Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Stagonopleura bella female - Melaleuca.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Nov 2011 at 09:36:32 (UTC)

Reason

This and the image above make a very nice matching pair. The female has a banded belly, whereas the male has a black belly.

Articles in which this image appears

Beautiful Firetail

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

JJ Harrison

• Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 09:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Excellent. TehGrauniad (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment If the difference is the bellies, there doesn't seem much point featuring (or even showing) both a male and a female if we can't see their bellies. Or have I missed something? --99of9 (talk) 23:50, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • One can see the black patch on the male with these photos, but the difference is subtle. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:23, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Support. We can also see the slight different in size and shape. These two pictures will serve as a very valuable means of differentiating male and female for anyone who wants to know. J Milburn (talk) 11:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Good and rare photo. Broccolo (talk) 02:24, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Support this one. I'd like to see the belly of the male. Pine^talk 09:32, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per 99of9. There's no difference between the two pictures, why feature both? Clegs (talk) 09:44, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Because there is a difference. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:17, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• One's female and one's male. Due to sexual differentiation, each provides a different aspect of the species and thus has separate EV. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:14, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment after the fact: I realize they are different sexes, however, there is nothing to visually distinguish one from the other that is visible in these pictures. The article states the coloring of the "abdomen" (aka belly) is the distinguishing mark between sexes. Neither picture shows that. They're both great pictures, but they are essentially duplicates, right down to the angle the bird is shown at. If there was something in the pictures to visually distinguish between the male and female, then I could support both. Unfortunately, there's not. Clegs (talk) 13:20, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Stagonopleura bella female - Melaleuca.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 11:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]