Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/ Mallard: female with ducklings

Mallards: female with ducklings

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Nov 2010 at 17:16:26 (UTC)

Original - Mallards usually form pairs only until the female lays eggs, at which time she is left by the male. The clutch is 8–13 eggs, which are incubated for 27–28 days to hatching with 50–60 days to fledgling. The ducklings are precocial, and can swim and feed themselves on insects as soon as they hatch, although they stay near the female for protection.

Alternative (the only difference with current FP that it is of a much higher resolution and one ducking in focus

Alternative

Current FP (no ducking is in focus, resolution is just a little bit more than 1 megapixel and is not used in Mallard)

Reason

High quality and EV

Articles in which this image appears

Mallard

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

Mbz1

• Support as nominator --Mbz1 (talk) 17:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
• Support Nice photo, best picture of mallard ducklings IMO --George Chernilevsky ^talk 12:58, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
• Weak oppose. This is very much replaceable, so I think I'd want something a little more eye-catching- the composition is not the most exciting. J Milburn (talk) 11:56, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
• The so called current FP of the duckings has no one in the focus. It is much harder to take an image of a family with each and every bird sharp and in focus than to take an image of a single bird.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:10, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
  • In the interest of full information: you did use an automatic camera mode, so claiming great artistry is perhaps a little far-fetched imo. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 15:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

  Where did I claim "great artistry"? It is a simple, good quality encyclopedic image of the birds. It has even greater EV because the ducklings are very young, and all are still around. A few days later only 3 were left. All others were eaten by seagulls and turtles. BTW could you please remind me what were the settings for the current FP? And what image is best to be used in Mallard?--Mbz1 (talk) 15:27, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

  Agreed that the current one is pretty poor, but that's not a reason to support promoting yours. J Milburn (talk) 11:36, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

• Weak Support original, other Oppose-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 13:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Per Milburn. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 00:12, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:59, 18 November 2010 (UTC)