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• Little Bittern Botaurus minutus

  

  European birds are pigeon-sized herons with pale wing panels. They hide in reedbeds and are active at dawn and dusk.

• Visayan Warty Pig Sus cebifrons

  It has mane-like hair that can fall across the face. The range entry is limited to the living population on Negros and Panay.

• Chestnut Forest Crake Rallicula rubra

  This rail searches the forest floor for invertebrates in the highlands of New Guinea.

• African Striped Weasel Poecilogale albinucha

  The African striped weasel has a long, slim body marked with black and white stripes. It is active around burrows at night and mainly eats small mammals.

• Madagascar Jacana Actophilornis albinucha

  The Madagascar Jacana inhabits wetlands in western Madagascar. A 2016 survey found it at 22 of the 54 lakes examined.

• Chinese Rufous Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sinicus

  The Chinese rufous horseshoe bat ranges from South Asia through China and Vietnam. It is reported from rainy montane forests.

• Afghan Babbler Argya huttoni

  The Afghan Babbler is a long-tailed babbler found from Iraq and Iran east through Afghanistan to southwestern Pakistan. It inhabits dry scrub and rocky hills.

• Black-mantled Tamarin Leontocebus nigricollis

  This entry covers the nominate subspecies of the black-mantled tamarin. It inhabits humid tropical forest and edges; its described features include a black mantle, bare ears, and a gray-white muzzle.

• Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus

  The Dusky Woodswallow is a grey-brown bird with a white patch on the outer wing. Flocks of about 10–30 birds gather to roost together.

• Greater Bonneted Bat Eumops perotis

  The greater bonneted bat is the largest molossid bat in North America. Its long ears meet above the head, and it launches from cliffs before hunting insects at night.

• Cocoa Thrush Turdus fumigatus

  The Cocoa Thrush is dark rufous-brown above and paler rufous-brown below. It forages on or near the ground and uses forests and plantations.

• Bharal (blue sheep) Pseudois nayaur

  A mountain animal also known as the blue sheep, found in the Indian Himalaya.

• Red-billed Firefinch Lagonosticta senegala

  Males have noticeable red plumage, while females are mostly brown. Their plumage differs by sex.

• Mountain Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus cunninghami

  This possum lives in cool, wet mountain forests. Its short rounded ears and bushy black tail, bare underneath, stand out.

• Gray-winged Francolin Scleroptila afra

  A finely patterned bird that blends into grassland, endemic to South Africa and Lesotho and found in mountains and rocky hills.

• Painted Woolly Bat Kerivoula picta

  This small bat has bright orange fur and black wings. It hunts spiders and insects while flying through cluttered spaces close to the ground.

• Mountain Oriole Oriolus percivali

  The Mountain Oriole lives in East African montane forest. Its head, neck, and upper breast are glossy black, with yellow and olive-green across the back and wings.

• Side-striped Jackal Lupulella adustus

  A slender jackal of western, central and southern Africa that also eats fruit and insects.

• Grand Rhabdornis Rhabdornis grandis

  This rhabdornis lives in middle- and higher-elevation forests on Luzon. It has a gray crown, a dark facial mask, and reddish streaks on its pale underparts.

• Southern White-cheeked Crested Gibbon Nomascus siki

  The southern white-cheeked gibbon lives in forests of central Laos and Vietnam. It stays in the canopy, and its diet changes with the seasons.

• Cinereous Becard Pachyramphus rufus

  The male has a gray back and tail with a black crown; the female is cinnamon to rufous. In Peru, the species is recorded in second growth and river islands along the Amazon and Ucayali.

• Haviside's Dolphin Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

  This small dolphin lives off southwestern Africa. Its grey body has a dark cape and white markings, and it is observed in shallow coastal and shelf waters, usually in small groups.

• 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.

• Hawk's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur tymerlachsoni

  Hawk’s sportive lemur is confined to forest on Nosy Be. Gray fur frames its large eyes, and a dark stripe runs from its head down its back.