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Diagnostic Sharpe's Drongo, Dicrurus sharpei, 19cm. / 7.5 in. Recently spilt from Square-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus ludwigii and found in interior forest and edges.
Kakamega Forest, Vihiga, Western, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Chilean Flicker, Colaptes pitius, 30 - 33 cm. / 12 - 13 in. Widespread in central and southern Chile. Typical flicker behaviors. Prefers open beech forest or forest edge, agricultural areas with adjacent tall trees and taller matorral. Appear to be shy birds.
Antillanca, Puyehue National Park, Los Lagos Region, Chile. ©bryanjsmith 2017.
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Diagnostic Retz's Helmetshrike, Prionops retzii, 22 cm / 8.66 in. COMMON resident in woodland, including miombo, and riparian forest.
Limpopo Valley, South Africa.
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Diagnostic 'Apapane, Himatione sanguinea, 13 cm. / 5.25 in. ENDEMIC in forest canopy favoring 'ohi'a lehua tree flowers.
Waimea Canyon, Kaua'i, Hawai'ian Islands, USA.
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A diagnostic feature of Grey Plover is black armpits, but they are usually only visible in flight. This individual obligingly flashed its armpits for this photo. Grey Plovers breed on low tundra around the high Arctic. In America this same species is known as Black-bellied Plover as in breeding plumage the black is more extensive and striking than on Golden Plovers. But even in America most birders see them in grey winter plumage, so Black-armpitted Plover would be more appropriate. And incidentally, the proper term for armpits is axillaries, so most bird books describe them as having black axillaries. They winter around the coasts of every continent where it does not freeze in winter, but are often at quite low density. I often hear their characteristic call before I see them (listen to it here): www.xeno-canto.org/678452 Peak numbers in Britain occur in autumn decreasing to a plateau in winter suggesting that many birds stop off en route to other wintering areas. The number wintering in Britain is about 34,000, compared with about 400,000 Golden Plover. But many Golden Plovers spend the winter on farmland as well as estuaries, whereas Grey Plovers are very rare away from the coast. The scientific name is Pluvialis squatarola, given by Linnaeus from a Venetian name for a type of Plover (Sgatarola). In the first bird book in English (1678) John Ray called it the Squatarola or Grey Plover, and that name has been with us ever since. Unlike most shorebirds in winter, they don't flock with their own kind, but you see odd ones scattered thinly on muddy and sandy shores. I don't find them easy to photograph as they are often miles away on the mudflats, but I took this one roosting on rocks at high tide on the Northumberland coast.
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: iss067e183592_alt
Credit: ESA/NASA
Diagnostic Red-eyed Vireo, Vireo olivaceous, 6 in / 15.24 cm. COMMON and widespread in forests, migrants in almost any wooded habitat.
Sieur de Monte Spring, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, Maine, USA.
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Diagnostic Little Lorikeet, Glossopsitta pusilla, 16 - 18 cm. / 6.2 - 7.1 in. COMMON and ENDEMIC. They inhabit tall open forests, woodlands, orchids, parks and urban trees. Above the car park at a lunch stop.
Queensland, Australia.
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Diagnostic Meyer's Parrot, Poicephalus meyeri saturatus, 23cm. / 9in. COMMON and widespread in woodlands, brush lands, scrub and cultivation.
Harambee Road, Kisumu, Western Region, Kenya.
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Diagnostic Malagasy Sacred Ibis, Threskiornis bernieri bernieri, 70 - 85 cm. / 27.6 - 33.5 in. RARE and THREATENED regional ENDEMIC. Largely restricted to coastal mudflats, estuaries and mangrove swamps.
Betsikoba Delta, Madagascar.
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Diagnostic Des Murs' Wiretail, Sylviorthorhynchus desmursii, 24 cm. / 9.5 in. (including tail which is shown here and is twice as long as the body). Dense bamboo thickets, Shy and very difficult to see, then when spotted quickly darts around among the thick cover. Very quick little bird!
Chinquihue, Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region, Chile.
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Diagnostic Female Helmeted Manakin, Soldadinho, Antilophia galeata, 14 cm / 5.5 in. Low levels in riparian habitat, palm groves and woodland. Stayed in the cover and canopy shadows.
Bahia, Brazil.
