Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Bald eagle head

Bald Eagle at Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur Park, North Devon, England.

Reason: Better image available: File:Haliaeetus leucocephalus LC0195 edit 1.jpg
Articles this image appears in: Bird of prey, Accipitridae, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
Previous nomination/s: Original nomination from 2004
Nominator: Samwb123^T-C-@

This is the better image available. This picture is of a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) on a bird show on the castle Augustusburg, Germany.

Alt2: Different pose: featured on spanish Wiki.

Delist and Replace as nominator — Samwb123^T-C-@ 23:49, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: proposed replacement is the same one recently proposed (and not approved) at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bald Eagle. One of the commenters in that debate suggested running this image as delist and replace, however. Chick Bowen 16:55, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose replacement We just voted on this. -- mcshadypl ^T ^C 00:33, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Added another option, with better pose. Elekhh (talk) 04:03, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. On the balance I actually prefer the existing version. Quality of original and proposed replacement is similar, but I have a slight preference to the composition in the original. Quality of Alt2 is lower, especially noisy and possible artifacting in the background, and scattered white blotches all over the bird (I think they may be water droplets, but they're not really clear enough to tell for sure). --jjron (talk) 15:11, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:10, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]