Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/White-tailed Trogon

Male White-tailed Trogon

**Original** - The **White-tailed Trogon**, **Trogon viridis**, is a near passerine bird in the trogon family. It occurs from Panama south to southern Brazil, and on Trinidad. White-tailed Trogon's are a relatively large species about 29 cm long and weighs 82 g. Trogons have distinctive male and female plumage, with soft, often colorful, feathers. The head and upper breast of the male are blue and the back is green, becoming bluer on the rump. The lower underparts are golden yellow. The undertail has a black center, broadly edged with white, and the wings are black, vermiculated with white.

Reason: Image I found while surfing the commons in a category I created. I moved it immediately to the article it is in now. The image is high quality, very encyclopedic and has with its addition to the article it's in, has improved the article quality greatly.
Articles this image appears in: White-tailed Trogon
Creator: Commons:User:Mdf

Support as nominator ZeWrestler ^Talk 14:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support High-quality, highly illustrative (I feel like I could recognize one of these birds if I saw it), and beautiful. Good find. Dr. e X treme 14:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Though you just know that someone's going to object to that branch blocking part of the view. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:16, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support can we just go ahead and make all of Mdf's pictures featured? :P Kidding aside, another superb shot, great quality, obviously encyclopedic value. faithless (^speak) 06:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral to weak oppose It's a good image, and it has good encyclopediac value, but I don't like the way the branch covers so much of the bird. Also, the flash in it's eye is distracting, and the coloring isn't the best. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 12:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If the flash is a problem in its eye, could someone edit it out?--ZeWrestler ^Talk 23:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Unfortunately, the branch is really thick and does cover a lot of the bird. A great picture, but I think there could be better shots. Jared (t) 01:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- not one of Mdf's best works. Besides the branch, the lighting is too artificial. howcheng {chat} 17:15, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. As much as I hate opposing Mdf's great contributions, I must agree with opinions above. The branch is just too significant to ignore, and the whole pose of the bird isn't particularly 'comfortable'. --jjron (talk) 09:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Howcheng and jjron. It almost looks like an ex-Parrot to me. Was it shot from below, d'you suppose? or maybe it was poisoned? (sorry). --mikaul^talk 01:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 09:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]