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[ ALL TAG AND OTHER DESCRIPTIVE DATA RE THIS IMAGING OF TINY CREATURES (WHO, MY RESEARCH INDICATES, FLED WEIMAR GERMANY DURING THE DECLINE) REVEALED TO BE LIVING INSIDE THE "CURSED FUJI" HAVE BEEN LOST THANKS TO SOME FREAKO FLICKR ERROR. GRRRR ARGH. ;)
THE FLICKR UPLOADR IS NEITHER COMPELLING NOR SEXY ENOUGH FOR ME TO SPEND AN ENTURE FRIDAY EVENING WITH. OOPS. THAT PERHAPS MERITED A 'CANDOR ALERT' ;-}
PROST.
Diagnostic Tufted Tit-Tyrant, Anairetes parulus, 11 cm. / 4.25 in. In shrubby clearings and temperate forest on both slopes, ranging up into shrubby paramo. Diagnostic image showing the crest on top of the head, if you squint. And you can also see the very small eye.
Antisanilla Ecological Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Fan-tailed Widowbird, Euplectes axillaris zanzibaricus, 15 cm. / 6 in. COMMON and widespread. Marshy areas and wet grassland from sea level to 2300 m. / 7546 ft.
Kisumu, Kenya
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Diagnostic Male GuiraTanager, Saira-de-papo-preto, Hemithraupis guira, 13 cm / 5.1in. LESS FREQUENT. Borders of humid forest, woodland and riparian habitat up to 1500 m / 4922 ft., locally higher.
PN Chapada Diamantina, Lechos, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Puna Teal, Spatula puna, 45 - 49 cm. / 17.5 - 19 in. Restricted to altiplano habitats. Very wary birds.
Lago Chungara, Parinacota Province, Chile.
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Diagnostic Ticking Doradito, Pseudocolopterx citreola, 12.5 cm. / 4.9 in. Unfortunately, this RARE bird was only seen from some distance away. Inhabits marshes and wet riparian areas. Requires rushes and cattails adjacent to wet willow thickets along streams.
Laguna El Peral Nature Reserve, Valparaiso Region, Chile.
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Diagnostic Collared Falconet, Microhierax caerulescens burmanicus, 15 cm. / 5.9 in. Extremely RARE resident. Hunts from open trees like a small swallow.
Yunnan, China
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Diagnostic Pink-legged Graveteiro, Acrobata, Acrobatornis fonsecai, 14 cm / 5.9 in. RARE ENDEMIC with a small, limited range. Cacao plantations shaded by taller trees.
Camacan, Bahia, Brazil.
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Diagnostic Yellow-plumed Honeyeater, Lichenostomus ornatus, 14 - 18.5 cm. / 5.5 - 7.3 in. COMMON and ENDEMIC. Found in mallee and semi-arid eucalyptus woodlands.
Dryandra State Forest, Western Australia.
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Ovipositing on the leaves of the host plant Sundial Lupine (Lupinus perennis).
The signature frosting on the hindwing near the abdomen and the tiny dark eye-spot (diagnostic for the species) are prominently visible in this shot.
Diagnostic Great Bustard, Otis tarda tarda, 90 - 105cm; F 75 - 85cm. Breeds on dry fat and large, open plains, preferring natural steppe but accepting of arable fields if undisturbed. Male standing center left.
A target bird. Unfortunately, we were unable to approach any closely.
Nossa Senhor de Aracelis, Castro Verde County, Beja, Portugal.
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Diagnostic Black Cuckooshrike, Campephaga lava, 18 21 cm / 7.1 - 8.3 in. Fairly COMMON resident in mature woodland and forest margins. The red gape stripe is diagnostic though is more commonly yellow in color.
Skukuza Golf Course, Skukuza, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.
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Here I have included the older subspecific name of Rosario Rattlesnake (Crotalus enyo furvus) within the Baja California Rattlesnake (C. enyo) complex. Currently this is a sunk subspecies that once was diagnostic by having a darker dorsal coloration as well as facial scalation morphology and less ventral scales. The color of this species is extremely variable, this trait cannot be relied upon as a characteristic. They occur from the vicinity of Cabo Colonet in the north to El Rosario in the south in State of Baja California, Mexico.
Diagnostic Female Malagasy Harrier, Circus macrosceles, 54 - 59 cm. / 21 - 23.2 in. Regional RARE ENDEMIC and ENDANGERED. Marshy edges of lakes and rivers rice paddies and grasslands. Seen on the final day of our trip on the way to the airport!
