Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Charadrius ruficapillus Breeding Plumage.jpg

Red-capped Plover (breeding plumage)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Jan 2011 at 03:39:07 (UTC)

Original - Red-capped Plover (Charadrius ruficapillus), Breeding Plumage, Ralph's Bay, Tasmania, Australia

Reason: I did nominate and successfully pass another image of this species, but the breeding plumage is different. A bird field guide would have images of both, so should we. I'd suggest showing them together if it comes to POTD.
Articles in which this image appears: Red-capped Plover
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 03:39, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. So that is why it's a red-capped plover. However, there needs to be more mention of this difference in plumage in the article, otherwise the EV would be really bad. Purpy Pupple (talk) 03:47, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support, agree with your reasoning for two pictures, and agree with treating this as something of a set. However, I also agree with PP that an explanation of the differences in plumages would be a helpful addition to the article. J Milburn (talk) 10:26, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Added something, though I may change the reference to a book when I get home. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 15:14, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wonderful shot, plenty of EV. NauticaShad es 15:49, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --KFP (contact | edits) 13:27, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support with comment this species exhibits sexual dimorphism in its plumage, this (good) illustration is of a breeding male. The books I have make telling the non-breeding male and the breeding (or non-breeding) female hard to separate, so I am not sure what the other FP File:Charadrius ruficapillus.jpg represents (given the time of year I'd speculate breeding female). I should be able to find out in the library but if not I'll throw it open to WP:BIRD (Unless JJ is certain its a non-breeding). Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:10, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Suggest you throw it. Given a similar time of year it might be a breeding female. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:10, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Have done. Only one response, a tentative "breeding female", which is what I was thinking too. It is amazing how useless the books are though. Sabine's Sunbird talk 19:44, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Yeah, I just went on my field guide, but there wasn't much detail in it at all. JJ Harrison (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Charadrius ruficapillus Breeding Plumage.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:24, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]