Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) male with Oxpecker.jpg

File:African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) male with Oxpecker.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Artiodactyla
•  Info Although he doesn't look too happy at having a bird perched on his nose, he's really OK with it as the oxpecker eats ticks that are sucking his blood. Created by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 10:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charles (talk) 10:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Not perfectly sharp everywhere and there are a few annoying plants in the foreground, but that expression is too good to resist. It also illustrates the symbiosis between the animals well. Could be from a Disney movie. :) --cart-Talk 11:33, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support From my own experience I'm very much aware of the 100-400L's physical limitations, so I won't critize any technical details. The "expression is too good to resist," to quote cart. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:45, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment - Great capture, but the spikiness of the lighted bokeh grass is distracting me. Maybe smoothing it out more might help, but I'll leave that to your discretion. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:30, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 20:37, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per Martin. Daniel Case (talk) 20:53, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support lNeverCry 21:33, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:17, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:20, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support----Isasza (talk) 12:46, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 13:56, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 10:52, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
•  Support a nice portrait :-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 23:44, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 20:19, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals/Artiodactyla