Lake Alarobia, Antananarivo Ivato Airport, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
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Diagnostic Bronze Shag, Stewart Island Shag, Leucocarbo chalconotus, 68 cm. / 26.8 in. Locally COMMON ENDEMIC bird of coastal waters off southeastern South Island and Stewart Island. Diagnostic shot as we were quickly departing from the harbour, but the light was good!
Bluff Harbor, Southland Region, South Island, New Zealand.
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Of the seven North American Chickadee species, this is the only one that has a white supercilium. If you can make out this feature (well shown in this image), it's diagnostic for the ID within this family. Sexes are not distinguishable in the field. There are many juvies around at this time, and I believe this one to be a juvenile bird based on the visible "feather fluff" and the irregular pattern edges of the white supercilium... adults' patterns are more crisp. This bird is showing typical feeding practice. They regularly pinon a large seed between their toes to attack it with their bills.
IMG_5484; Mountain Chickadee
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon Portugal
Charles Correa Associates designed this research and diagnostic centre located in Lisbon. It is a state-of-the-art facility guided by some of the best scientist in the world. The site, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, is steeped in history. It is the site where Henry the Navigator, Vasco de Gama and other great Portuguese left on their journeys into the unknown—a perfect metaphor for the discoveries of contemporary science today. The 3 units that constitute the project are:
•the largest for the doctors and scientist,
•the second for the theatre, the exhibition hall, the foundation offices, etc,
•the third is an open-air amphitheatre for the city.
They have been arranged to create a 125m long pathway leading diagonally across the site, towards the open seas. This pathway is ramped up at a gentle slope of 1:20, so as you ascend, you see only sky ahead of you. At the end of the ramp are two stone monoliths, straight from the quarry. When you reach the highest point, you begin to see a large body of water, which seemingly connects (i.e. without any visual break) to the ocean beyond. In the centre of this water body, just below the surface of the water, is an oval shaped object—made of stainless steel and slightly convex, so that it reflects the blue sky and passing clouds above.
Diagnostic Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, Colaptes rivolii brevirostris, 24 - 25 cm. / 9.5 - 10 in. Upper sub-tropical and temperate forest and woodland on both slopes, also borders and trees in clearings.
Puembo Birding Garden, Puembo, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
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L'anoressia nervosa viene diagnosticata nel 90-95 % dei casi a pazienti di sesso femminile.
I criteri standard raccomandati dai manuali psichiatrici per fare diagnosi di anoressia nervosa sono attualmente: una magrezza estrema (non costituzionale) con rifiuto di mantenere il peso al di sopra di una soglia minima di peso ritenuta normale (il peso del soggetto deve essere sotto l'85% del peso previsto in base all'età ed alla altezza e/o l'indice di massa corporea - BMI -inferiore a 17,5)
una forte paura di ingrassare anche in presenza di un evidente sottopeso
una preoccupazione estrema per il peso e l'aspetto fisico, che includa sia una alterazione del vissuto corporeo, sia una importanza eccessiva data al peso nei riguardi della propria autostima, o ancora il rifiuto di ammettere la gravità delle proprie condizioni fisiologiche nei pazienti di sesso femminile, un'amenorrea (sospensione del ciclo mestruale) che dati da almeno tre mesi.
spesso, ed è difficile accorgersene, i soggetti affetti da anoressia nervosa sono bugiardi con se stessi e con gli altri e fanno di tutto per nascondere questa loro malattia. Non è necessario avere tutti i parametri, in alcuni casi ne basta anche uno solo per diagnosticare la malattia...
Le cause che portano allo sviluppo di una anoressia nervosa sono multiple, ovvero esistono delle cause predisponenti di natura sia biologica, che sociale, che psicologica su cui si sovrappongono ad un certo punto dei fattori scatenanti che portano allo sviluppo della malattia.
Tra i fattori predisponenti è importante tenere presente il fatto di avere un familiare che soffre, o ha sofferto, di un disturbo del comportamento alimentare, il fatto di crescere in una famiglia dove esiste una oggettiva difficoltà a comunicare ed esprimere le emozioni, il fatto di appartenere ad un gruppo sociale "a rischio" per il controllo del peso (ad es. ballerine/i, ginnaste/i, cicliste/i, ecc.), il fatto di vivere in un'area urbana di un paese occidentale dove la magrezza viene enfatizzato come un valore sociale positivo, il fatto di soffrire di un disturbo della personalità.
Tra i fattori scatenanti, il più noto è il fatto di sottoporsi a diete ferree, e poi c'è sicuramente la difficoltà ad adattarsi ai cambiamenti e agli eventi stressanti che la vita impone. In questo senso possono essere considerati fattori scatenanti l'anoressia nervosa un fallimento amoroso, una bocciatura a scuola, un licenziamento dal lavoro, la perdita di un caro, ecc.
