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• Plum-throated Cotinga Cotinga maynana

  

  This cotinga is recorded as a resident in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. BirdLife lists swamp forest as a major habitat and moist lowland forest as another suitable habitat.

• Bearded Capuchin Sapajus libidinosus

  The bearded capuchin is a capuchin monkey native to Brazil. Its coat is yellowish to beige, with dark limbs and a thick cap of hair.

• 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.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Black-breasted Buttonquail Turnix melanogaster

  The Black-breasted Buttonquail is a ground bird with white spots across its black breast. It forages through forest floors where a deep, moist layer of leaf litter is available.

• American Shrew Mole Neurotrichus gibbsii

  The American shrew mole has tiny eyes and a flat, elongated nose. It digs shallow tunnels beneath leaf litter and sometimes climbs low bushes above ground.

• Black Guineafowl Agelastes niger

  The Black Guineafowl is a ground-dwelling bird of forests in western and central Africa. It has black plumage and a bare red head, and occurs in small groups.

• Agile Gibbon Hylobates agilis

  This gibbon lives high in tropical forest and uses its long arms to move from branch to branch.

• Four-banded Sandgrouse Pterocles quadricinctus

  This sandgrouse has sandy plumage crossed by dark bands. It occurs in dry savanna and cultivated areas, alone in pairs or small groups.

• Golden-crowned Sifaka Propithecus tattersalli

  A sifaka with mostly white fur and a golden crown. It lives in limited forests in northeastern Madagascar and leaps between trees.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Formosan Ferret-badger Melogale subaurantiaca

  The Formosan ferret-badger of Taiwan has a white stripe along its back. It is usually solitary and nocturnal, eating small animals, insects, earthworms, and fruit.

• Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni

  This account focuses on the seasonal movements of the Japanese subspecies of Olive-backed Pipit. It breeds in open woodland and grassland from Shikoku and Honshu northward, then moves to lowlands with little persistent snow in autumn and winter.

• Common brown lemur Eulemur fulvus

  A lemur of northwestern and eastern Madagascan forests. It is active by day and night and mainly eats fruit.

• Grey crowned crane Balearica regulorum

  An African crane with a golden crown of stiff feathers. Adults have a mainly grey body and prominent white cheeks.

• Sunda Clouded Leopard Neofelis diardi

  A forest-dwelling cat of Borneo and Sumatra, known for its cloud-shaped coat markings.

• Ethiopian Oriole Oriolus monacha

  It occurs in the western and southeastern Ethiopian highlands, the Rift Valley, and southern Ethiopia, at about 1,200–3,200 m.

• Himalayan tahr Hemitragus jemlahicus

  A sure-footed hoofed mammal of the steep Himalayan mountains.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• Red slender loris Loris tardigradus

  The red slender loris is a small primate endemic to Sri Lanka. A 2017 study places the species across the island's wet zone and montane areas.

• Lovely Fairywren Malurus amabilis

  This fairywren is endemic to the wet tropics of northeastern Australia. The male retains bright plumage through the year.

• Sumatran Treeshrew Tupaia ferruginea

  The Sumatran Treeshrew occurs on Sumatra and Tanahbala in the Batu Islands. A 2011 survey recorded a field-identified Tupaia glis at a forest trap line in Riau, Sumatra.

• Black-headed Weaver Ploceus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Weaver is a bird whose breeding males show a black head and yellow body and build woven grass nests. It lives in open country and wetlands across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Cinereus Ringtail Possum Pseudochirulus cinereus

  This marsupial lives in tropical rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia. It is a ringtail possum adapted to life in trees.