Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2019/Winners/Wildlife and nature/round 2

Selection from the national finalists.

• Featured file
• Quality images
• Valued file
• Used on wikimedia platforms

currently voting: 12 out of 12

See also round 1.

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  Searching for Abbott's boobies in dense rain forest canopies
  Christina Lipka
  11.818
  6.250 out of 10, SD 2.919
  
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  A burst of northern lights in northern Russia
  Gornaevv
  13.182
  5.833 out of 10, SD 2.887
  
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  Killer Whales Hunting a Crabeater Seal
  () Callan Carpenter
  13.273
  7.917 out of 10, SD 2.346
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  Killer Whales Hunting a Crabeater Seal
  () Callan Carpenter
  14.636
  7.917 out of 10, SD 0.973
  
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  Ringing of Ural owl (Strix uralensis)
  Yana Dombrovskaya
  15.812
  6.042 out of 10, SD 2.911
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  Immature Phidippus jumping spider in Pennsylvania
  Ryan Kaldari
  16.364
  7.292 out of 10, SD 1.671
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  Common Coot or Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) scoots across the water on Chambal River
  Amitava Dutta
  16.455
  7.917 out of 10, SD 1.794
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  Caenolyda reticulata
  Gubin Olexander
  16.909
  6.042 out of 10, SD 2.911
  
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  Horse Spider
  Грибков михаил
  17.818
  7.083 out of 10, SD 2.575
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  View of the glow in the sky from Helsinki from the shore of the Jõelähtme region
  Maxim Bilovitskiy
  17.818
  5.833 out of 10, SD 3.257
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  Polar bears chewing on power cables for field instruments during the Polarstern MOSAiC expedition
  (File:Nuvola Arctica flag.svg) Janek Uin
  18.091
  6.875 out of 10, SD 1.885
  
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  Redkite flying
  Luis Scarabino
  18.182
  6.458 out of 10, SD 2.709
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  Vespula germanica queen in hibernation
  Massimo Brizzi
  18.636
  7.500 out of 10, SD 2.383
  
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  Lightning in Saaremaa
  Tanel Nook
  18.727
  7.500 out of 10, SD 3.371
  
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  Darter bird in a lake near Bangalore
  () Aaditya C. Deodhar
  19.000
  7.083 out of 10, SD 2.787
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  A Highland cow roaming a hill in Edinburgh.
  () Ashley Lee
  19.273
  6.250 out of 10, SD 3.108
  
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  Spider web
  Carmen Rivas
  19.545
  5.625 out of 10, SD 2.638
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  Trumpeting of Indian Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) in its courtship ritual
  Amitava Dutta
  20.182
  5.417 out of 10, SD 1.794
  
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  Cladonia deformis and Polytrichum commune
  S.katrinaH
  20.818
  6.042 out of 10, SD 2.491
  
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  Crown shyness of trees in the Novosibirsk Botanical Gardens
  Vladislav Nekrasov
  21.818
  5.833 out of 10, SD 2.683
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  Urothemis signata
  Sumanth699
  21.636
  6.250 out of 10, SD 2.261
  
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  Parasitic rider's head
  Грибков михаил
  21.818
  5.625 out of 10, SD 2.845
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  Brahminy Kite with a huge kill
  Aaditya C Deodhar
  22.182
  5.833 out of 10, SD 2.683
  
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  Environmental disaster in Levikha Village, because of the massive sulfide underground mine
  Vasily Iakovlev
  22.455
  6.250 out of 10, SD 3.108
  
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  Big grasshopper in the Amazon (Región Pastaza, Ecuador)
  () Juan de Dios Franco Navarro
  22.545
  7.083 out of 10, SD 2.984
  
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  Spider attacks a grasshopper in the Amazon (Región Pastaza, Ecuador)
  () Juan de Dios Franco Navarro
  22.727
  6.875 out of 10, SD 3.039
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  Coral fluorescence.
  () Грибков михаил
  24.091
  6.875 out of 10, SD 2.638
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  Fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus ignipectus) male, Mount Phulchowki, Nepal
  () Charles J. Sharp
  24.727
  5.625 out of 10, SD 2.413
  
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  Spider kills a grasshopper in the Amazon (Región Pastaza, Ecuador)
  () Juan de Dios Franco Navarro
  22.728
  7.083 out of 10, SD 2.984
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  Geotrupes stercorarius
  PanWoyteczek
  25.091
  5.417 out of 10, SD 3.169
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  Chlorophorus varius
  Adrianna Rafalska
  25.545
  6.667 out of 10, SD 2.212
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  fungus from Pluteaceae
  Ángel M. Felicísimo
  25.545
  5.417 out of 10, SD 3.819
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  Macro photography of spider Epeire Diadème
  Maxime
  25.636
  6.875 out of 10, SD 3.220
  
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  Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach) intergrade in Bardiya National Park.
  () Charles J. Sharp
  27.000
  5.417 out of 10, SD 2.787
  
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  Praying mantis
  Seek liam
  26.091
  5.417 out of 10, SD 3.509
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  A plain tiger butterfly on Lantana flower.
  () Aadimars19
  26.273
  5.833 out of 10, SD 1.946
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  A camouflaged Perez's frog (Pelophylax perezi).
  () João Manuel Lemos Lima
  27.000
  5.417 out of 10, SD 1.946
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  Hermit crab on the peninsula of Caravelle
  Christelle el Jamali
  27.455
  6.458 out of 10, SD 2.911
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  White-tailed eagle
  VmeganV
  27.455
  5.833 out of 10, SD 2.462
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  Wild Orb-weaver Spider at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
  Tan Pek Nan
  28.909
  5.833 out of 10, SD 2.683
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  Swans at the lake of Zürich
  Arthur Gamsa
  29.273
  5.417 out of 10, 3.343
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  Motacilla alba (White wagtail)
  木偶人1962
  29.636
  7.500 out of 10, SD 1.846

Comments

• Circa 50% of best files from previous round.
• This year we tried to discriminate using also the ranking phase, not only the average with standard deviation.