Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kormoran am Nordseestrand bei Nebel, Amrum.jpg

File:Kormoran am Nordseestrand bei Nebel, Amrum.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds#Family_:_Phalacrocoracidae_(Cormorants)
•  Info created by Frank Schulenburg – uploaded by Frank Schulenburg – nominated by Frank Schulenburg --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 05:43, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 05:43, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:41, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Awesome capture, possibly a POTY 2018 candidate. Not only is the technical quality very good (so good you can even see the pupil of the eye), the bird's posture is also something to savour. A real "moment frozen in time" kind of shot.--Peulle (talk) 06:44, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - I concur with the others, but is the young fledgling begging for food? If so, let's specify that in the file description. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:46, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

 Comment I'm actually not sure what kind of behavior this individual is showing. Maybe one of our biologists could help. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 07:14, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

From the picture, it looks like the bird is calling, making some kind of noise for some unspecified reason.--Peulle (talk) 08:38, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes, the bird is calling I think. But Frank, what are the black blobs all over the image? Charles (talk) 15:47, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

 Oppose unexplained black blobs. Charles (talk) 15:55, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

(a) Black blobs: some kind of seaweed, but I'm honestly not sure which species. (b) Behavior: I had a conversation about this with one of the main authors of the great cormorant article on the German Wikipedia. It could be that the bird was regurgitating a pellet. However, after looking at the whole image series that I took that day, I can't 100% confirm that. Another option is that the bird – given it was a very hot day – opened the beak to cool off (a behavior I've seen before with cormorants). I think it would be best not to add any additional information to the image description. Thanks, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:53, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 11:25, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- KTC (talk) 13:00, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Good, although I feel that there is something missing (food?) --Uoaei1 (talk) 14:18, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 16:21, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 19:41, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:06, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:29, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:07, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 12:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tozina (talk) 20:38, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Great moment to capture. --Podzemnik (talk) 19:12, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- P999 (talk) 21:52, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --The NMI User (talk) 03:47, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 11:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:54, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 13:54, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 14:56, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 21 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Basile Morin (talk) 14:08, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds#Family_:_Phalacrocoracidae_(Cormorants)