Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Poecile Montanus

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2014 at 11:26:43 (UTC)

Original – Willow Tit, Poecile montanus

Reason: High resolution pic of Poecile montanus with clean background. EV because it is a good ID pic of a species that is suffering dramatic population decline across Europe, and esp in Britain, where it is a RSPB 'red status' bird. Shows features that may differentiate it from similar, but more common, Marsh Tit: sooty cap, untidy bib, pale wing panel, larger white cheek, lack of pale patch on upper mandible. Definitive ID obtained from call.
Articles in which this image appears: Willow Tit
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Baresi franco

Support as nominator --Baresi franco (talk) 11:26, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely. Though I'm going to have the song stuck in my head all day now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very nice. —Bruce1ee^talk 12:51, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — Nice, but one wonders why the background is orange-ish. Autumnal shot? Sca (talk) 14:41, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. No, not Autumn - it was taken very recently. The background is brick - Accrington Brick, in fact, which is famously orangey-red.--Baresi franco (talk) 15:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Just as another example - here is the same brick background in a different shot, but this time in bright sunlight, which renders it almost peach-y (what do I know, I'm colour-blind anyway…)--Baresi franco (talk) 15:47, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Some space was added on the left edge that manipulated the branch. The bird was also selectively sharpened, which, depending on taste, could be deemed excessive. Still within the boundaries allowed by the criteria, I guess --Ebertakis (talk) 22:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for the feedback. I think you're right - I've eased off the sharpening a touch --Baresi franco (talk) 13:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Goldfinch

Weak support for the Willow tilt, Support for the European Goldfinch (why wasn't it nominated?).--Theparties (talk) 06:45, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support The bit of room added on the left made the difference to me. Nice work. Saffron Blaze (talk) 02:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Poecile montanus kleinschmidti.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:33, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]