Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

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Original – Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

Reason: Easily the best available image, terrestrial or at sea, of this species, famous for having the longest wingspan of any living bird.
Articles in which this image appears: Wandering Albatross
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 11:18, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Extra 999 (Contact ^me) 16:28, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support -- Would have higher EV if he had his wings open. As usual, great technical quality... Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:45, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support -- It's a nice image, but since you mention that it is famous for having the longest wingspan for any living bird, an image showing its wings open probably would get my full support. – TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 02:20, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This sort of image lets someone identify the bird on the water or on land not flying. I think there is ultimately room for both eventually. Field guides have both. I've only got a few shots of the rump in the air, which doesn't show much from an identification point of view, though it is a cool angle in the sense that you can see how aerodynamic they are. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:07, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great. TehGrauniad (talk) 15:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support works OK for identifying the bird. Pine^talk 05:22, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Technically solid image, good (but not amazing) EV per above. Spencer^T♦C 16:56, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Diomedea_exulans_-_SE_Tasmania.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 17:29, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]