Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Northern fulmars chasing Kittywakes away from their fishing ground.jpg
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- Category: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family_:_Laridae_.28Gulls.29
Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 10:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)- Info I know this image does not obey to many photographic rules. I nominate it anyway because I think it features two topics: i) This behavior has - to the best of my knowledge - not been documented before; ii) This - IMO - is one of my most fancy contre-jour photos of wildlife as the scenario with those thousands of water droplets really reveals the dynamics of this moment. Judge yourself. I was courageous; now you be spirited ; -). -- AWeith (talk) 10:15, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Support lNeverCry 10:25, 24 October 2016 (UTC)- Support More Angry Birds! :) Have I understood this action shot correctly that fulmars are coming in from the left in the pic and the kittywakes are fleeing front and right? I like that the water spray creates a sort of backdrop (no pun intended) to the fight. cart-Talk 11:25, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Info Yes, (almost) correctly observed (you are a very good observer!). The fulmars swam directly atop the shoal of fish and the kittywakes flew in the air above them. The Kittywakes kept diving down from a height and into the water. Then the fulmars all - in the image from the left and from the back - darted for the diving Kittywakes who - succesful or not - fled from the site towards us or to the right. The whole battle lasted at least for an hour and I shot more than two hundred photos of that scene. I deemed the contr-jour ones the most dramatic and exiting ones. Also: see my photo of a succesful Kittywake which unfortunately has a cut left wing. :( --AWeith (talk) 12:26, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks! :) You could add some of this explanation to the description on the file's page. It will add to the value of the pic if viewers have a little help in understanding it and figuring out which bird is doing what. cart-Talk 13:11, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support very impressive at full screen! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 14:14, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Jee 16:54, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support - I think this is a terrific photo, really outstanding! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:55, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 20:27, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Great action shot! National Geographic-quality. Daniel Case (talk) 02:58, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Outstanding. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Wow! --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:22, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 11:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:56, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Info AWeith you have to search category here. Which one ? --Mile (talk) 15:15, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Question Mile, according to the FP categorization I would have to select two categories as there are two protagonist species. Please advise. --AWeith (talk) 16:00, 29 October 2016 (UTC)- AWeith put cat where this is most relative. Up to the birds. I asked for 2 cats above on my BW shot. Maybe someday. --Mile (talk) 16:09, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family : Laridae (Gulls)
