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Diagnostic Southern Rough-winged Swallow, Stelgidopteryx ruficollis, 13 cm. / 5 in. Widespread in semi-open areas in humid lowlands and lower subtropical zone.
Buenaventura Reserve, El Oro Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Green-and-Black Fruiteater (Green-and-Black), Pipreola riefferii riefferi, 18cm / 7in. COMMON at mid-levels to the canopy of subtropical and lower temperate forest.
Reserva Biologica Rio Blanco, Departamento de Caldas, Colombia.
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Diagnostic Rüppell's Starling, Lamprotornis purpuroptera purpuroptera, 32cm. / 12.5in. COMMON and wide-ranging.
Kisumu, Western, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Schalow's Turaco, Tauraco schalowi loitanus, 40cm / 16in. COMMON in forest and riparian woodland. From the middle of thick vegetation we were trying to find it while it was trying to look at us.
Maasai Mara, Tran Mara, Rift Valley, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Black-browed Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus bistrigiceps, 12.5 - 13.5 cm. / 4.9 - 5.3 in. COMMON summer visitor to reed beds and grassy fields from central Honshu northward. Very distant bird
Kishimizu, Shari-Gun, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Diagnostic Ross's Turaco, Musophaga rossae, 54cm / 21in. Widespread and locally COMMON in riparian forest, forest edge, woodland and mature gardens. Pretty tough to get out in the open, or close to this bird.
Maasai Mara, Trans Mara, Rift Valley, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Broad-winged Katydid, Microcentrum rhombifolium, 2 - 2.5 in / 50 - 65 mm. Eats leaves in the crowns of deciduous trees of wooded areas, parks and suburban neighborhoods.
Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA.
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Diagnostic Green-backed Trogon, White-tailed Trogon (Amazonian), Surucuá-grande-de-barriga-amrela, Trogon viridis melanopterus, 30 cm / 11.8 in. Upper to mid-level of humid forests, woodland, second growth and plantations.
RPPN Estação Veracel, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Plain-brown Woodcreeper, Dendrocincla fuliginosa lafresnayei, 20cm / 8in. COMMON in humid forest of the lowlands and foothills.
Hotel Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve, Departamento de Caldas, Colombia.
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Diagnostic Black-faced Spoonbill, Platalea minor, 73.5 cm. / 28.9 in. RARE visitor to freshwater marshes and coastal mudflats. With the bill tucked along its back, you can see the black face covering the eye.
Triangle Pond, Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan.
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti participating in Italian
Space Agency ASI’s Acoustic Diagnostics experiment aboard the International Space Station.
This experiment uses special headphones containing a small device that records the response of the inner ear to study the effect of microgravity and background noise on astronaut hearing. Detecting hearing loss in space will both help take care of astronauts’ health during long missions and improve a device for testing hearing more accurately in any noisy environment on Earth.
ID: iss067e183756_alt
Credit: ESA/NASA
Newport, KY. April 11, 2020. Shot on a Nikon F6 and Fuji Natura 1600. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
diagnostic metro train synergy-2 consisting of metro trains 81-717/714.5 this metro train checks the condition of the track and tunnels this train leaves the depot during the day off-peak time the synergy-2 train is assigned to the Krasnaya Presnya depot and does not serve passengers it passes metro stations without stopping
Diagnostic Female and 2 kittens. Iberian Lynx, Lynx pardinus, Males; 79.6 - 88.3cm / 31.3 - 34.8in.; Females; 73.1 - 83.8cm / 28.8 - 33in. ENDANGERED. Open grassland mixed with dense shrubs and scattered trees. Now a very limited range of mountainous terrain. We did not get as close as we would have liked, but felt lucky to find a species so endangered. In 2014 they were close to extinction with 94 left in the wild.
Sierra de Andujar - - La Mancha. Jaen County, Andalusia, Spain.
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Diagnostic Screaming Piha, Cricrio, Lipaugus vociferans, 25 cm / 9.8 in. Humid forest. Although this one stayed silent, that is a cool name!
