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

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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Neutral Technically quite weak, but still a stunning and very nice picture with good composition. —αἰτίας •discussion• 00:42, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
- Hmm, really? What are the indications that this is a fight? howcheng {chat} 15:44, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, for a start they are kicking each other. And the only bird that mates face to face is the Stitchbird. Coots mate [1] like other birds, by mounting the back. This page contrasts the different behaviours [2]. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn: Image does not show what it purports to.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