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• White-bellied Whistler Pachycephala leucogastra

  

  This whistler has a patchy range in New Guinea. The male has a black head and breast band, white throat, and brown-grey back.

• 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.

• Greater Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus

  A starling with metallic blue-green plumage and yellow eyes, it eats fruit and insects.

• Angolan Soft-furred Fruit Bat Lissonycteris angolensis

  Surveys around Mount Cameroon captured this fruit bat near fruiting trees, cultivated land and cave entrances. The current MDD species page uses the name Myonycteris angolensis.

• 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.

• Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew Crocidura shantungensis

  The Asian Lesser White-toothed Shrew is recorded across parts of East Asia. A study found size differences between island and mainland samples.

• Cuban Tody Todus multicolor

  IWEco describes this tody as endemic to Cuba. It has vivid plumage and a long bill, and digs tunnel nests in rotten wood or soil banks.

• Spix's Night Monkey Aotus vociferans

  Spix's night monkey is active at night. A feeding study in Peruvian river basins found fruit to be its main recorded food, with flowers and nectar also used.

• Jerdon's Leafbird Chloropsis jerdoni

  A green leafbird with a dark blue-black throat in males. It may join mixed-species flocks at trees bearing flowers or fruit.

• Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops nanus

  This free-tailed bat has large, rounded ears joined above the forehead. Two specimens were recorded at a wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, amid sorghum crops and fragments of low deciduous forest.

• Black-eared Catbird Ailuroedus melanotis

  The Black-eared Catbird is a bowerbird with a green body, dark head markings, and cream-colored spots. It eats both animal and plant foods.

• 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.

• Puerto Rican Spindalis Spindalis portoricensis

  Endemic to Puerto Rico, this bird occurs from lowlands to higher elevations. It is found in forests and plantations and may visit gardens where fruit grows.

• Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus cornutus

  The subspecies recorded around Yasaka Dam roosts in mountain caves and catches flying insects at night near the river.

• Acacia Tit Melaniparus thruppi

  This small tit inhabits dry savanna from Ethiopia and Somalia south to northeastern Tanzania. It is associated with acacia woodland and scrub.

• Dark Sheath-tailed Bat Mosia nigrescens

  The Dark Sheath-tailed Bat is a small bat recorded on islands of Southeast Asia. A survey in Sulawesi described an individual with a flattened muzzle and widely spaced nostrils.

• Brown dipper Cinclus pallasii

  A mountain-stream bird that dives underwater for insects and small fish.

• Black-and-gold howler monkey Alouatta caraya

  A howler monkey of central South American forests. It grips branches with its long tail and mainly eats leaves.

• Bianchi's Warbler Seicercus valentini

  Bianchi’s Warbler appears as Seicercus valentini or Phylloscopus valentini in different sources. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society describes a small leaf warbler that searches for insects in the understory and notes that its full range is still poorly understood.

• Sulawesi babirusa Babyrousa celebensis

  A pig from Sulawesi and nearby islands whose males have upper tusks that grow through the snout.

• Hooded Antpitta Grallaricula cucullata

  The Hooded Antpitta is a small bird with a reddish-brown head and orange bill. It occurs in scattered, limited mountain forest areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

• Rufous-bellied Pademelon Thylogale billardierii

  The Rufous-bellied Pademelon is a small Tasmanian macropod with a short tail and legs and a reddish-brown belly. It shelters in dense cover by day and feeds near forest edges at night.

• American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

  The American White Pelican is a North American pelican with broad black-and-white wings and a huge bill. It scoops fish in shallow water, sometimes herding fish with other pelicans.

• Azara’s agouti Dasyprocta azarae

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