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• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus

  

  A sandpiper with dark upperparts and a white rump, seen mainly on passage and in winter in lowland wetlands in Hong Kong.

• Western Spotted Skunk Spilogale gracilis

  

  This black-and-white skunk is active at night in Washington and uses cover such as thickets and fallen wood.

• Mistletoebird Dicaeum hirundinaceum

  

  The Mistletoebird is widespread across Australia. Males have striking black, red, and white markings, and the birds use high tree canopies where mistletoe grows.

• Kozlov's Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Salpingotus) kozlovi

  

  This jerboa is recorded from deserts of southern and southeastern Mongolia and northern China. Mongolian samples show sex-related and geographic variation in skull size.

• Trinidad Motmot Momotus bahamensis

  

  This bird lives in Trinidad and Tobago. The regional guide records it in Trinidad's lowland evergreen forest and in Tobago's pastures and farms where trees remain.

• Buffy-sided Oryzomys Euryoryzomys lamia

  

  This rodent has few known records in central Brazil. It is documented in forest and in Cerrado environments.

• Chatham Petrel Pterodroma axillaris

  The Chatham Petrel breeds in the Chatham Islands, moves over the sea to feed, and nests in burrows in the ground.

• Buffy Saki Pithecia albicans

  The buffy saki occurs in Amazonas State in northern Brazil. It eats many fruits and can obtain seeds from fruits with hard coverings.

• House Crow Corvus splendens

  A crow of South Asian settlements and farmland that feeds on a wide range of animal and plant foods, including human food scraps.

• Short-eared Bat Cyttarops alecto

  The short-eared bat has dark, fluffy fur. It lives in tropical lowland forest and catches insects on the wing at night.

• Crested Barbet Trachyphonus vaillantii

  This barbet lives in woodlands and savannas of southern Africa. Its crest and red, yellow, and black markings stand out, and both sexes dig nest cavities.

• Bangka Slow Loris Nycticebus bancanus

  A slow loris known from Bangka Island, Indonesia. The adult female described by Lyon has an ochre-buff coat and a dark back stripe that fades around the lower back.

• Bar-bellied Pitta Hydrornis elliotii

  The Bar-bellied Pitta lives in lowland forest in Indochina and searches for food on the ground. It turns leaf litter while feeding on insects and earthworms.

• Bushveld Elephant Shrew Elephantulus intufi

  A small mammal with a narrow, elongated snout and long hind legs. It lives in dry scrublands of southern Africa and mainly eats ants and termites.

• James's Flamingo Phoenicoparrus jamesi

  James's Flamingo has pale pink plumage, black flight feathers, red legs, and a short yellow bill with a black tip. It feeds in shallow high-Andean salt lakes and moves lower when wetlands freeze.

• Pampas Fox Lycalopex gymnocercus

  A medium-sized fox of grasslands and other habitats in southern South America, with regional variation in diet and coat color.

• Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris

  A black-and-white bird of Australia’s coast, the Pied Oystercatcher has a long red bill and legs and feeds on shellfish on beaches and mudflats.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Woodland Kingfisher Halcyon senegalensis

  The Woodland Kingfisher is an African kingfisher with blue upperparts and wings and a white underside. A southern African regional guide records it as a summer resident.

• Southern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon planifrons

  The southern bottlenose whale lives offshore in the Southern Hemisphere and is marked by a swollen forehead and short beak.

• Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

  The Green Catbird is an Australian bird with a green, white-spotted body and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and flowers in the forest canopy and gives a cat-like call.

• Ethiopian Highland Hare Lepus starcki

  This hare occurs in the Ethiopian Highlands. Reports describe a noticeable outer-ear pattern and often an entirely white upper surface of the tail. At the Bale Mountains study site, habitat use changed with the seasons.

• Cape Verde Storm Petrel Hydrobates jabejabe

  This storm-petrel breeds on rocky sites and uses surrounding marine waters. The 2018 IUCN assessment treated the Cape Verde population, while a 2026 study described the São Tomé population as a subspecies of Hydrobates jabejabe.

• Sundevall's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros caffer

  This bat has short, rounded wings, a large noseleaf, gray to gray-brown dorsal fur and a paler underside. It is recorded in southern African wooded savanna and riverine forest and feeds mainly on moths.