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•  Info created by Frank Schulenburg – uploaded by Frank Schulenburg – nominated by Frank Schulenburg --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:59, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 01:20, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Strong support Excellent quality and composition of a difficult subject, nice light. I find this one even better than the previous duck you nominated here -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

• I agree with you, Basile. Also, this one offers more details due to the bigger sensor. Now, with that being said, the first pintail shot was taken with a 5D Mk IV and a 400mm unstabilized lens, which – as I now realize – was so much more difficult given that I had to hit the focus without any kind of eye-autofocus support that the new mirrorless RF cameras offer. A guy that I'm following on YouTube even went so far as to state that taking bird-in-flight images like this with a modern camera felt "like cheating" :-) --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

• If that's cheating, you should withdraw :-) Lol

More seriously, looking again at it, in addition to my review above, I find the colors particularly harmonious between the animal and the background -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:55, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:40, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --IamMM (talk) 05:14, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 05:47, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support per Basile. -- Radomianin (talk) 06:28, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 08:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:28, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 08:34, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay 💬 08:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 09:55, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Us fellow cheats should stick together! By the way Frank, I sent my R6 bodies back to Canon because of the focus problems and they seem to be slightly better, but we'll have to wait and see. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:32, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Yeriho (talk) 11:14, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Hulged (talk) 11:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 12:51, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 15:12, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 15:52, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 16:08, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Commonists 17:12, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

• Another sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. - Benh (talk) 19:25, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 19:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 19:14, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support stunning shot of a difficult subject to get so sharp. nice job! Seven Pandas (talk) 01:30, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 11:26, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 13:09, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support oooo -- Colin (talk) 20:55, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --GRDN711 (talk) 22:53, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 23:14, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Axel ^(talk) 14:35, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 30 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 07:35, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Anseriformes#Genus_:_Anas