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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Painted Stork

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Original - An adult painted stork, Mycteria leucocephala, standing tall at the Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka, India.
Reason
The image is of high technical quality: good contrast, neutral colour balance. The subject is in focus, and the framed against a distant, natural background. The image is also of high resolution. It is also amongst wikipedia's best work, better than the other existing images of the painted stork. The encyclopedic knowledge it adds is indisputable, the image clearly illustrates the colours in the plumage and of the different parts of the bird's body.
Articles this image appears in
Painted Stork, Stork
Creator
Emeldil

Not promoted . --John254 02:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]