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• Gray-brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus griseorufus

  

  The gray-brown mouse lemur is a small lemur of dry scrub in southwestern and southern Madagascar. Its diet changes with the seasons.

• Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus

  

  A tiny bird of eucalyptus canopies, the Spotted Pardalote has a distinctive pattern of white spots. Adult males also show a red rump and yellow throat. It searches foliage for insects and sugary exudates.

• Ma's Night Monkey Aotus nancymai

  

  This nocturnal monkey occurs in seasonally flooded lowland forest in northeastern Peru. At night it searches the trees for fruit, flowers, nectar, and insects. The Mammal Diversity Database accepts Aotus nancymai, while the ADW species account uses A. nancymaae.

• Black-throated Robin Poecilodryas albonotata

  

  This robin inhabits montane forest on New Guinea. The male has bluish-gray plumage with a black face and throat.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Chihuahuan Meadowlark Sturnella lilianae

  

  This meadowlark is common in dry grasslands. It has pale brown, mottled upperparts and yellow underparts with a bold black V across the chest. It forages on the ground for seeds, grains, and insects.

• White-nosed coati Nasua narica

  A long-tailed coati that searches for insects with its snout close to the ground.

• Collared Puffbird Bucco capensis

  A forest bird with a cinnamon head, large bill, and a black collar across the neck and chest, it waits to ambush sizable prey.

• Canada lynx Lynx canadensis

  A wild cat with broad paws for moving through snow and black-tipped ear tufts.

• Short-tailed Nighthawk Lurocalis semitorquatus

  In Argentina, the Short-tailed Nighthawk is recorded flying above forest canopy and nearby open areas. The national account covers only a regional part of the species' range.

• Masoala Woolly Lemur Avahi mooreorum

  The Masoala woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur known from northeastern Madagascar. Its mottled back and reddish-brown tail are distinctive.

• Black-billed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus somaliensis

  This bird has glossy, blackish plumage and searches tree bark for arthropods. It occurs in eastern Africa in woodland, bushland and tree-lined places near water.

• Blanford's Jerboa Jaculus blanfordi

  Cream-colored fur above, a white underside and a black-and-white tail tuft distinguish this jerboa. It forages at night and excavates burrows in sandy ground across arid parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

• Scaly-breasted Cupwing Pnoepyga albiventer

  This small mountain bird has an almost absent tail and rounded wings. Nest observations in Sikkim found globular nests made mainly of moss and rootlets.

• Ornate Shrew Sorex ornatus

  This shrew inhabits low elevations, riparian grasslands, and brushy sites in California. It searches beneath leaf litter and rocks for insects and other invertebrates by day and night.

• Blackish Oystercatcher Haematopus ater

  The Blackish Oystercatcher occurs along the Pacific coast of South America. It searches rocky shores and beaches for shellfish and other prey and breeds near the coast.

• Nile Lechwe Kobus megaceros

  An antelope of seasonally flooded wetlands and a capable swimmer.

• Brown Oriole Oriolus szalayi

  This grey-brown bird has a dark facial patch and fine streaking on its head and underparts. The Raja Ampat account describes it in forest canopies and regrowth, alone or in pairs, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Baturite Porcupine Coendou baturitensis

  This porcupine is recorded from Ceará in northeastern Brazil. Its back has white-and-brown spines. A nighttime thermal-drone survey recorded it in an Atlantic Forest fragment at Mulungu within the Caatinga.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) lituratus

  This large fruit-eating bat has fur ranging from light to dark brown. It flies among trees at night and forages with other bats for fruit.

• Cordilleran Canastero Asthenes modesta

  This ground-dwelling bird is about 16 cm long and occurs in Argentina’s shrub steppes and rocky slopes. Adults have a yellow to orange throat spot, which juveniles lack.

• Indian Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros lankadiva

  This large leaf-nosed bat has fur ranging from pale cream through brown and orange to bright red. A Sri Lankan study included it among insect-eating bats recorded from natural cave populations.

• Little Yellow Flycatcher Erythrocercus holochlorus

  This small bird lives in coastal East African woodland, moving through the trees and often feeding in mixed-species flocks.