Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Double-crested cormorant

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 May 2020 at 02:41:45 (UTC)

Reason: Quality lead image, represents the subject well. We do have a 2005 FP here but it doesn't have a good angle or high resolution. I will do a delist nom once this nom passes.
Articles in which this image appears: Double-crested cormorant
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Frank Schulenburg

Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 02:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:37, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 08:12, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice! —kallerna 08:50, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Gnosis (talk) 14:11, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:27, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment/Question - I don't think the article should lead with a photo of a juvenile. The convention (for pretty much all animal articles, not just birds) is to lead with photos of "typical" adults (sometimes with separate photos of the male and female if they are sexually dimorphic). We usually put juvenile photos in a Life cycle or Gallery section. If I were to move this photo lower down in the article, that wouldn't affect the nomination would it? Kaldari (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kaldari, it shouldn't affect the nom, being in an infobox is not a requirement. It just implies editors think it represents the subject well (it just implies, it doesn't prove). The image has EV as a juvenile, improves the article as such, and meets the technical requirements, therefore it meets the FP criteria, regardless of whether it's in the infobox or not. Personally I am Ok with it in the infobox because, it's the best image, it is identified by a caption therefore no misrepresentation, and it has been stable. However, if you or anyone wants to move it, they could (my edit summary in the article says so as well). Bammesk (talk) 01:43, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Double-crested cormorant at Sutro Baths-6460.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:17, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]