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• Long-tailed weasel Neogale frenata

  

  A long-bodied weasel found in forests, fields, and other habitats in North Carolina.

• Yellow-faced Parrotlet Forpus xanthops

  

  The Yellow-faced Parrotlet is a small parrot restricted to the upper Marañón drainage in northern Peru. Both sexes have a yellow face and breast; males show blue on the rump and wings.

• Minute Tuco-tuco Ctenomys minutus

  

  The minute tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent of the southern Brazilian coastal plain. Populations in sandy fields beside dunes are described as typically brown.

• Palau Broadbill Myiagra erythrops

  

  This forest bird is endemic to Palau. It occurs across the islands' forests and is especially numerous in mangroves in the cited field guide.

• Short-eared Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus

  

  The short-eared brushtail possum is a nocturnal marsupial of moist forests in southeastern Australia. By day it shelters in tree hollows or fallen logs.

• Negros Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba keayi

  

  A ground-dwelling pigeon of forests on Panay and Negros. It has a narrow red patch at the center of its white throat and breast, with green iridescence on the head and wings.

• Woolly Giant Rat Kunsia tomentosus

  The woolly giant rat is a large rodent of savannas and grasslands in Brazil and Bolivia. Its strong forefeet and long claws help it dig.

• Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus

  A black bird with a deeply forked tail. It lives in open areas such as farms and wetlands in India, perching at vantage points to chase insects.

• Eurasian Forest Dormouse Dryomys nitedula

  The Eurasian forest dormouse balances with its fluffy, flattened tail as it moves through branches. It lives in forests with broad-leaved trees and hibernates in winter.

• Rufous Treecreeper Climacteris rufus

  The Rufous Treecreeper ranges through eucalypt forest and shrubland from southwestern Australia to the Eyre Peninsula. It climbs trunks with large feet; a southern jarrah forest study found it foraging and nesting in large eucalypts.

• Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii

  A seal of Antarctic coasts. It swims beneath sea ice and breathes through holes and cracks in the ice.

• Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Jacamar lives along lowland forest edges from Central into South America. It waits on a branch and catches insects in flight.

• 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.

• Brown-chested Barbet Capito brunneipectus

  The Brown-chested Barbet occurs in the forests of Brazil's central Amazon. Regional accounts describe it feeding on fruit and invertebrates in moist forest canopy and nesting in tree cavities.

• Ferreira’s Spiny Tree-rat Mesomys hispidus

  This arboreal rodent has stiff spines on its back and a long tail ending in a tuft. It is reported throughout the Amazon Basin and was commonly captured in mature forest in a Peruvian study.

• Makira Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx gentianus

  This small kingfisher occurs on Makira in the Solomon Islands. The account treats Ceyx gentianus separately from the grouping in which it was formerly included, Variable Dwarf Kingfisher.

• Siau Island Tarsier Tarsius tumpara

  The Siau Island tarsier is a nocturnal primate from Siau Island, Indonesia. Its facial markings and a tuft at the end of its tail are described in the species account.

• Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata

  An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.

• Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis

  This nocturnal monkey has a coat mixed with brown, cream, and black. It lives among the trees of forests in Panama and northwestern Colombia.

• Velvet Asity Philepitta castanea

  The Velvet Asity lives in Madagascar's forests, and breeding males look very different from females. Males raise the structures above their eyes during courtship.

• Chestnut Rat Niviventer fulvescens

  The chestnut rat uses both the ground and trees. It occurs in forests as well as secondary growth and gardens, and its coat color varies across its range.

• McKay's Bunting Plectrophenax hyperboreus

  McKay's Bunting breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and moves to the west coast of Alaska for winter.

• Common Red-rumped Agouti Dasyprocta leporina

  A rodent native to northern South America that sometimes buries seeds for later.

• Buff-faced Scrubwren Aethomyias perspicillatus

  A field guide to the Mimika region of Papua records this species under its older name, Sericornis perspicillatus. The account describes olive upperparts and a pale buff-orange face, and records it in shrubs and the midstory at montane forest edges.