Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sleeping Mallard Ducklings
- Reason
- The image adds the value to the article, by illustrating the habits of sleeping ducks. IMO it is also interesting that such small ducklings already know what is the safest way to sleep.
- Proposed caption
- Sleeping Mallard Ducklings( Anas platyrhynchos). The ducks usually sleep with their head turned around backwards and nestled into their feathers, to keep their unfeathered bill warm. They also have a habit of sleeping in a line where the ducks on the ends sleep with one eye open, watching for predators. At the image you could see that the duckling at the right has his eye at least half opened.
- Articles this image appears in
- Mallard
- Creator
- Mbz1
- Support as nominator Mbz1 13:43, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose due to lack of DOF - there really isn't focus anywhere except on some wet breast feather of the central duckling and the front of the stone. Appears that the focus point should have been set further away. Cute pic, though. --Janke | Talk 14:22, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Even the half opened eye of the right duckling is out of focus?
--Mbz1 18:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- That emot was always the creepiest one. *shudder* --ffroth 19:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
- Even the half opened eye of the right duckling is out of focus?
- Oppose Per Janke. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 23:56, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
- Weak Oppose per above points. --Sharkface217 22:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Not promoted MER-C 02:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)