Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Charadrius peronii - Laem Pak Bia.jpg

Malaysian Plover
Voting period ends on 1 Feb 2013 at 04:33:21 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality photo of a small bird found in an environment with no natural cover. Significantly more numerous than the White-faced below. Shows all plumage and is useful for identification. Compliments the photo of the female in the article well.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Malaysian Plover
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:JJ Harrison


 * Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 04:33, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support JJ Harrison should work for the National Geographic. Automatic Strikeout  ( T  •  C ) 14:47, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support I'd prefer if the bird wasn't tagged, but the picture itself is great. --99of9 (talk) 12:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support — ΛΧΣ  21  01:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Though I wish the image was a little larger and more detailed. Also, the tags are a slight minus, at least for use in articles that don't discuss tagging. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. I added some information to the article about a large-scale color-banding study. It appears there have been several, and indeed this individual looks to be wearing different kinds of bands, as if from different studies, but it's quite plausible that one of its bands stems from the study I cited (or another of the studies listed under References in the article). It appears this species is being extensively studied because of concerns about tourism impact on its habitat, and in that sense the color-bands add to EV. Chick Bowen 22:21, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 04:41, 1 February 2013 (UTC)