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OriginalGreat tit (Parus major), Lancashire, UK
Alt.1Great tit (Parus major), by Lviatour
Reason
Quality images of Great Tit
Articles in which this image appears
Great Tit
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
Baresi franco & Lviatour
I'm not sure about atypical - the original just shows the bird with its crest raised, the alt has it flattened to its head.--Baresi F (talk) 14:05, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I have just checked dozens and dozens of pictures of great tits from Google image search, and I don't see a single one whose head/neck shape relative to body looks like the one here, so I'm sticking to my "atypical" claim. 86.190.50.223 (talk) 18:07, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Compare this blue tit to this blue tit. It's just to do with the pose. The feathers can be raised by the birds themselves for various reasons, or sometimes they appear raised just because of the wind. I'll leave whether to support or oppose up to you, but it's not like the photo is of a freak bird or anything. J Milburn (talk) 09:25, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's an interesting question as to whether, for a given species, there is such a thing as a 'typical' or best encyclopaedic pose that can be captured in vivo. Many good field guides use rather upright, stiff-looking drawings for small passerines - in fact, all of the tits in my Helm's guide show the birds with head proud from the body. Check out this 300-odd year old Great tit illustration - it's got its head/neck in a similar position to the original nom here, although its crest is frustratingly down :-) --Baresi F (talk) 14:24, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Great tit side-on.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:36, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]