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The chestnut-headed bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti) is a bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae, which is distributed in an area ranging from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka across Southeast Asia to Indonesia. It is 18–20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) in overall length and weighs 26–33 g (0.92–1.16 oz), with the sexes being similar in appearance. It is a multi-coloured bird, with parts of the bird such as the forehead and nape being chestnut, and other parts being green, yellow, black and blue. It eats predominantly insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. This chestnut-headed bee-eater was photographed in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: John C. Dancy Swallowtail butterfly Takht-i-Bahi Archive More featured pictures

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Just pulling this here to avoid going too off-topic there. Note the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution and a few other sites I use have the original negatives for some of the images. That can mean that we're looking at parts of the image they had intended to crop out.

Now, I'm not in any means suggesting we do crop them out unnecessarily (it can be hard to tell exactly where the top of an image is (For example, File:Robert Smalls - Brady-Handy - Original.tif, I'd say that the mirror-writing photographer's note scratched into the top of the negative indicates that's not an intended part of the image for use, and there's no real reason to consider that part of the image worth salvaging, but it certainly gets more ambiguous from there. As I've said before, I prefer to bias towards including as much of the image as possible.

• I agree Adam; unless the photographer cropped; but of course, like we do now; there can be many crops. And one cropped and published on the front page of the New York Times might be OK. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:17, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But I'm mainly just jumping at the chance to talk historical photography. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 18:50, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, swallowtails inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera. This Zerynthia rumina butterfly, also known as the Spanish festoon, was photographed in Extremadura, Spain. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: Takht-i-Bahi ATLAS experiment Malabar pied hornbill Archive More featured pictures

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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) female in flight.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 12:35, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Charles! Hope I'm not being a pain, but do you think this image is good enough to nominate? Person's important, and the photographer's major, but I'm not sure if this is one of Van Vechten's best. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 12:07, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• No, it's not a great shot, Adam, with such a forced expression. The 'tilted' background pattern is distracting too. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:09, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Aye, that's what I feared. Ah, well. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:25, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How about File:New_Zealand,_Bounty_Islands,_maritime_cadets,_1907-1918.jpg - after restoration, of course? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 14:34, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Tricky to see much historical significance here. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  True. It's one of the only historical photos for the article it's in, but probably too distant. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:50, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani) is a bird in the cuckoo family, Kookooaius. It is a resident breeding species from southern Florida, the Caribbean, parts of Central America, south to western Ecuador, Brazil, northern Argentina and southern Chile. The smooth-billed ani is a mid-sized species, larger on average than the groove-billed ani but smaller than the greater ani. It measures approximately 35 cm (14 in) in overall length. Males weigh around 115 g (4.1 oz) while females are lighter and with a weight of around 95 g (3.4 oz). The adult is mainly glossy black, with a long tail, deep ridged black bill and a brown iris. This smooth-billed ani was photographed in George Town, on the island of Grand Cayman. Photograph Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: Tirumala septentrionis Marilyn Monroe Archive More featured pictures

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Tirumala septentrionis, commonly known as the dark blue tiger, is a species of butterfly in the danaid subfamily of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South and South East Asia, including the Himalayas through to southern India and Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Cambodia. Its upper wing is generally black with some bluish-white semihyaline markings and its wing span is 80–115 mm. This T. septentrionis male was photographed in Kumarakom, Kerala, India. Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp Recently featured: Marilyn Monroe Ruby Bridges Archive More featured pictures

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