Reason

High quality. Finally got close enough to this timid species.

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White-faced Heron

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Noodle snacks

• Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 02:59, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. While this is very good I personally find the taxobox image File:White-faced Heron.jpg a more engaging shot; unfortunately the focus on that looks to have just missed, otherwise I would be inclined to nominate it here. Another thing I was wondering though was whether you'd intentionally cropped at the bottom where it is; it's a strong reflection and I'd be interested to see how it would come up if we could see the whole bird in the reflection. If not, I'd possibly crop it a bit higher up, at least taking out the reflected neck feathers. --jjron (talk) 11:26, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
  • No room on the reflection, mostly because I was trying to keep the focus point on the eye. Attached an alternate with a slightly different pose, similar luck on the foreground reflection though and the lighting is imo inferior. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:35, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
• Support original Greater realism with water ripples. Durova^Charge! 22:03, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
• Support original as above, would prefer a slightly different crop as jjron Muhammad(talk) 10:10, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Good shot but I prefer either the one Jjron mentioned or File:IMG 8332 1000.jpg - less distracting backgrounds and better look at the feet. Makeemlighter (talk) 03:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
• I'd guess I'll argue that a front on shot better shows the nuptial plumes (pink feathers in breeding plumage) on the the neck and that the photograph demonstrates a different type of feeding behaviour to the other images ("The White-faced heron uses a variety of techniques to find food including standing still and waiting for prey movement, walking slowly in shallow water, wing flicking, foot raking or even chasing prey with open wings"). Noodle snacks (talk) 00:08, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Yeah I've actually got quite a few of this bird myself (I've only got this one with me at the moment on my laptop though) which have nicer backgrounds. But I think NS has a good point too regarding illustrating feeding... --Fir0002 00:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
• Weak Support See comment above - I've seen/taken nicer shots of the bird itself but this one is pretty good for feeding --Fir0002 00:41, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
• Note. The lead image of the article has just been nominated. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 02:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Egretta novaehollandiae Tasmania 3.jpg Enough support, no opposes and quite a lot of neutral --Noodle snacks (talk) 05:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)