Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Royal Spoonbill mouth open.jpg

Original - Royal Spoonbill with its bill open

Reason: High quality with good EV - caught this bird with its bill wide open giving an excellent view of its distinctive bill.
Articles this image appears in: Royal Spoonbill, Spoonbill
Creator: Fir0002

Support as nominator --Fir0002 09:53, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
comment Current Featured picture of the specie. --Muhammad(talk) 13:13, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good composition and high EV in good quality.--Caspian blue 19:34, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exceptionally clear depiction of the species's most distinctive feature. Durova²⁷³ 00:49, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - As Muhammad observes this isn't the only good image of this species. The plumage is different, so I'll go check to see if this is a female or just a non-breeding adult (the other has a crest/ is breeding). Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Although it's been a tradition to limit ourselves to a single featured picture for a species, have doubts about whether that's really the best way to go. There may be reason to promote more than one image where there are purposeful encyclopedic differences between two images, such as male and female birds of a sexually dimorphic species (see house sparrow above) or here, where a distinctive species trait is highlighted in one photograph while other features are highlighted in another. Durova²⁷³ 03:02, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I certainly don't think it is the right way to go. You mention sexual differences there are also subspecies differences, differences based on season (this is clearly a non-breeding bird, but I need to 100% confrm and my books are in boxes till monday) and differences based on age. Throw in images that potentially show behaviour or as you mention highlight different aspects of the bird and I agree there is an obvious case for a case by case approach to this. Sabine's Sunbird talk 08:54, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Seems a bit dark, but then black on white is a bastard. Noodle snacks (talk) 12:40, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agree with NS that it seems a little dark. But it's otherwise very good quality with strong EV. Makeemlighter (talk) 19:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very strong EV. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 01:28, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Royal Spoonbill mouth open.jpg Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]