Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Great Tit

Great tit
Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2014  at 13:35:32 (UTC)
 * Reason:Quality images of Great Tit
 * Articles in which this image appears:Great Tit
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:Baresi franco & Lviatour


 * Support either or both as nominator –  The Herald 13:35, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original, oppose alt - I think the white balance in the alt is off and it is not as sharp as the original -Ebertakis (talk) 22:30, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment. To me, the bird's head/neck in the original looks a bit odd and atypical. Obviously the bird really did have its head in that attitude, but even so, it doesn't look very represntative to me of the bird's usual appearance. 86.183.29.172 (talk) 03:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about atypical - the original just shows the bird with its crest raised, the alt has it flattened to its head.--Baresi F (talk) 14:05, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I have just checked dozens and dozens of pictures of great tits from Google image search, and I don't see a single one whose head/neck shape relative to body looks like the one here, so I'm sticking to my "atypical" claim. 86.190.50.223 (talk) 18:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Compare this blue tit to this blue tit. It's just to do with the pose. The feathers can be raised by the birds themselves for various reasons, or sometimes they appear raised just because of the wind. I'll leave whether to support or oppose up to you, but it's not like the photo is of a freak bird or anything. J Milburn (talk) 09:25, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It's an interesting question as to whether, for a given species, there is such a thing as a 'typical' or best encyclopaedic pose that can be captured in vivo. Many good field guides use rather upright, stiff-looking drawings for small passerines - in fact, all of the tits in my Helm's guide show the birds with head proud from the body. Check out this 300-odd year old Great tit illustration - it's got its head/neck in a similar position to the original nom here, although its crest is frustratingly down :-) --Baresi F (talk) 14:24, 6 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support original Looks alright to me --Muhammad (talk) 00:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original - Looks fine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:57, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support original - there's some blur in the art. And good work not making any puns, guys. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:07, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Craig Ferguson would have had a party ;) --Muhammad (talk) 03:34, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:36, 13 November 2014 (UTC)