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• Black-bellied Gnateater Conopophaga melanogaster

  

  The Black-bellied Gnateater has a bold white eyebrow and chestnut wings. Males have a black head and underparts, while these areas are gray in females; it forages in dense humid forest understory.

• Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat Paremballonura atrata

  This sheath-tailed bat occurs in Madagascar. It has long, shaggy, brownish-black fur and rounded ears, and a Marojejy survey also recorded it in open habitats.

• Desert Owl Strix hadorami

  The Desert Owl’s facial disc is described as ranging from sandy gray to off-white among specimens. It occurs in rocky deserts and uses crevices in cliffs, caves, and wadis for roosting or nesting. An Israeli pellet study found small rodents and insectivores among its prey.

• Australian snubfin dolphin Orcaella heinsohni

  The Australian snubfin dolphin has a rounded head and no beak, and lives in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea.

• Thick-billed Longspur Rhynchophanes mccownii

  The Thick-billed Longspur breeds in North American shortgrass prairie and moves to open land farther south for winter.

• Northern fur seal Callorhinus ursinus

  A North Pacific fur seal that spends much of its time in the open ocean. It comes ashore on island beaches to breed and rest.

• Marbled Frogmouth Podargus ocellatus

  This nocturnal forest bird has several regional forms. The distribution entry here is limited to the marmoratus subspecies in northeastern Australia.

• Vanuatu Flying Fox Pteropus anetianus

  The Vanuatu flying fox lives on islands in Vanuatu. It roosts in small groups and eats fruit and flowers. The factsheet says it is seen flying by day more often than other flying foxes in Vanuatu.

• Varied Bunting Passerina versicolor

  The Varied Bunting lives mainly in Mexico, in scrub and streamside thickets. Males are reddish violet, while females and young birds are brown; it searches low in dense vegetation for insects.

• Darwin's Fox Lycalopex fulvipes

  Darwin's fox is a small fox of southern Chilean forests. Its dark coat and reddish backs of the ears are distinctive; separate populations occur on Chiloé Island and the mainland.

• White-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax formosus

  The White-throated Magpie-Jay is a large jay with a conspicuous white face and crest and a long tail. It ranges from southern Mexico into Central America and travels in small groups.

• Panamanian White-faced Capuchin Cebus imitator

  A capuchin monkey of Central American forests. Its dark body contrasts with a pale face, and its hands and tail help it search for varied foods.

• Peruvian Meadowlark Leistes bellicosus

  This meadowlark occurs in western South America from Colombia and Ecuador through Peru to northern Chile. Males have a dark body, white eyebrow, and red throat and breast, and forage on the ground in open country.

• Sulawesi babirusa Babyrousa celebensis

  A pig from Sulawesi and nearby islands whose males have upper tusks that grow through the snout.

• Hooded Antpitta Grallaricula cucullata

  The Hooded Antpitta is a small bird with a reddish-brown head and orange bill. It occurs in scattered, limited mountain forest areas of Colombia and Venezuela.

• Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

  A tree-dwelling gibbon with pale fur on its cheeks.

• Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda

  The male has long tail feathers and is longer than the female. This small bird feeds on nectar, small insects, and spiders.

• Eastern Woolly Lemur Avahi laniger

  The eastern woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of eastern Madagascar, marked by woolly back fur and a white stripe on the thighs.

• Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti

  The Algerian Nuthatch is a small bird endemic to mountain forests in northeastern Algeria. Recent breeding research has monitored nests in several forests.

• Steppe Polecat Mustela eversmanii

  The Steppe Polecat is a mustelid of dry open habitats across parts of Europe and Central Asia. Its pale coat contrasts with a dark facial mask, legs, and part of the tail.

• Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus remifer

  The Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo is a dark bird with racket-shaped tail tips. In Southeast Asian forests it catches insects near the canopy and may imitate other birds' calls.

• Alaotran gentle lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis

  The Alaotran gentle lemur is a small lemur with a long tail and dense fur. It lives only in the reed and papyrus wetlands around Lake Alaotra in Madagascar.

• Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus

  This small leaf warbler has a yellow eyebrow and two wing bars. It breeds in the Siberian taiga and spends most of the winter in Southeast Asia.

• Flat-headed cat Prionailurus planiceps

  A small water-associated cat with a narrow head and a flattened forehead.