_qc()

$Problem_bird_names Common_Name Scientific_Name Family 1 Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius Columbidae

I've checked capitalization, random spaces after names, validity in taxonomic references, and can't seem to find the problem with the name, except that the species is extinct. Could that be the problem?

pwinner1 commented 7 years ago

I am no longer having this issue after retyping the names in a new document. I think the problem was a result of some sort of character or something inserted such that "Passenger Pigeon" wasn't read properly. I think this is similar to the problem we had with "Syzygium cumini" where it was verified once in the database, but a later entry was unable to be verified, even though they appeared to be the same exact value.