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• Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus

  

  The Black-throated Bushtit moves in small groups. It eats insects and small mollusks as well as seeds and berries.

• Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) microdon

  

  The small-toothed harvest mouse is a small rodent with reddish fur and a long tail. It is among the more arboreal members of its genus and inhabits cool, moist mountain forests.

• Sulphur-breasted Warbler Phylloscopus ricketti

  

  A yellow brow and crown stripe stand out on this small warbler, whose underside is also yellow. The source records observation sites in Thailand.

• 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.

• Little Woodswallow Artamus minor

  

  The Little Woodswallow is a small woodswallow of mainland Australia’s open inland. It glides in smooth circles while taking flying insects.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.

• Brown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterus

  This East African barbet occurs in coastal and riverine woodland and savanna. It has a red cap and throat, a brown upper breast, and white lower parts.

• Robert's Spiny-rat Proechimys roberti

  This spiny rat occurs in central Brazil. In a habitat analysis at Brasília National Park, all nine individuals used for the microhabitat analysis were captured in dry gallery forest.

• Galapagos Penguin Spheniscus mendiculus

  The Galapagos Penguin is a small penguin found only on the Galapagos Islands. It lives and breeds there year-round in the tropics.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Dickcissel Spiza americana

  The Dickcissel is a chunky grassland bird. Breeding males have a black V on the yellow chest; flocks can grow large during migration and winter.

• Bahia Porcupine Coendou insidiosus

  The Bahia porcupine has sharp quills and a long tail that can grasp branches. It is active in trees at night and eats fruits, bark, and other plant matter.

• Dusky Purpletuft Iodopleura fusca

  This cotinga is recorded in forest canopies from the Guiana Shield to northern Brazil. In field observations, males had purple upper-flank tufts and birds caught flying insects from the canopy.

• European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis

  The European free-tailed bat occurs around the Mediterranean and in parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. It catches flying insects over mountains and urban areas and roosts in rock crevices, caves, and bridges in both summer and winter.

• Red-headed Vulture Sarcogyps calvus

  The Red-headed Vulture has a red to orange head as an adult; it is paler in juveniles. It occurs across India and feeds on carrion.

• Buffy-headed Marmoset Callithrix flaviceps

  The Buffy-headed Marmoset is a small monkey with white tufts flaring from the sides of its head. It lives in southeastern Brazil and feeds on tree gum and other foods.

• Black Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus aterrimus

  The Black Scimitarbill is an African bird with a long curved bill and tail that searches tree trunks and branches for food.

• Insular Flying Fox Pteropus tonganus

  The insular flying fox, also called the Pacific flying fox, is a large bat of Pacific islands. It roosts in tall trees by day and searches for fruit and flowers at night.

• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus

  The Northern Bobwhite is a ground-dwelling bird of grasslands and woodland edges in eastern and southern North America. It hides in cover and moves in groups.

• White-handed gibbon Hylobates lar

  A gibbon of Southeast Asian forests. It swings between branches using its long arms.

• Owston's Tit Sittiparus owstoni

  This tit inhabits forests on the southern Izu Islands. It eats insects as well as seeds and nuts.

• Nathusius's Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii

  Nathusius's pipistrelle is a migratory bat. In the UK it catches flying insects near lakes and rivers.

• Cocoi Heron Ardea cocoi

  This large heron has a black cap, white neck, and grey back. It searches for fish and other prey in South American wetlands.

• Gray-headed Flying Squirrel Petaurista caniceps

  This flying squirrel ranges from the eastern Himalaya into southwestern China. Specialist accounts describe a gray head and an unspotted back.