Santa Cruz Cabralia, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic White-collared Blackbird, Turdus albocintus, 27 cm. / 10.63 in. Resident in broadleaved, coniferous and broadleaf/coniferous forest, forest clearings and edges.
Upper Lingmethang Road, Sengor Camp, Thrumshing National Park, Monggar Province, Bhutan.
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Diagnostic African Wood-Owl, Strix woodfordii nigricantior, 34 cm / 13.5 in. COMMON in a wide range of forest, forest edge, woodland and mature gardens.
Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Kenya.
Diagnostic Crested Finchbill, Spizixos canifrons ingrami, 22 cm. / 8.66 in. Fairly COMMON in open habitats, secondary forest and farmland. One of my targets for the trip, and saw many closer but raising a camera seemed to spook them off.
Heilongtan Park, near Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China.
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Special train pulled by M61 017 with FMK-007 railway diagnostics wagon.
The Hungarian State Railways had a total of 20 NOHABs in its fleet. These engines quickly became iconic since these were pretty much the only railway equipment in the socialist country which arrived from outside of the Iron Curtain. Their active career ended in the early 2000s at MÁV, 6 units got to live a happy retirement at various private companies and foundations.
Number 17 stayed the closest to the national carrier; it belongs to the infrastructure maintenance subsidiary of the company. Interestingly, it also got modified a bit to be better suited for such works: it received an electrical train heating generator (originally NOHABs had steam train heating), and the mechanics modified the gear ratios, so it can reach a whopping 120 km/h top speed instead of the factory-default 105.
Not that they made good use of that today: railway line 142 is a disgrace amongst the Hungarian lines from a track-condition point of view. From Kőbánya-Kispest to Lajosmizse the single-track line is officially rated for 60 km/h speeds, but for more than a decade, there has been a 40 km/h "temporary" restriction in effect on the most often used, suburban part of the line.
I wonder what kind of result did the measurements yield... There is an age-old story about another track diagnostics unit automatically engaging the emergency brakes during recording measurements on the H8 suburban line. Why? The track conditions were so bad, the diagnostics unit actually "thought" it got derailed :)
Diagnostic White-eyed Foliage-Gleaner, Barranqueiro-de-olho-branco, Automolus leucophthalmus, 20 Cm / 7.9 in. UNCOMMON. Low to mid-levels of forest and tall second growth. Brief look at this bird though dense foliage.
Serra Bonita, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Eastern Plantain-eater, Crinifer zonurus, 50cm. / 20in. UNCOMMON in a wide range of woodland and grassland, cultivation and gardens.
Kisumu, Western, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Light-vented Bulbul, Pycnonotus sinensis sinensis, 19 cm. / 7.48 in. COMMON in forest edges, scrub, mangroves and gardens.
Grounds of CITIC Hotel, Beijing, Beijing Municipal Metropolitan Region, China.
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Diagnostic Yellowhead, Mohua, Mohoua ochrocephalis, 15 cm. / 5.9 in. RARE ENDEMIC bird of tall, native forest, especially Red Beech on the Southern South Island.
Ulva Island, Patterson Inlet. Rakiura (Stewart) Island, Southland Region, New Zealand.
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Diagnostic Black-faced Bunting, Emberiza spodocephala sordida, 14 cm. / 5.5 in. COMMON in forests woodlands, reed beds and scrub. Little black showing on the face, but the tail margins, back patterns and the bill are diagnostic, on migration.
Eri Hi Lake, Dali, Yunnan Province, China.
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As these places go the University Diagnostic Center in Tampa is nicely appointed.
The receptionist was very good with the Trumpster who loudly complained that wearing a mask in a medical facility was "overkill" and the usual crap about the whole corona thing being just a lie to make his hero look bad. Scary times.
Diagnostic Black-chested Snake-Eagle, Circaetus pectoralis, 65 cm / 26 in. COMMON resident, widespread in bushed and wooded grassland. Distant bird.
Tsavo East National Park, Coast, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Spanish Eagle, Spanish Imperial Eagle, Aquila adalberti, 72 - 85cm. / 28 - 33.5in. ; WS 180 - 210cm. / 70.9 - 82.7in. Very RARE breeder in C. and SW Spain.
