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• Obi Cuscus Phalanger rothschildi

  

  The Obi cuscus is an arboreal marsupial from islands in North Maluku. A survey around Obi recorded fruit in its diet and trees used as nesting sites.

• Bronzy Jacamar Galbula leucogastra

  

  This jacamar has a long bill and metallic green-blue and bronze plumage. It waits on branches and catches flying insects.

• Asian Garden Dormouse Eliomys melanurus

  

  The Asian garden dormouse has a dark mask around its eyes, large ears, and a bushy tail. It is nocturnal and solitary, and eats insects and other small animals.

• Chinese Barbet Psilopogon faber

  

  This barbet is endemic to southern China. It lives in evergreen broadleaf and mixed conifer-broadleaf forests in middle and lower mountains, and also occurs at forest edges and in more open woodland.

• Aders' Duiker Cephalophus adersi

  

  This forest antelope has a reddish-brown body, gray nape and a white band from rump to hind legs. Records are from East African coastal forest and scrub, with activity mainly by day.

• Bismarck Crow Corvus insularis

  

  The Bismarck Crow is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago off northeastern New Guinea. It has glossy black plumage and pale blue eyes and searches for varied food on the ground.

• Harbor seal Phoca vitulina

  A rounded head and short front flippers distinguish this seal. It has ears, but no external ear flaps.

• Okarito Brown Kiwi Apteryx rowi

  The Okarito Brown Kiwi is a nocturnal kiwi of lowland forest on New Zealand's South Island. It has pale grey-brown, streaked feathers and a long bill.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Green-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus zambesiae

  It is widespread across southern Africa, with isolated populations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Its back and wings are olive green, and it mainly eats insects found on twigs.

• Dong Bac Trident Bat Aselliscus dongbacanus

  This bat is known from limestone karst in northeastern Vietnam. The original description named it Aselliscus dongbacana; this entry uses the current Mammal Diversity Database spelling, Aselliscus dongbacanus.

• Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba

  In breeding plumage, the Pigeon Guillemot is black with white wing patches and bright red feet. It dives for food near rocky shores.

• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys velutinus

  The velvety fat-tailed opossum has been recorded in Brazil’s Cerrado and has a tail whose thickness changes seasonally.

• Short-billed Greenbul Xanthomixis zosterops

  This Xanthomixis is endemic to Madagascar and lives in humid evergreen forest. The source also uses names such as Spectacled Tetraka; this entry retains the pool label Short-billed Greenbul.

• White-eared Titi Plecturocebus donacophilus

  The Bolivian titi lives in forests in Bolivia and Brazil. Its long hind legs and tail help it balance as it moves.

• Marquesan Kingfisher Todiramphus godeffroyi

  The Marquesan Kingfisher was recorded on Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands by a 2011 survey. In forest it eats insects and small lizards and nests in tree cavities.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.

• Monotonous Lark Mirafra passerina

  The Monotonous Lark is a ground-foraging bird of dry scrub and woodland. The Namibian account describes it as solitary or in pairs.

• Borneo Gibbon Hylobates muelleri

  The Borneo Gibbon is an arboreal primate of Borneo's forests. It has no tail, gray-brown fur, and long arms used to travel among trees.

• Amazonian Motmot Momotus momota

  The Amazonian Motmot has a green body, orange underparts, a black eye mask, and a blue crown. It sits on forest perches and may wag its tail from side to side.

• Irrawaddy squirrel Callosciurus pygerythrus

  The Irrawaddy squirrel occurs from South Asia into northern Southeast Asia and is found in places with both forest and agriculture.

• Andean Avocet Recurvirostra andina

  This waterbird has a long, upturned black bill. It is seen in pairs or small groups at lakes and streams in the Andes at 3,000–4,000 m.

• Small Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) elater

  This jerboa lives in dry areas of Turkey and western Asia. It has a sandy back, white underside, and black tail tip, and moves by hopping on long hind legs at night.

• Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculatus

  This bird uses the high canopy of humid Central American forests and mainly eats fruit. Males have three long wattles around the bill.