File:American woodcock_(95252).jpg scheduled for POTD
Hi Example,
This is to let you know that the featured picture File:American woodcock_(95252).jpg, which you uploaded or nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for June 14, 2026. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2026-06-14. [Optional comments here.] If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! ~~
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The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae. It is found mainly in the eastern half of North America, where it is the most common sandpiper, although unlike most other species it lives primarily in upland woods, thickets, and brushy wetlands. Its plumage is a mottled mix of brown, gray and black that provides effective camouflage against leaves and soil. The American woodcock has a plump body, short legs, large eyes set high on the head, and a long prehensile bill used to probe moist soil for earthworms and other invertebrates. Males are known for their spring courtship displays, giving a buzzy peent call before spiraling into the air. The species is considered of least concern globally, but its population has declined because of habitat loss and forest maturation. This American woodcock was photographed in Bryant Park, New York City, United States. Photograph credit: Rhododendrites
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Usage
This template can be used to notify uploaders and nominators of a featured picture scheduled for POTD by placing a message at the bottom of their user talk pages. This is most easily done by employing the "New section" link at the top of the page and substituting the template using the code below, leaving the subject field blank since the template already generates a heading. There are four unnamed parameters (three required, one optional) and two named parameters (both optional).
Example usage
- Blurb layout (default):
{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2026-06-14 [| Optional comments] [| action=uploaded] [| display=blurb] }}- Thumbnail layout:
{{ subst:NotifyPOTD | [Salutation] | [File:]Example.png | 2026-06-14 [| Optional comments] [| action=uploaded] | display=thumb [| size=200px] }}
- The first parameter (required) provides a customizable salutation, which defaults to "Hi [username]," if left blank (this is done by retaining the pipe character so that it will still be passed as the first parameter).
- The second parameter (required) is the file name of the featured picture. The prefix
File:can either be included or omitted. If this is a multiple POTD (involving a random selection of more than one related image), providing the inputmultiplein place of a file name will generate a slightly different wording to reflect this. All featured pictures that form part of a multiple POTD normally have the same uploader or nominator (possibly the same user). - The third parameter (required) is the date of the scheduled POTD appearance, which can be given in any valid format, but YYYY-MM-DD is preferred, as above.
- The fourth parameter (optional) provides a space for additional comments about the POTD selection. No text is added if the parameter is undefined or left blank.
- The parameter
|action=(optional) replaces the default phrase "uploaded or nominated". - The parameter
|display=(optional) takes two possible values:blurb, which displays the standard layout of the POTD with the blurb as seen on the Main Page underneath the message, andthumb, which displays the POTD image as a thumbnail floating on the right with the article name as the caption. The blurb layout is displayed by default if this parameter is undefined. An example of these two layouts can be seen on the testcases page.- The parameter
|size=(optional) can further be used to control the dimensions of the image in the thumbnail layout; if undefined, the default thumbnail size as set in the user preferences is used.
- The parameter
See also
- {{UpcomingPOTD}}, for talk pages of boldfaced articles