Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:American Coots mating.jpg

Cloacal Kiss

 * Reason:High degree of difficulty (birds only do this maneuver for a few seconds) with good white balance, sharpness, and focus in exactly the right spot, with high encyclopedic value.
 * Articles this image appears in:Cloaca
 * Creator:User:Kevinlcole


 * Support as nominator --  howcheng  {chat} 16:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose ISO 400 in really bright light? Personally it ruins it for me. The sharpness is just not there. Victorrocha (talk) 17:56, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Apparently, ISO 400 wasn't enough to stop action, most parts I find interesting aren't in focus, or are motion blurred. Despite the high resolution mitigating reason, I find this picture misses details and has too much noise. -- Blieusong (talk) 21:16, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Neutral Technically quite weak, but still a stunning and very nice picture with good composition. —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 00:42, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'm afraid that those coots ain't loving, they're hating. That is a fight, not breeding. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  23:08, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmm, really? What are the indications that this is a fight?  howcheng  {chat} 15:44, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, for a start they are kicking each other. And the only bird that mates face to face is the Stitchbird. Coots mate like other birds, by mounting the back. This page contrasts the different behaviours . Sabine's Sunbird   talk  21:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Withdrawn: Image does not show what it purports to.  howcheng  {chat} 02:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)