Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Trupial (Icterus icterus).jpg

File:Troupial (Icterus icterus).jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
•  Info Venezuelan troupial (Icterus icterus) eyeing the pulpy red fruit of a Carnegie gigantic. Created, uploaded, nominated by Atsme -- 22:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Atsme 📞 22:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
• Mild  Oppose - I like the composition, and the bird is beautiful. However, the standard for FPs of birds is very high, and this one is neither as sharp nor as detailed as others we've been approving lately. If this nomination fails to get enough votes, perhaps this could be a Valued Image. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:39, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support However, Bonaire is not Venezuela. Next time I want to see a picture in Venezuela actually. IMHO this composition is not beautiful like others, however, the bird is on focus and the fact that this bird is the national bird of my country has a big weight --The Photographer (talk) 00:18, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jiel (talk) 23:25, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 20:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 20:42, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nice composition, but the bird is not quite sharp enough. Charles (talk) 21:26, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

• "Not quite sharp enough" as compared to the needles of the cactus? 😝 I probably should have explained the circumstances in more detail, and will try to remember to do that in the future. I was shooting from atop a hill equivalent in height to a 2nd story window, doing my best to avoid all the scrubby thorns and cactus needles in order to capture the bird maneuvering multitudes of very sharp needles atop a tall 30' +/- cactus "tree" so it could eat the pulp of the cactus fruit which was also covered in very sharp needles. I thought it was an amazing feat for any bird to accomplish. I've seen the less agile Caribbean mocking birds impale themselves trying to land on cactus like that (some do manage without incident) and I also watched a bird get poked in the eye with a cactus needle while trying to eat the pulp. Wish I could've captured that shot!! I'm not trying to needle you, but to my knowledge, images like this one are not an everyday occurrence. Wish I could've gotten closer, but if I had put a 30 ft. ladder on that cactus, the bird would've flown off, the cactus needles would've found their way around the rungs of the ladder, and I would've looked like a bloody red pin cushion which definitely would have been a FPC with lots of "wow" factor. 😳 Atsme 📞 21:33, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it's a fun photo, but most of the bird is really quite out of focus and that's an issue for FP. Charles (talk) 22:09, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

I disagree that there's a focus issue, but thanks for your input. Atsme 📞 22:32, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

•  Support -- Thennicke (talk) 10:37, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
•  Weak support I'm OK with the sharpness as is, although I would wish for a bigger image cropped a little more tightly. But I suspect you were working around the limitations you faced. Daniel Case (talk) 05:30, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 06:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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