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• Cook Reed Warbler Acrocephalus kerearako

  

  The Cook Reed Warbler is an island reed warbler of the Cook Islands. Bell’s comparative study covers populations on Mangaia and Mitiaro and records the species beside lakes, ponds, and rivers.

• Cantor's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros galeritus

  

  This bat ranges across South and Southeast Asia. The 2019 species account recognizes four subspecies and gives their distributions.

• White-naped crane Antigone vipio

  

  A crane with a gray-and-white neck and pinkish legs.

• Greater Broad-nosed Bat Scoteanax rueppellii

  

  The Greater Broad-nosed Bat is a large bat of eastern Australia. It is active at night, catches insects, and roosts in places such as tree hollows.

• Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler Napothera epilepidota

  

  The Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler is a 10–11 cm bird that searches for food in the undergrowth and near the ground in evergreen forest.

• Mainland leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis

  

  A small wild cat of mainland Asia and some nearby islands. It has dark body spots, with coat colour and pattern varying by region.

• 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.

• Decken's Sifaka Propithecus deckenii

  Decken's Sifaka is a lemur of northwestern Madagascar's dry deciduous forests and limestone tsingy. Its ivory fur contrasts with dark skin.

• Chatham Islands Gerygone Gerygone albofrontata

  This small forest bird is endemic to the Chatham Islands. It gleans small invertebrates from leaves and crevices in branches and trunks, and sometimes feeds on the ground.

• Arctic Shrew Sorex arcticus

  The Arctic shrew lives in moist grasslands and wetlands. Its winter coat has three distinct color zones.

• Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster

  This roller occurs in western and central Africa. Its pale-blue belly and vivid blue tail stand out, and it dives from trees to the ground to catch prey.

• Blesbok Damaliscus phillipsi

  Damaliscus phillipsi is a South African antelope with reddish-brown fur and a white facial blaze usually divided by a brown band between the eyes. It feeds mainly on grass.

• Mindoro Bulbul Hypsipetes mindorensis

  Mindoro Bulbul is endemic to Mindoro in the Philippines. Its 1890 description records dark olive-brown upperparts and a rufous-tinged breast.

• Western Nesomys Nesomys lambertoni

  Lamberton’s forest rat is a rodent recorded in forest on the limestone formations of western Madagascar.

• Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus

  The Rainbow Bee-eater has vivid green, blue, and yellow plumage. It beats captured bees against a perch to remove their stings before eating them.

• Harp seal Pagophilus groenlandicus

  A seal of cold North Atlantic and Arctic waters. It gathers on pack ice during breeding and molting seasons.

• Zimmer's Tapaculo Scytalopus zimmeri

  Zimmer's Tapaculo is a small ground-level bird of humid ravines and open woodland on the eastern Andes. A white throat and pale eyebrow stand out; it is usually alone or in pairs and is often heard before it is seen. This account is limited to southern Andean records in Bolivia and neighboring northwestern Argentina.

• Banggai Cuscus Phalanger pelengensis

  The Banggai cuscus is a marsupial of the Banggai Islands, with an orange-brown back and a yellowish belly. Its behavior is described here at the genus level where the source groups two species together.

• Pygmy Drongo Chaetorhynchus papuensis

  The Pygmy Drongo is a sedentary small bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults have dark plumage, a blue-violet crest, and a blue sheen.

• Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

  A large sea lion of the cold North Pacific. It catches fish and other prey at sea and rests ashore.

• Erect-crested Penguin Eudyptes sclateri

  Erect-crested penguins have yellow crests that rise obliquely above their eyes. They breed on islands near New Zealand and feed on small crustaceans and squid.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.

• Slaty-backed Forest Falcon Micrastur mirandollei

  The Slaty-backed Forest Falcon has a gray back and narrow white tail bars. It is solitary and lives in lowland rainforest and mature secondary forest in Costa Rica.

• Golden bamboo lemur Hapalemur aureus

  The golden bamboo lemur mainly eats young parts of bamboo. It occurs in southeastern Madagascar's forests.