Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Great Blue Heron Eating Common Snapping Turtle

Great Blue Heron Eating Common Snapping Turtle

Original - Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) eating a Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) hatchling.

Reason

Image illustrates a Great Blue Heron eating its prey. The image has been used on the article for months and provides a great close-up of the turtle in the heron's mouth.

Articles this image appears in

Great Blue Heron

Creator

John Harrison

• Support as nominator --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:41, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support upstateNYer 11:30, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• Support Pmlineditor ∞ 17:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
• Support. --candle•wicke 02:59, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
• Support Works.   Nezzadar ☎   22:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:GreatBlueHeroneatingturtle08.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:29, 20 October 2009 (UTC)