Alle volte la volontà di non mangiare non è correlata al fattore estetico o alla magrezza: persone che subiscono continuamente delusioni in campo affettivo, lavorativo, scolastico o sociale si sentono impotenti, incapaci di controllare la propria vita ottenendo ciò che vorrebbero, schiavi degli altri. Il cibo è una delle poche cose che possono controllare, e per dimostrare di essere forti e di avere il controllo devono dimostrare che potrebbero non essere dipendenti dal cibo, di poterne farne a meno, poiché il mangiare è visto come un'ulteriore schiavitù. Il riuscire a combattere la fame e rifiutare il cibo potrebbe essere una vittoria che accresce l'autostima.
Diagnostic Amami Thrush, Zoothera major, 30 cm. / 11.8 in. RARE resident in dense sub-tropical forest. Normally shy, skulking in dense cover.
Amami Nature Forest, Tatsugo, Amami, Kagoshima, Japan.
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Diagnostic Northern Screamer, Chauna chavaria, 84 - 91 cm / 33 - 36 in. RARE. Huge, ungainly bird found locally in more remote marshy areas, lake margins and on river islands of the eastern lowlands. Both sexes have a long, slender "horn" rising from the forehead as seen in this diagnostic image. We were fortunate that among our group leaders was Robert Ridgely (Author of "The Birds of Ecuador"), who was very excited to find this unexpected member of the family Anhimidae at this site.
La Tembladera Wetlands near Santa Rosa, El Oro Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Northern Fantail, Rhipidura rufiventris, 16 - 18.5 cm. / 6 - 7 in. COMMON. Frequents open forest, rainforest margins and mangrove habitats.
Flecker Botanical Gardens, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
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Diagnostic 'Akepa, Loxops coccineus, 4 - 5 in / 10.16 - 12.7 cm. UNCOMMON and ENDANGERED. An ENDEMIC found in native montane forest above 4,500 ft / 1371.6 m. Probably extinct on Mau'i and is extinct on O'ahu.
Lifelist #5355
Halalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, Hawaiian Islands, United States.
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Diagnostic Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant, Agriornis montana, 25 cm. / 10 in. Widespread in Andes and also seen at lower elevations. Often in altiplano villages on buildings, wires, etc. Natural habitat is rocky slopes near grassland, prefers to perch on rocks instead of bushes.
Farellones, Region Metropolitana De Santiago, Chile.
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Diagnostic Straight-billed Earthcreeper, Ochetorhynchus ruficaudus, Upucerthis rufucaudus, 16 - 19 cm. / 6 - 7.5 in. COMMON in the north, less common central. Rocky slopes with scattered shrubbery. This bird danced around and was very shy.
Atacama Desert, Lluta Valley, Arica Y Parinacota Region, Chile.
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Diagnostic features: small size, short pronotum with sharply indented side keels, clubbed antennae (male), thickened antennae (female). Colour & pattern variable, but usually 'busy' with multi-coloured stripes & blotches. Like the field grasshopper, males have red colouration on the abdomen, but are much smaller & the clubbed antennae are distinctive.
The main picture was taken at The Ercall, Shrops, in 2007 with my first digital camera, a 6mp Sony H2 superzoom. It is still the best shot I've taken of the male's antennae.
The new vehicular form of Soundwave rolled across the Cybertronic landscape while the Decepticon ran internal diagnostics, checking on the system status of his new features. This was a background system function as Soundwave needed to place his focus on his environment, an environment that was hostile indeed. At every bend, Soundwave was under threat of being detected by one of the hordes of Vehicons that roamed the planet and he was not so certain that his communication tower mode would fool his enemy a second time. He had to complete the self-diagnostic as soon as he could so that he would be able to correct any issues that he would identify in order for him to have a fully functioning form. Soundwave needed a fully functioning body to ensure that he was able to complete his primary mission: acquiring the necessary equipment and supplies to deliver his master, the earth-bound original Megatron, a new form.
