Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird


A male Ruby-throated hummingbird. Subject matches the article's description of the species. High resolution displays remarkable plumage detail, particularly around its namesake feathers.

Slight subject blur is acknowledged. However, given the difficulty of photographing this notoriously small and speedy bird, the blur may be excused under the exception rule of the Featured Picture Criteria.


 * Nominate and support. - –ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 02:10, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, I understand the difficulty, but there's a lot of blur from camera noise, not just from a lack of focus, especially on the back. We can get a clearer picture. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 06:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Difficult perhaps, but the ruby-throated is common enough to have another try without blur. &mdash; Vildricianus 15:25, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment What Blur?Nnfolz 07:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose The blur isn't so obvious in this one, but it's still not as good as some of the other already featured bird pix. Take a stroll through Mdf's gallery for starters... --Fir0002 12:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - it's really not sharp at all (probably taken from too far away?), and it's just not a great shot. The angle of the bird, the plastic ledge it's sitting on, the mediocre lighting. Have a look at some of the existing bird featured pictures (such as Image:Rooster04 adjusted.jpg and Image:Sitta-carolinensis-001 edit.jpg. Stevage 07:57, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The real problem with this picture is that it is not a Ruby-throated Hummingbird at all. It's a Broad-tailed Hummingbird. CowboyinBRLA — Preceding undated comment added 16:40, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

THIS IS A BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.187.45.82 (talk) 21:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 07:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)