Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Butorides virescens stalking.jpg

File:Butorides virescens stalking.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
•  Info All by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - What a great moment to capture! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:11, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support The stick in front bothers me a little, but the bird is sharp and it's in action, so that makes up for the stick just a bit. lNeverCry 03:56, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:07, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Moderate support per INC. Daniel Case (talk) 04:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:33, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose The definition is not so good, it is very grainy, and the stick is very unfortunate. The real-life colours are brighter than shown here - this image would be a much better candidate for FP. @INeverCry: The bird is not 'in action'. The heron waits motionless, it is not stalking as the title suggests. Charles (talk) 09:27, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks for clarifying the birds behavior do us non-bird-savvy. Although, I would agree that this bird is "in action" much the same way as a sniper is, waiting on a hill, drawing a bead on his target, even if he is motionless. --cart-Talk 11:57, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

•  Support The definition is superior to the en:wp FP Charles links (one needs to downsample 70% to get the birds to be the same size based on beak length, and the other image has had too much NR which has considerably reduced the detail especially in the head). I think the fact that the bird is hunting compensates for the stick. -- Colin (talk) 11:47, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support For me the intensity of the pic transcends the mere 'identify species' part. This is like a Hiroshige wood print capturing a moment (or several) before the strike. --cart-Talk 11:57, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Question - Am I the only one who thinks that stick sticking up is fine? I think it makes the form more interesting (for example, by complementing the branch that is slanting the other way), and it doesn't block view of the bird in any important way. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek: Yeah, I'd say you're alone with the crickets on that one... lNeverCry 06:13, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

• >chirp-chirp< --cart-The Cricket 11:48, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 09:31, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds