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• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans

  

  The Elegant Crescentchest is recorded in dry forest and scrub in extreme northwestern Peru. Males have black heads, creamy eyebrows and throats, chestnut breasts, and broad black crescent bands; females have a reduced band and rufous underparts.

• Common tree shrew Tupaia glis

  This small mammal has a long, tapering muzzle and a bushy tail. During the day it searches for fruit and insects on the ground and among low shrubs.

• Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus

  Breeding males show a black face and chestnut nape. In winter, the birds may gather in flocks in North American fields.

• Plush-coated Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops corinnae

  This ring-tailed possum lives in the trees of New Guinea's montane forests. It curls its tail into a ring and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides

  By day it rests on a branch, blending in with the tree; at night it drops to the ground to catch prey.

• Andean Night Monkey Aotus miconax

  The Andean night monkey is a nocturnal primate of cloud forests in northeastern Peru. Large brown eyes and three black facial stripes are features described for the genus Aotus. A study of one group in Peru found it using tree holes and vine tangles as sleeping sites.

• Gray-throated Chat Granatellus sallaei

  This small bird occurs in forests of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It has a gray head and throat with a white eyebrow and searches low vegetation for insects.

• Southern Pudu Pudu puda

  A small deer of the temperate rainforests of Argentina and Chile. It makes trails through the undergrowth to feeding and resting places.

• Clark's Nutcracker Nucifraga columbiana

  Clark's Nutcracker is a corvid of western North American mountains. It carries conifer seeds and caches them in the ground.

• Indian Gray Mongoose Urva edwardsii

  A mongoose of South Asia and Arabia, recognized by its silver-gray speckled coat and white-tipped tail.

• Chihuahuan Meadowlark Sturnella lilianae

  This meadowlark is common in dry grasslands. It has pale brown, mottled upperparts and yellow underparts with a bold black V across the chest. It forages on the ground for seeds, grains, and insects.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• Masked Antpitta Hylopezus auricularis

  This small antpitta lives in lowland forest in northern Bolivia. Its gray head contrasts with a white underside marked by dark streaks, and it uses forest understories tangled with old vines.

• Atlantic Bamboo Rat Kannabateomys amblyonyx

  The Atlantic bamboo rat is an arboreal rodent of bamboo patches in the Atlantic Forest. It grips bamboo with broad digits and feeds on bamboo leaves and stems.

• Loveridge's Sunbird Cinnyris loveridgei

  Loveridge’s Sunbird is restricted to the mountains of Tanzania. Males have a golden-green head, a narrow violet breast band, and an orange-red breast; they visit flowers in montane forest.

• Western Yellow Bat Dasypterus xanthinus

  This bat occurs in dry parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. Its back is pale yellow, and it lacks a dark facial mask.

• Przevalski's Nuthatch Sitta przewalskii

  This nuthatch occurs in western China and northeastern Tibet. It uses spruce and fir forest, parkland, and places with scattered trees at roughly 2,200–4,000 m.

• Yucatán Spotted Skunk Spilogale yucatanensis

  This skunk occurs in forests of the northern Yucatán Peninsula. Camera traps in a small urban vegetation fragment in Mérida recorded it at night.

• Sri Lanka Drongo Dicrurus lophorinus

  This drongo is endemic to Sri Lanka and lacks the long bare-shafted tail rackets of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo. One study observed nesting pairs removing foliage around their host tree.

• Tucumán Tuco-tuco Ctenomys tucumanus

  The Tucumán Tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent recorded around the city of Tucumán. It has a reddish brown back, a pale underside, and white patches near the limbs.

• Chilean Flamingo Phoenicopterus chilensis

  A pale-pink flamingo of South American coasts and high-altitude lakes. It filters tiny food particles from shallow water.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Blyth's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus reguloides

  A small leaf warbler that searches forests for insects. It uses higher-elevation forest in the breeding season and is known to move to lower ground in winter.

• Malayan porcupine Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura

  The Malayan porcupine is a nocturnal rodent with long spines on its back. It occurs in forests of mainland Southeast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.