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• South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) paraguayana

  

  The South-eastern Woolly Mouse Opossum is a small climbing marsupial with long, dense fur. It eats insects and fruit, and occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern South America.

• Arctic Loon Gavia arctica

  

  A waterbird that breeds on large lakes in northern Europe and Asia. Its breeding plumage is boldly patterned, and outside the breeding season it also uses sheltered coastal waters.

• Boodie Bettongia lesueur

  

  The boodie is a burrowing member of the kangaroo family that searches for plants and underground fungi.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• Northern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus leucogenys

  

  The northern white-cheeked gibbon is a tailless Southeast Asian ape that moves from branch to branch using its long arms.

• Vanuatu Megapode Megapodius layardi

  

  The Vanuatu Megapode has bare red skin on its face and yellow legs. It lays eggs in burrows and uses heat from volcanic soil or sun-warmed ground.

• North Andean Huemul Hippocamelus antisensis

  The North Andean huemul moves across steep Andean slopes on short, strong legs. The male’s branched antlers and dark Y-shaped facial mark are distinctive.

• Grauer's Broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri

  This forest bird is bright green and has a broad bill. It occurs in montane forest in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.

• Pardine Genet Genetta pardina

  The Pardine Genet is a nocturnal genet of western African moist forests and riparian woodland. It is recorded as an omnivore that eats small mammals, insects, and fruit.

• Western Black-headed Batis Batis erlangeri

  This entry follows the 2005 treatment of Batis erlangeri as a separate species. Males have a dark crown and back; females have a maroon breast-band.

• Vieira's Titi Plecturocebus vieirai

  Plecturocebus vieirai occurs in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará. Its original description reports a pale gray-brown coat and white facial markings, while the ICMBio species sheet describes humid forest and streamside sites with buriti palms.

• Scarlet Ibis Eudocimus ruber

  The Scarlet Ibis lives in groups in wetlands of northern South America. Adults are bright scarlet, while chicks are dark.

• Hooded skunk Mephitis macroura

  The hooded skunk ranges from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America.

• Red-kneed Dotterel Erythrogonys cinctus

  The Red-kneed Dotterel is a small plover with a black head and breast band and reddish legs. After heavy rain it may move inland to breed, returning toward the coast as wetlands dry.

• Bornean Slow Loris Nycticebus borneanus

  Nycticebus borneanus is a slow loris of central and southern Borneo, in Indonesian Kalimantan. EAZA material records an observation in dipterocarp forest in a protected forest area and describes its dark facial markings.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat Otomops wroughtoni

  Wroughton’s free-tailed bat is poorly recorded in South and Southeast Asia. It is considered an open-space, high-flying forager, and a 2025 study recorded its calls in western India.

• White-headed Vanga Artamella viridis

  The White-headed Vanga is endemic to Madagascar. The male has a white head and underside with green-glossed black upperparts, and searches for food on forest branches.

• Red-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur rufifrons

  The red-fronted brown lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur from Madagascar that mainly eats fruit and leaves.

• Pied Fantail Rhipidura javanica

  This fantail has black-and-white plumage and fans its tail as it moves. It is found in mangroves, coastal scrub, and riverside habitats.

• Four-toed hedgehog Atelerix albiventris

  A small, spiny-backed mammal of African grassland and woodland.

• Black-cheeked Ant Tanager Habia atrimaxillaris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 19 cm and a mass of 48.9 g, and gives lowland evergreen, streamside, and secondary forest as habitats. A 2023 study reports use of secondary forest for foraging and nesting on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and nearby forests.

• Javan Porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) javanica

  This porcupine lives on Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and nearby islands. Its back and sides look dark and speckled, while species-specific natural-history records remain limited.

• Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki

  The Yellow-legged Buttonquail is a ground-dwelling bird of open grasslands from India to East Asia. It eats both plant matter and small animals.