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• Scaly-throated Honeyguide Indicator variegatus

  

  The Scaly-throated Honeyguide has fine streaks on its throat and feeds in forests and dense woodland on beeswax, bees, and other insects.

• Upper Guinea Red Colobus Piliocolobus badius

  

  A red colobus monkey of forests along the Gulf of Guinea. Coat colours and patterns vary among populations.

• Burmese Bushtit Aegithalos sharpei

  

  This relatively long-tailed bushtit occurs in Myanmar’s Chin Hills. A 2014 Natmataung survey recorded it in pine and evergreen oak forest.

• Velvety Fruit-eating Bat Enchisthenes hartii

  

  This fruit-eating bat ranges across Central and South America. It is often recorded in moist forests, and there are records of it eating small figs.

• Western Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus occipitalis

  

  The Western Crowned Warbler breeds in the mountains of Central Asia and winters in forests on the Indian peninsula. It moves restlessly from branch to branch, searching among leaves for insects.

• Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus

  

  The southern three-banded armadillo is an armadillo that tucks its head and legs beneath its hard shell and curls up for defense.

• Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

  The Pygmy Nightjar is endemic to eastern Brazil. A study reports that it uses stony or gravelly ground in the Caatinga and rocky outcrops in Atlantic Forest sites for roosting and nesting. Plumage varies among subspecies.

• Formosan Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus formosae

  This bat has silky, glossy fur and a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf. It is endemic to Taiwan, but much of its natural history remains unknown.

• Rufous Gnateater Conopophaga lineata

  A small bird that searches for insects in the understory of eastern South American forest. A 2015 study used the older treatment that grouped three traditionally recognized subspecies within one species.

• Western Lowland Olingo Bassaricyon medius

  An olingo of forests from Panama to Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes. It lives in trees and eats fruit.

• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• Hope Porcupine Coendou speratus

  This small, long-tailed porcupine was described from Atlantic Forest on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Its back appears fully spiny because it lacks long dorsal fur, and the quill tips are reddish brown against a dark background.

• Arctic Loon Gavia arctica

  A waterbird that breeds on large lakes in northern Europe and Asia. Its breeding plumage is boldly patterned, and outside the breeding season it also uses sheltered coastal waters.

• Desert Warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus

  The desert warthog lives in dry savannas and is a separate species from the common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus.

• El Oro Parakeet Pyrrhura orcesi

  The El Oro Parakeet lives on forested slopes of the western Andes in Ecuador. It feeds in social groups, and some breeding pairs are helped by other birds.

• Red ruffed lemur Varecia rubra

  A rust-red lemur of Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula.

• Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus

  The Banded Quail is a small quail of south-central Mexico. Adults have a short crest and rows of black bars across the underparts.

• Common Shaggy Bat Centronycteris maximiliani

  This bat is recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the Guianas. In Pará, Brazil, a female was captured at a tree cavity used as a day roost.

• Grey-hooded Ibon Lophozosterops pinaiae

  This white-eye occurs on Seram in Indonesia. It searches montane tree-fern forest for insects and fruit.

• Eurasian Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus

  This small shrew has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears. In Britain it occurs in places with grass, leaf litter, or other ground cover.

• Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris

  The Tawny-faced Gnatwren lives in the lower levels of humid forest from Central America to northwestern South America. It forages near the ground and in leaf litter, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Pygmy Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus mayeri

  The pygmy ringtail lives in trees in the forests of New Guinea's central highlands. It is active at night and builds nests of leaves and moss in tree forks.

• Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos

  The male Pine Bunting is notable for its white head and chestnut coloring. The species has separate breeding areas in Asia, and migration differs between subspecies.

• Common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula

  A tree-dwelling nocturnal marsupial with large eyes and rounded ears.