Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) attacking, Amsterdam island, Svalbard.jpg

File:Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) attacking, Amsterdam island, Svalbard.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family_:_Sternidae_.28Terns.29
•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by AWeith -- AWeith (talk) 08:36, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment When breeding, these guys are extremely aggressive and protect their nest or hatchlings from the air by painful strikes with their beaks. The only way to protect oneself is either to stay at a safe distance or to lift something like a walking stick (or the telelens) above the head. I'm trying to explain that this image resulted from a risky departure... -- AWeith (talk) 08:36, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great capture, and the areas that are blurred by motion are quite OK, under the circumstances. I didn't realize when I first saw this photo that you were the object of the attack! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:04, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

• There were three of us and we've all been victims; one after the other. --AWeith (talk) 09:42, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Going by our usual (extremely high) bird-standards this is a rather small and not as-sharp-as-usual photo, but as an action shot of a bird protecting its own, it's superb. The action is embedded in the motion blur of the slightly distorted feathers, creating a beautiful silhouette. (Being picky, I could ask for a few extra lines of pixels at the top since the wing tip is rather close to the edge.) That is one angry bird... --cart-Talk 10:14, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:05, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 6.6 megapixels is fine for a bird-in-flight photo and the head is sharp. Behavioural shots of wildlife are especially valuable and uncommon. -- Colin (talk) 17:18, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Strong support Per Ikan. I will add for myself that having seen similar behavior from Arctic terns in the Arctic, and having made a few attempts to photograph them in normal flight, this is no mean feat. Image's technical deficiencies are more than adequately compensated for by what it captured. Daniel Case (talk) 22:02, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 04:49, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 05:05, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 06:25, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- -donald- (talk) 07:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 07:20, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:23, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Zcebeci (talk) 12:27, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Great bird in flight shot. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:54, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 15:31, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Charadriiformes#Family_:_Sternidae_.28Terns.29