Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Giant kingfisher

Giant kingfisher

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Mar 2017 at 12:15:25 (UTC)

Original – This female giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima), having speared a tilapia, smashes it against a post to break its spline so it can swallow it.

Reason

composite showing how this kingfisher handles a big catch. FP on Commons.

Articles in which this image appears

Giant kingfisher, Kingfisher, Tilapia

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Charlesjsharp

• Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:15, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
• Support - Great action sequence.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:51, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
• Support nice description Brian Everlasting (talk) 02:58, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
• Support – Per Chris. (Now, where's the Pepto?) Sca (talk) 15:13, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:42, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
• Comment – The left image is narrower than the others, can that be remedied? The backgrounds are different, is that because of change in camera position? Bammesk (talk) 15:05, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

• Left hand image sorted. Yes, the boat I was in was moving. Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:37, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Promoted File:Giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) female composite.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:41, 17 March 2017 (UTC)