Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Frogmouth Cryptic Pose

Frogmouth - Cryptic Pose

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Feb 2011 at 09:16:34 (UTC)

Original - The Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, is an Australian variety of Frogmouth, which, when threatened will stay perfectly still with eyes almost shut and bill pointed straight, relying on camouflage for protection.

Reason

This species has two existing FPs, but with the addition of this image to the article we finally have a nice illustration of the camouflage behavior

Articles in which this image appears

Tawny Frogmouth

FP category for this image

animals

Creator

Benjamint 09:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

• Support as nominator --Benjamint 09:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support very cool. It looks like a piece of tree bark in this position! It reminds me of transformer owl. Purpy Pupple (talk) 03:17, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support. But I actually think there are other images in the article that show the camoflage of the bird against the tree better than this one. Perhaps not the behaviour as well though. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 20:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support--Citron (talk) 21:59, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support, though agree with Diliff. --Avenue (talk) 21:49, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

• You're right, I worded that pretty poorly. Are you still planning a trip to Nepal for this year Diliff? Guess it won't be for another 10 months or so but I'm looking forward to seeing some shots Benjamint 22:42, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

• Yeah, I am, at this stage I think it will be early October so about 8 months away. Still haven't confirmed but might also be cycling through Southern France (Pyrenees, Côte d'Azur, foothills of the French Alps) then Italy (Tuscany, Dolomites) and into Slovenia between June and September, so there may be a bit of a flurry of photography later in the year. :-) I've been holding out for the 5D MkIII for ages but it looks like it will be announced toward the end this year (if it was going to be announced, it would have already been by now, based on Canon's usual release dates). Too late for the trip, so I'm probably going to buy a second hand 5D MkII soon and sell it when the MkIII comes out. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 17:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

• Support good EV. Nergaal (talk) 16:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Tawny-frogmouth.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)