Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) on an ice floe, Svalbard.jpg

File:Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) on an ice floe, Svalbard.jpg, featured edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 12 Mar 2020 at 11:50:50 (UTC)
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Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family : Stercorariidae (Skuas)
Info The author of this image has sadly passed away, but his work continues to impress. This is an older image but remains to me an excellent bird photo - sharp, with a nice pose, and with a good clear background. created by AWeith - uploaded by AWeith - nominated by Cmao20 -- Cmao20 (talk) 11:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 11:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Info The category into which I have placed this image doesn't actually exist yet, as there are no featured photos of birds in this family. Will it need to be created manually if the image becomes FP? Cmao20 (talk) 11:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it will, but having the right gallery in the nom will be a great help to whoever is doing the sorting. Just make sure you don't have the empty spaces underlined (now fixed). It might even be to the nom's advantage to indicate by an empty section, that it's a first and not "just another gull/dove/heron". Such things shouldn't matter but voters are normally pickier on the "yet another ..." photos. Thank you for thinking of this. :-) --Cart (talk) 12:02, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:23, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cart (talk) 14:09, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:23, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Fischer.H (talk) 15:28, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yes, a great photo by the late Herr Weith. There might be a few dust spots to the left of the bird's head and back, but it's hard to be sure what the spots are. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:10, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I thought the same myself at first, but I'm reasonably sure they are tiny water droplets. Thanks for your vote. Cmao20 (talk) 17:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, water droplets are likely. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:44, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Aristeas (talk) 17:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Poco a poco (talk) 20:22, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:16, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:32, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - George Chernilevsky ^talk 13:05, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Killarnee (T•R•P) 02:37, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cayambe (talk) 07:32, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Podzemnik (talk) 01:58, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 17:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:37, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Eatcha (talk) 14:31, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family : Stercorariidae (Skuas)