Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Green-Wood Cemetery parrots (54862).webm

File:Green-Wood Cemetery parrots (54862).webm, featured

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•  Info Monk parakeet nest in the gate to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NYC. created/uploaded/nominated by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:58, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support In the US, our only native parrots are extinct. At some point, however, monk parakeets were shipped from Argentina to New York for the pet trade, and some escaped. Over the years, they developed a few colonies around Brooklyn. Probably the best known is the one at Green-Wood Cemetery, because they chose to nest in its big, decorative gate. You can see the full gate, with the nest at the very top, in this photo. A little more info here. As for the video, they get more active around the :20 mark[edited now]. Also, there's what looks to be some sort of [courtship?] move between the pair of parrots towards the left starting at :34. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:58, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - I think that's courtship, too. This video is a little short, but it's interesting. I used to teach at Brooklyn College, where a bunch of these birds nest on the lights at the top of tall poles in the athletic fields I used to walk through. They're very chattery - not in any human language, though, just in their own. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:20, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Eatcha (talk) 08:24, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Nice. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 19:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
• @Eatcha, Ikan Kekek, and Frank Schulenburg: In the version initially uploaded, there's about 20 seconds of inactivity in the beginning, which includes a minor camera shake. I uploaded a new version cutting that out, here: File:Green-Wood Cemetery parrots (54862) edit.webm and hoped to get it merged into the original (as a new version) before anyone voted here. It's still not done, so a question for the three of you: do you agree with me that the edit is the better version? Mainly noting Ikan's comment about it being a little short. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  19:28, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment - I do agree. The shortened version is more exciting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:22, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
• Update: Files merged. Updated description accordingly. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:12, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

•  Support --Boothsift 05:16, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Technically ideal and nice caption --PantheraLeo1359531 (talk) 16:49, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Hanooz 23:34, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:
Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Eatcha (talk) 01:27, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
This media will be added to the FM gallery: Nature