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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Pelecaniformes#Genus_:_Ardea
•  Info Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) eating a brown watersnake (Nerodia taxispilota, about 1.5m long). This is taken at a moment of lurching its head back to swallow more of the snake, with the snake's tail flung outward like a long, bizarre tongue. The technical quality/sharpness is not good enough for a typical FP of this bird, of course, but it's a special moment/action shot. Would be curious to hear if folks have suggestions for how to improve it in post-processing. all by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:27, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:27, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support You might be able to do local retouching around the head, but it's never going to be 'FP quality'. I'd just be happy at a great shot. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:05, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Badass bird, great moment and good composition! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:33, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per Charles & Ikan. -- Terragio67 (talk) 01:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support !! -- Radomianin (talk) 08:48, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Ermell (talk) 10:37, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 14:06, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 20:04, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per Charles. Capturing this is enough for FP for me. Daniel Case (talk) 04:16, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Wieggy (talk) 07:41, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Weak support This snake looking like a giant tongue is really awesome. It's a shame the quality and light are very average, and the background a bit busy. Still support for the originality -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 09:52, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 12:56, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Support This is exactly the kind of shot we need more of at FPC. BigDom (talk) 07:02, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 02:39, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Pelecaniformes#Genus_:_Ardea