Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rufous-headed ground-roller

Rufous-headed ground-roller (Atelornis crossleyi).jpg edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Jan 2019 at 17:43:30 (UTC)

Original – Rufous-headed ground-roller (Atelornis crossleyi), a secretive and near-threatened Madagascar endemic in Ranomafana National Park

Reason: High quality image of secretive and near-threatened Madagascar endemic
Articles in which this image appears: Rufous-headed ground-roller Ground roller
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Charlesjsharp

Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:43, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks very good. You were incredibly productive while in Madagascar; how long were/are you there? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 00:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

just over three weeks. Hard work with Madagascar's dreadful roads and everything being done on foot. Nearly every shot requires flash as the few remaining wildlife locations are deep forest. Outside of the National Parks every living thing has been destroyed, so you never see birds perching by the roadside or in fields or grasslands. There aren't any left. Only saved by enthusiastic and helpful guides who are brilliant at finding reptiles and amphibians and carrying camera gear up and down slippery tracks. --Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:50, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's incredibly sad. Wow. What happened to the country? I mean, it's about the size of Britain, isn't it? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 12:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Widespread poverty and corruption. MER-C 12:14, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question Do you have anything of this that isn't quite so nuked with camera flash? The steel-eye and plumage doesn't look natural as is (exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C). JJ Harrison (talk) 09:45, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As your exhibits show, this is an extraordinarily difficult bird to photograph. This is the best shot I could get from three sightings in the forest undergrowth. I retouched the eye. The plumage colours look comparable to images that show up on a Google search. I'm actually pretty pleased with it! Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:43, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support. MER-C 12:14, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 16:03, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – not significant EV in the first article (article is too weak), but good EV in Ground roller. Bammesk (talk) 03:53, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support as I did at Commons. Daniel Case (talk) 02:17, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Rufous-headed ground-roller (Atelornis crossleyi).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]