Sierra de Andujar Parque Natural, Jaén COunty, Andalucia, Spain.
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Quest Diagnostics PC-12 N399SA is about to be refueled on the Wilson Air Center ramp at Memphis International. The single engine prop is heading to Dallas Love field (DAL).
Diagnostic Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Eurillas latirostris latirostris, 18cm. / 7in. Very COMMON in highland forests, forest strips and wooded gardens.
Kakamega Forest Nature Reserve, Kakamega, Western, Kenya.
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Diagnostic White-Naped Honeyeater, Melithreptus lunatus, 10.5 - 15.5 cm. / 4.1 - 6.1 in. COMMON and ENDEMIC honeyeater found in open forests, woodlands, frequenting canopy.
Queensland, Australia.
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Diagnostic, Male Bull-headed Shrike, Lanius bucephalus bucephalus, 19 - 20 cm. / 7.5 - 7.8 in. COMMON resident in open forest and cultivated fields. Fog today was too much for me.
Nemuro Citizen's Forest, Nemuro, Hokkaido, Japan
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Diagnostic Japanese Cormorant, Phalacrocorax capillatus, 84 cm. / 33.1 in. WS; 137 cm. / 54 in. Locally COMMON resident on rocky coasts. Adult at right, immature on the left.
Nosappu Point, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Diagnostic Chopi Blackbird, Grauna, Gnorimopsar chopi chopi, 25 cm / 9.8 in. Cultivation, pastures, fields and marsh.
Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Golden-naped Tanager, Tangara ruficervix, 13cm. / 5in. Canopy and borders of sub-tropical forest and woodland on both slopes.
Refugio Paz de las Aves, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Chinese Egret, Egretta eulophotes, 65 cm. / 25.6 in. RARE visitor to coastal mudflats and estuaries.
Ada River, Kunigama, Okinawa, Japan.
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Diagnostic Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Phylloscopus proregulus, 9 cm. / 3.5 in. COMMON, seasonal migrant in sub-alpine forests up to tree-line. Winters in lowland scrub and woodland.
Heilongtan Park, Yunnan Province, China.
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Diagnostic Yellow Pansy Butterfly, Junonia hierta cebrene, 40 - 45 mm / 1.6 - 1.8 in. This is a male. Widespread and COMMON in the eastern half of the country, found in parks and gardens, flatlands and hillsides.
Motapi Road, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
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Diagnostic Violet-eared Waxbill, Granatina granatina, 13 cm. Near-ENDEMIC. COMMON year-round resident and local nomad in acacia woodland, savanna and dry thickets. A special target for the trip!
Motabi Road, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
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Diagnostic Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, Piculus rivolii, Carpintero dorsicarmesi, 24 - 25.5 cm / 9.45 - 10.04 in. Upper sub-tropical and temperate forest and woodland on both slopes.
Puembo Bird Gardens, Quito, Pichincha Administrative Region, Ecuador.
Diagnostic Whiskered Tern, Marsh Tern, Chlidonias hybrida, 23 - 25 cm. / 9.1 - 9.8 in. Fairly COMMON at sea and on shallow freshwater wetlands, flooded salt marsh and estuaries in all but the most arid interior of Australia.
Kiama Pelagic, out of Kiama, New South Wales, Australia.
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti participating in Italian
Space Agency ASI’s Acoustic Diagnostics experiment aboard the International Space Station.
This experiment uses special headphones containing a small device that records the response of the inner ear to study the effect of microgravity and background noise on astronaut hearing. Detecting hearing loss in space will both help take care of astronauts’ health during long missions and improve a device for testing hearing more accurately in any noisy environment on Earth.
ID: iss067e183716
Credit: ESA/NASA
Diagnostic Female Little Woodpecker, Picapauzinho-anāo, Veniliornis passerinus passerinus, 15 cm / 5.9 in. COMMON. Second sub-species of this woodpecker seen on the trip. Forest edge, woodland, savanna, second growth, mangrove, river islands, plantations and gardens.
Lajeda dos Beija Flores, PN Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil.
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