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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 Purple-throated Woodstar, Calliphlox mitchellii, 7 cm. / 2.25 in. Canopy and borders of foothill and sub-tropical forest and adjacent clearings.
Alambi, Near Nanegalito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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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 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 Beryl-spangled Tanager, Tangara nigroviridis cyanescens, 13.5 cm. / 5.25 in. COMMON and widespread in canopy and borders of sub-tropical forest and woodland on both slopes.
Tandayapa Road, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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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: iss067e183692
Credit: ESA/NASA
Diagnostic White-winged Cinclodes, Cinclodes atacamensis atacamensis, 23 cm. / 9.1 in. Ranges from 2500 - 5000 meters elevation, non-migratory, terrestrial birds closely associated with water. The poop on the rocks is from a colony of Vizcachas living at the sendero.
Sendero Las Cuevas, Lauca National Park, Arica Y Parinacota Region, Chile.
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Diagnostic Male Bluethroat (Red Spotted), Luscinia svecia svecia, 5.75 in. UNCOMMON and local breeder in patches of shrubby willows at tree line. Migrates East across the Bering Strait to winter in Asia.
Salmon Lake Campground, North of Nome, Alaska, USA.
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Diagnósticos Estéticos - Estructural 4 EDX
MIX Doble Exposición - Transfer-color
Doble Exposición color - ITPTV-MOD.
Selecc. DGV - EDX-DSCF4852.HS
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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 Common Potoo, Nyetibius griseus panamensis, 40cm / 16in. COMMON and widespread in forest edge and wooded areas to upper subtropics. Lousy timing, right after a rainstorm it had moved higher in the canopy to dry out.
Hotel Tinamú Birding Nature Reserve, Depatameinto de Caldas, Colombia.
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Diagnostic Ryukyu Minivet, Pericrocotus tegimae, 19 - 20 cm. / 7.5 - 7.9 in. Recently split from Ashy Minivet. COMMON resident in evergreen forest.
Tatsugo, Amami Nature Forest, Amami, Japan.
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Diagnostic Peruvian Meadowlark, Sturnella bellicosa albipes, 20 - 22 cm / 8 - 9 in. Locally COMMON in agricultural valleys of extreme northern Chile. Inhabits various open habitats such as beach stand, farmland, pastures, and shrubby native vegetation in oasis valleys.
Lluta River Mouth, Arica, Arica Y Parinacota Region, Chile.
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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 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 Red-tailed Bristlebill, Bleda syndactylus, 22cm. / 8.5in. Locally COMMON but shy in dense forest undergrowth.
Kakamega Forest Station, Kakamega, Western, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Female Red-winged Fairy-wren, Malurus elegans, 13.5 - 15 cm / 5.3 - 5.9 in. Endemic. The pair must have been protecting a nest site with the all noise and scolding going on!
Gardner River Inlet, Western Australia.
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An LL-290 undergoes diagnostic checks before launch.
NB Thanks to the Brickish Spacers Guild for this photo's composition, editing and laser pointer duties! The robot is courtesy of Peter Reid (Legoloverman).
Diagnostic Half-collared Kingfisher, Alcedo semitorquata semitorquata, 18 cm / 7.1 in. UNCOMMON resident and nomad at wooded streams, channels in large reed beds and coastal lagoons.
Abel Erasmus Pass, Limpopo Province, South Africa,
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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 Gray-hooded Attila, Grey-hooded Attila, Capitāo-de-saira, Attila rufus hellmayri, 20 cm / 7.9 in. ENDEMIC. Humid forest up to 1500 m.
A hiding Essex Skipper! (But nicely shoiwing the diagnostic black underside of the antenae tips). Taken at Mortimores Wood LNR, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK on the 18th July 2015.
Diagnostic Rufous-fronted Thornbird, Common Thornbird, Phacellodomus rufifrons, 16.5 cm. / 6.5 in. COMMON in secondary woodland and scrub, clearings with scattered trees. From a long 250 meters away and on tip-toes over a tall hedge. Handheld.
Botanic Gardens, Valladolid, Loja Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Amami Rabbit, Ryukyu Rabbit, Pentalagus furnessi. ENDANGERED endemic. Often called a "living fossil" because it is a remnant of ancient rabbit lineage that have all died out off the asian mainland and now are only found on two small islands of the Japan Archipelago. Mainly nocturnal. Habitat is between young and mature forest where there exists pampas grass to eat and mature trees for protection from predators.
Handheld through the vehicle windshield by light from the headlights.
Amami Natural Forest, Amami, Japan.
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Diagnostic Male Powerful Woodpecker, Campephilus pollens, 33.5 - 35.4 cm. / 13.25 - 14 in. UNCOMMON. SCARCE in sub-tropical and temperate forest and borders on both slopes.
