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• Long-winged Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) longimanus

  

  This bat ranges from South to Southeast Asia. The nominate Indian subspecies has a tail extending beyond its narrow tail membrane, and caves were recorded as roosts in Sri Lanka.

• St. Lucia Thrasher Ramphocinclus sanctaeluciae

  

  The St. Lucia Thrasher occurs only on Saint Lucia. It searches for food among leaf litter in lowland and coastal dry forest.

• Desert Pocket Gopher Geomys arenarius

  

  The desert pocket gopher is a rodent that digs underground burrows in sandy soils. It carries food in cheek pouches and feeds on plants below ground.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Bearded Capuchin Sapajus libidinosus

  

  The bearded capuchin is a capuchin monkey native to Brazil. Its coat is yellowish to beige, with dark limbs and a thick cap of hair.

• Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus

  

  A thrush with rusty-brown chest and flanks, using mountain and snow-free forests in different seasons.

• Red-eared Guenon Cercopithecus erythrotis

  This arboreal monkey has separate ranges in southeastern Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon, and on Bioko Island. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Black-capped Tanager Stilpnia heinei

  Black-capped Tanager occurs in the Andes. Males are blue-green and black, while females are dull green. The iridescent sheen changes with the light. It feeds on fruit and arthropods at forest edges and clearings. The account also lists its former combination, Tangara heinei.

• Red River Hog Potamochoerus porcus

  A wild pig of western and central African forests, savannas and wetlands that becomes active after dusk.

• Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

  The Common Scimitarbill has a slender, curved bill and uses dry open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. It moves through the canopy alone or in pairs.

• Lesser capybara Hydrochoerus isthmius

  The lesser capybara is a species in the capybara genus, ranging from eastern Panama into northwestern South America. It has coarse, dark reddish-brown fur and uses waterside habitat.

• 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.

• Northern muriqui Brachyteles hypoxanthus

  A large monkey that moves through the forest canopy using long limbs and a grasping tail. It is restricted to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil.

• Sao Tome Weaver Ploceus sanctithomae

  This weaver is endemic to São Tomé Island. The sexes differ in plumage, and pairs or flocks forage in trees by searching leaves, holes, and epiphytes.

• Andean Porcupine Coendou quichua

  This porcupine has a generally brown-looking back with pale quill tips giving it a frosted appearance. In Ecuador, its records are mainly from Andean forests at high elevations.

• Ashy-headed Greenlet Hylophilus pectoralis

  This greenlet occurs in northern South America, especially along coastal areas. It uses mangroves, forest, and forest edges, and feeds on insects.

• Mainland Dusky Antechinus Antechinus mimetes

  This small marsupial occurs in southeastern Australia. It is usually regarded as terrestrial, but camera traps at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, Victoria, recorded it visiting tree baits about 3.5 m high on 29 occasions.

• Madagascar Red Owl Tyto soumagnei

  The Madagascar red owl is nocturnal, with reddish-brown plumage marked by black spots. It also occurs near forest edges and farmland on Madagascar.

• Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus

  Large ears and a black-tipped tail help identify this deer.

• Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria griseogularis

  The Western Yellow Robin lives in woodland and forest in southwestern Australia. It is gray with a white throat and yellow rump, and drops from low branches to the ground to catch invertebrates.

• Somali Hedgehog Atelerix sclateri

  The Somali hedgehog is known from a small number of sites in northern Somalia. Dark spines on its back contrast with pale belly fur, while details of its life in the wild remain poorly documented.

• Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Penguin breeds along southern South American coasts and islands. It catches fish and squid at sea and raises chicks in nests on land.

• Hooded skunk Mephitis macroura

  The hooded skunk ranges from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America.

• Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus

  The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.