Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Northern pintail - male

Northern pintail
Voting period ends on 9 Feb 2021  at 19:23:39 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality image of an adult male, FP on Commons
 * Articles in which this image appears:Northern pintail
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:Frank Schulenburg


 * Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 19:23, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. MER-C 20:16, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. ScienceFan66 (talk) 17:13, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. --Janke | Talk 19:19, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have no concerns about image quality but it's used in its article in the middle of what is effectively a large image gallery, rather than being the lead image or being called out in the text as illustrating an important aspect of the subject. Is there enough EV? —David Eppstein (talk) 20:33, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The physical attributes of the male are in the description section, near the image on my display (black striped feathers, brown head, white-striped neck, black tail, blue bill, white breast, yellow vent). Ref 12 (at the end of the paragraph) describes the forward swimming posture, so I added a sentence on that. About lead position or placement: being a lead image isn't a requirement, or always best or possible (juvenile, breeding, etc). Repositioning images in established articles can be controversial. This is a featured article, so I think some thought has gone into the depictions and article watchers would take care of repositioning and improvements if/when necessaey. On a sidenote, I think this image meets the "eye-catching" part of the instructions on top of this page, which IMO is a bonus. Bammesk (talk) 02:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Support OK to have the pair as the lead image. Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:33, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support --  Gerald WL  10:30, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 00:01, 10 February 2021 (UTC)