Refugio Paz de las Aves, Nanegalito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Yellow-winged Blackbird, Agelaius chilies, 19-20 cm / 75.-8 in. Locally COMMON in marshes and adjacent fields or wetlands. Fluffed-up after a bath, there is only a tiny bit of yellow evident on the wing.
Humedal De Cartagena, San Antonio Province, Valparaiso Region, Chile.
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Diagnostic Yellow Bishop (Yellow), Cape Widowbird, Euplectes capensis, 15 - 18 cm / 5.9 - 7.1 in. COMMON resident in damp, grassy areas and heathlands.
East side False Bay, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
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Diagnostic Chukar Partridge, Alectoris chukar, 35.56 cm. / 14 in. Introduced from the Middle East. UNCOMMON and local on dry rocky canyon slopes with widely scattered grass and brush. Handheld.
Texas Creek Junction, Fremont County, Colorado, USA.
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Diagnostic Bat Falcon, Falco rufiularis, 24 - 28 cm/ 9.5 - 11 in. Widespread at edges of humid and deciduous forest and woodlands, in trees isolated by cleared land. Diagnostic shot in the rain.
Umbrellabird Lodge, Buenaventura Reserve near Piñas, El Oro Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Maroon-faced Parakeet, White-eared Parakeet, Tiriba-de-orelha-branca, Pyrrhura leucotis, 25 cm / 9.8 in. RARE. Humid forest and adjacent areas with tree stands.
Paris Farm, Bahia, Brazil.
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Perhaps the most visible diagnostic characteristic of the northern shoveler is its large spoon-shaped bill, which widens towards the tip and creates a shape unique among North American waterfowl. Male northern shovelers have an iridescent green head and neck, white chest and breast and chestnut belly and sides. They have a white stripe extending from the breast along the margin of the gray-brown back, and white flank spots. The wings have a gray-blue shoulder patch, which is separated from a brilliant green speculum by a tapered white stripe. The bill is black in breeding plumage and the legs and feet are orange. Female northern shovelers have a light brownish head with a blackish crown and a brownish speckled body. The upper wing coverts are grayish-blue, the greater secondary coverts are tipped with white and the secondaries are brown with a slight greenish sheen. The bill is olive green with fleshy orange in the gape area and speckled with black dots.
Diagnostic Rufous-brown Solitaire (Rufous-brown), Sabiá-castanho, Cichlopsis leucogenys leucogenys, 20 cm / 7.9 in. RARE. Arboreal in humid forest.
Serra Bonita, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Yellow Mongoose, Cynictis penicillata, 40 -60 cm / 15.7 - 23.6 in. Open habitats, short grassland and semi-desert scrub, coastal open areas; absent from dense vegetation and forest. Very long distance shot.
Dirkies Dorp area, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.
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Diagnostic shot of a Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant, Muscisaxicola rufivertex pallidicaps, 17 - 17.5 cm. / 6.7 - 6.9 in. Dry pre-puna with some taller stalks or bushes, Rocky slopes and agricultural fields. Turned out that this was the only RUNAGRTY we saw on the trip.
Lake Chungara, Parinacota Province, Chile.
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Diagnostic Masked Yellowthroat (Southern), Pia-cobra, Geothlypis aequinoctialis velata , 14 cm / 5.5 in. COMMON. Bushy and grassy fields, marshes and forest edges, often near water.
Val das Nascentes, Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
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Bone-chilling!
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of @NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” of a remarkable hand-shaped structure in space.
@nasachandraxray and #IXPE have both observed this pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, providing insights into how these objects are formed.
Image description: A composite image of a pulsar wind nebula, which strongly resembles a ghostly purple hand with sparkling fingertips. The three longest fingertips of the hand-shape point toward our upper right, or 1:00 on a clock face. There, a small, mottled, orange and yellow cloud appears to sparkle or glow like embers. This orange cloud is part of the remains of the supernova explosion that created the pulsar. The backdrop of stars was captured in infrared light.
#NASA #NASAIXPE #NASAChandra #Space #Telescopes #Nebula #Astronomy #SpaceTelescopes #Universe #ChandraXRayObservatory #NASAMarshall
Departing the Wilson Air Center ramp at Memphis in Quest Diagnostics N567QD. The Pilatus single engine is heading to Dallad Love Field.
Diagnostic Great Bustard, Otis tarda tarda, M. 90 - 105cm, F. 75 - 85cm.; WS. 210 - 240cm, 170 - 190cm. Dry, flat and large, open plains, preferably natural steppe, but accepting of undisturbed, arablel fields.
La Cumbre, Caceres County, Extremadura, Spain.
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Diagnostic Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker, Dictum cruentatum cruentatum, 9 cm / 3.5 in. Resident of Eastern Himalayan foothills in broadleaved forest and secondary growth. Handheld at quite a distance, surprised it was a shot free of obstructions.
Kaziranga National Park in the Central Range, Assam Province, India.
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