Back on Earth, the once mighty Megatron, the tyrannical, legendary commander of the Decepticon force, had now been reduced to transport duties with an alternate form of a rundown earthen eighteen-wheel truck. Forced by the time disturbance to change his form in an effort to permanently rid himself of the vile abomination, the maniacal essence of Galvatron that had plagued Megatron's conscience for a questionable number of years, Megatron eventually found himself at the mercy of Cobra Commander. The human commander of the terrorist organisation known as Cobra Command had formed a treaty of sorts with the earthbound Decepticon forces, a treaty where trust between the two factions was tenuous at best. Eventually Cobra Commander had his longtime suspicion confirmed; Megatron had plotted treason! Cobra Commander's retribution was swift and brutal and it left the Decepticon leader crippled. Cobra Commander had commissioned a new body for Megatron, a body that was purposefully incomplete, leaving Megatron in perpetual pain and constantly vulnerable. Megatron was taken from the Cobra-Decepticon compound and forced to run endless menial transport duties at the beckon call of Cobra.
Stretching far longer back than Cobra's alliance with the Decepticons was a Decepticon alliance with Zartan. While Cobra was loosely aware of this potentially treacherous alliance, Cobra had thus far been unsuccessful in stopping it, much to the delight of both Megatron and Zartan alike. It was through this relationship that the designs of Megatron's ultimate form was designed; a perfect marriage of Transformer and human technology that led to the perfect technorganic design. This ultimate form would forever rid Megatron of the burden of his eternal bond with the insane essence of Galvatron, born of the time disturbance and allow Megatron a vessel to rise to power once again. Scrapper, the former leader of the Decepticon faction known as the Constructicons, had developed with the aid of Zartan and his cohorts, the schematics for Megatron's ultimate body that Soundwave now carried within him. There was one final component that was missing, a component that could only be found in the lair of the diabolical associate of the Tripredacus Council, Tarantulus. All records would show that the vile Tarantulus had left Cybertron near the turn of the earthen millennium, in seek of mastery of an ancient power called the Force in a galaxy far, far away. Soundwave had no evidence to support that Tarantulus had returned to Cybertron and expected his lair to be vacant, but dangerous nevertheless.
One of the problems that Soundwave had discovered in his orbit of his home planet was that the face of Cybertron had changed dramatically since he was last there. It was evident through his orbital analysis that the son of Megatron had sanctioned an unprecedented amount of terraforming. This was not the same Cybertron that the Decepticon communicator was familiar with and tracking down the lair of Tarantulus could take some time. Soundwave realized that the first thing he must do is find a reference point that he could scaffold his search around.
The location that Soundwave chose to use as navigational point of reference was the city of Kaon, home of the infernal Smelting Pit along with the notorious Decepticon fortress Kolkular. According to the information that Soundwave had gathered while in orbit, he currently found himself three days worth of travel away from the Decepticon hub. The lair of Tarantulus was subterranean, located deep below the outskirts of the Decepticon city. Soundwave knew that Tarantulus had built his lair close to the Smelting Pit and had diverted some of the incredible amount of energy used to power the Pit to fuel his home. Soundwave could use his information to his benefit on arrival.
The Decepticon knew that there was a directly relationship between his proximity to Kaon and his risk of being discovered. Kaon was the home of the Decepticon empire and although the entire planet was a threat, nowhere was more treacherous that the Decepticon hub. Megatron's Generals controlled their millions of drones from the hub and activity in and out of the city was constant. Soundwave would have to be on full alert to successfully avoid detection, a considerable request when accepting the fact that he was so very new to his body. However, he knew that there was no time to lose.
Diagnostic New Zealand Pipit, Pihoihoi, Anthus novaeseelandidae, 19 cm. / 7.48 in. UNCOMMON ENDEMIC in open habitats from coast to high alpine.
Near Waiokuru off Highway 1, Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand.
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Diagnostic Wrybill, Ngutuparore, Anarhynchus frontalis, 20 - 21 cm. / 7.8 - 8.3 in. VULNERABLE ENDEMIC found along estuaries of the North Island. Unique bill that bends to the right. While feeding on mudflats as the tide was receding 350 - 400 meters distant.
Puketutu Island, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand.
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Diagnostic Yellow-browed Sparrow, Ammodramus auriferons, 13 cm. / 5 in. COMMON and widespread in grassy areas of the eastern lowlands. Even though we only spotted this single.
Valladolid, Loja Province, Ecuador.
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Diagnostic Cinereous Conebill, Conirostrum cinereum littorale, 10 - 11 cm. / 4 - 4.5 in. COMMON in oasis valleys of the north and pre-puna shrub zone. Found in shrubby areas, olive plantations, gardens, riparian scrub and tamarugo forests.
Chaca Valley, Arica Y Parinacota Region, Chile.
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