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• Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus

  

  The Chestnut-collared Longspur is a grassland bird whose plumage changes by season. Breeding males show a chestnut nape and black belly, and the birds forage on the ground for insects and seeds.

• Kloss's Gibbon Hylobates klossii

  

  Kloss's gibbon has black fur and long arms. It lives in the canopy of the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra.

• Western Thornbill Acanthiza inornata

  

  The Western Thornbill is a small bird of southwestern Western Australia that searches for insects in the undergrowth. It has an olive-gray back and creamy-buff underparts.

• Common African Dormouse Graphiurus (Graphiurus) murinus

  

  A small African mammal with a gray back, pale belly, and bushy tail. It forages at night and hibernates during cold winters.

• Lilac-breasted roller Coracias caudatus

  

  A colourful bird of African savannas and open woodland, often seen surveying its surroundings from high branches.

• Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin Cebus aequatorialis

  

  The Ecuadorian White-fronted Capuchin uses mature forest, especially near streams, and also enters degraded forest. Coat color varies with age and among individuals.

• White-browed Bulbul Pycnonotus luteolus

  The White-browed Bulbul is a resident breeder in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Its white eyebrow is distinctive, and it searches bushes for fruit, nectar, and insects.

• Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat Otomops wroughtoni

  Wroughton’s free-tailed bat is poorly recorded in South and Southeast Asia. It is considered an open-space, high-flying forager, and a 2025 study recorded its calls in western India.

• Northern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicus

  The Northern Carmine Bee-eater is a vivid red bird that catches grasshoppers and other insects in flight, often in flocks.

• Russian Desman Desmana moschata

  The Russian desman is a mole relative that lives by water. It has a flexible snout and fully webbed hind feet.

• Diademed Tapaculo Scytalopus schulenbergi

  This tapaculo occurs on the eastern Andean slope. Adults are gray, with a pale forehead and variable rufous on the flanks and rump. It feeds near the ground in humid montane forest, scrub, and Polylepis woodland.

• Indian Hedgehog Paraechinus micropus

  The Indian hedgehog lives in dry regions and needs some plant cover for shelter and nest material.

• Sumatran Drongo Dicrurus sumatranus

  The Sumatran Drongo lives in humid forests on Sumatra and catches insects by sallying from a perch. This account places the former Mentawai subspecies with Hair-crested Drongo.

• Mediterranean horseshoe bat Rhinolophus euryale

  A bat of wooded foothills and mountains. It emerges at twilight to hunt moths and other insects.

• Fiordland Penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus

  The Fiordland Penguin breeds on islands and coasts in southwestern New Zealand. It has yellow crests and nests in places such as coastal forest, rock crevices, and caves.

• Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys desmarestianus

  Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse has fur-lined pouches beside its mouth. In Costa Rica's wet forests it forages on the ground at night; the Costa Rican diet records focus on palm nuts and other seeds.

• Australian Hobby Falco longipennis

  The Australian Hobby catches small birds and large flying insects in the air. Its plumage varies somewhat by sex and region.

• Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous tatouay

  An armadillo whose tail lacks armor. At night it digs into soil and termite mounds with its large claws, feeding mainly on ants and termites.

• Jamaican Spindalis Spindalis nigricephala

  This endemic tanager inhabits lowland and mountain forests in Jamaica. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• Guianan Red Howler Alouatta macconnelli

  Its back is bright orange to golden, and its tail is dark red. This howler monkey is centered in forests north of the Amazon, including the Guianas.

• Andean Potoo Nyctibius maculosus

  Fine gray, brown, and black markings and yellow eyes stand out on this nocturnal bird of Andean cloud forest.

• Azara’s agouti Dasyprocta azarae

  A daytime forest-floor rodent that eats fruit and seeds.

• Tropical Royal Flycatcher Onychorhynchus coronatus

  The Tropical Royal Flycatcher catches flying insects in forest undergrowth and at woodland edges near streams. Its crest usually lies flat but opens into a fan, scarlet in males and yellow in females.

• Common Planigale Planigale maculata

  This small marsupial lives in northeastern Australia and is marked by its flattened head and large ears.