Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Monarcha melanopsis 1 - Brunkerville.jpg

Black-faced Monarch edit

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Original – Black-faced Monarch (Monarcha melanopsis), Brunkerville, New South Wales, Australia

Reason: Good quality image of a generally arboreal species.
Articles in which this image appears: Black-faced monarch
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator – JJ Harrison (talk) 02:34, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps these nice pictures of birds should simply be tweeted.
It's all the rage these daze. – Sca (talk) 13:15, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LOL! Are you referring to birdbrains? --Janke | Talk 16:24, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking aquatically: "Politician, n.: An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared." — Ambrose Bierce.
– Sca (talk) 14:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, Bierce - he also defined "Politics, n.: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." - in 1906! --Janke | Talk 17:11, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And "Projectile, n.: The final arbiter in international disputes." But we digress. – Sca (talk)

Support. MER-C 18:13, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi 22:07, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – weak article, can the article be improved? any online sources with more info? Bammesk (talk) 16:20, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- A couple of experienced bird editors have started to push the article into shape. Josh Milburn (talk) 22:18, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Great. I suppose more details are in the parent or family article, Support. Bammesk (talk) 13:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support; weak solely because when I opened it, my partner said "Has that bird got a big crest?" - perhaps the leaf is regrettable. I'm willing to strike the weak if this is a bird that is particularly shy. Josh Milburn (talk) 19:05, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.1% of all FPs} 19:06, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Monarcha melanopsis 1 - Brunkerville.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]