Images Dated 12th June 2010

Siberian Stonechat / Asian Stonechat - adult pair

Siberian Stonechat / Asian Stonechat - adult pair - male below - alarmed perched on a dry grass - territorial behaviour during the breeding time - June (Saxicola maurus ). meadow on a river bank - Ural Mountains - Siberia - Russia

© Andrey Zvoznikov / ardea.com

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Sikorsky HH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter

Pictured is a Sikorsky HH-60 MEDEVAC Black Hawk Helicopter being refuelled at Kandahar Airfield in 2010.
The HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) version of the UH-60 Black Hawk multi-mission helicopter.
Built by Sikorsky Aircraf for the US Army, the helicopter is designed to evacuate wounded troops from the battlefield.
Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Provence in Afghanistan was used by the RAF for combat operations from 2001 to 2014.
Part of Kandahar Airfield was known as RAF Kandahar, It operated RAF, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps aircraft and was one end of the "Air Bridge" that started in?RAF Brize Norton in the UK.
All other?ISAF?airborne forces were also based there.
Kandahar International Airport as it was called originally is located some 10 miles South-East of the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
It is the country's second international airport and one of its biggest military bases, it has the space for over two hundred military aircraft

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Icebergs, Disko Bay, Greenland

Greenland, Ilulissat, Blue ice of backlit iceberg calved from Eqip Glacier into Disko Bay on summer morning

© Paul Souders | WorldFoto

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