Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Corvus corone Bob 20190916 t170115.jpg

File:Corvus corone Bob 20190916 t170115.jpg, featured

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Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Corvidae_(Crows,_Jays_and_Magpies)
Info A very sharp and high-resolution shot of the head of a carrion crow (corvus corone). Looking in the FP category for the Corvidae family, there are several FPs of various crows, magpies etc., but none of this particular species. There are head portraits of the hooded crow and the jungle crow, which are both pretty good, but this is a different species, and higher-resolution than both. created by Jastrow - uploaded by Jastrow - nominated by Cmao20 -- Cmao20 (talk) 19:10, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 19:10, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Impressive. --Podzemnik (talk) 20:39, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the bird is impressive, but the background appears to be false - check out my note where the green covers the bird's feathers - and also check out the reflection in the bird's eye which might indicate there was an urban background. I do hope I'm wrong and that the photographer can put me right. Charles (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- The background is very real—I haven't got the technical chops to create it if I wanted to! Some ideas why those areas of the picture look that way: green fringing from the macro lens I used, perhaps, though this file is normally corrected for that; feather barbs are very thin in worn plumage.
- There is an urban background indeed: the bird was perched on a railing closing a small courtyard in the Jardin des Plantes, a botanical garden in Paris hosting the main campus of the French National Natural History Museum. I know this crow very well (he eats from my hand), which is why I can approach him very close, with a 105mm lens. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 06:11, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support Thanks very much for the explanation. Charles (talk) 09:59, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good shar4p focus to the bird --Michielverbeek (talk) 22:28, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice light, colors, and very high resolution -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 02:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:51, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per others, and thanks for the explanation, Jastrow. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:26, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:30, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Grtek (talk) 11:52, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hockei (talk) 17:15, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like the way we can see your reflection in the bird's eye (Too small to categorize on that basis, but still pretty cool). Daniel Case (talk) 20:35, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cayambe (talk) 21:53, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Famberhorst (talk) 06:01, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Poco a poco (talk) 11:56, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Andrei (talk) 13:52, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Fischer.H (talk) 16:35, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:09, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Corvidae_(Crows,_Jays_and_Magpies)