Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Vanellus tricolor - Gretna.jpg

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Original – Banded Lapwing adult (Vanellus tricolor), Gretna, Tasmania, Australia

Original – Banded Lapwing juvenile (Vanellus tricolor), Gretna, Tasmania, Australia

Reason: This species is much less common, and less aggressive than the other Australian Lapwing species (commonly known as "Plovers"). These image show the important plumage well. I used my car as a movable hide. I'm nominating both as a set (since apparently it makes a difference).
Articles in which this image appears: Banded Lapwing
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 11:53, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support both -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 21:29, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Value in both images. A shame that the article is a stub --Muhammad(talk) 17:11, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support x2 -- Both are of high quality and have good EV. Support giving the article to a DYKer who likes birds. Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:47, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support adult only, Oppose juvenile and set. Weak support on adult as the darker colours especially seem a bit noisy (unless that's the natural appearance of the feathers; if it is I could be swayed to full support). And while I inherently oppose sets, do we really think the juvenile would pass on its own? Thus oppose that regardless. --jjron (talk) 12:58, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I actually like the juvenile shot better for illustrative purposes, whatever the technical aspects of the photo are. Not crazy about the aspect ratio and large head room on the adult shot. (in terms of use in an article's text). The very end of the beak seems a little fuzzy as well. Not meant to put down your work with the car hide and all. Really respect that. And I want to send you into the wild to shoot some sports and celebrity photos. TCO (Reviews needed) 15:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Only 4.5 support. Might be worth re-nominating. Makeemlighter (talk) 22:42, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]