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• White-headed Marsh Tyrant Arundinicola leucocephala

  

  The White-headed Marsh Tyrant perches on aquatic plants and reeds, and the sexes have different plumage. Records are also confirmed in Argentina.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• Mountain Barbet Psilopogon monticola

  

  It is a stocky green bird with a bare orange-yellow patch around the eye and a heavy pale bill. In Borneo's montane forest canopy it feeds mainly on fruit and berries.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.

• Fairy Flycatcher Stenostira scita

  

  The Fairy Flycatcher is a small bird of southern Africa. It makes seasonal movements between the southern Karoo and fynbos in summer and thorn scrub farther north in winter.

• Small Sulawesi Cuscus Strigocuscus celebensis

  

  The small cuscus has pale buff fur and a partly bare tail. It lives on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Scaled Chachalaca Ortalis squamata

  This arboreal bird lives in forests of southern Brazil. A regional account describes it in family groups or small flocks and notes its fruit diet.

• Antarctic Fur Seal Arctocephalus gazella

  An ocean-foraging fur seal that breeds on South Georgia and other islands around Antarctica and in the subantarctic.

• Black-throated Shrikebill Clytorhynchus nigrogularis

  A forest bird of Fiji's islands, inhabiting closed-canopy forest; the sexes differ in head pattern.

• Giant Atlantic Tree-rat Phyllomys thomasi

  A spiny rat known only from São Sebastião Island off southeastern Brazil. Its back bears reddish-brown spines, and much of the island is Atlantic rainforest.

• Ivory-billed Aracari Pteroglossus azara

  This toucan occurs in the humid lowland forests of western Amazonian Bolivia. It has a pale bill and red, black, and yellow breast bands; fruit-feeding has been recorded in the canopy.

• Gray Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus

  This lemur lives in eastern Madagascar. In a rainy-season study at Maromizaha, the observed Hapalemur griseus griseus often ate young bamboo growth and used the lower forest layer.

• Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

  The male Orange-bellied Leafbird has a green body, orange underparts and a purplish-blue throat. It feeds on insects and fruit in forest from the Himalaya toward Assam.

• Seal's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur seali

  Seal's sportive lemur has thick, long fur and a pale collar at the neck. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus

  An Australian stilt that gathers at salt lakes filled by rain. In breeding plumage, a chestnut band stands out across the breast.

• Pardine Genet Genetta pardina

  The Pardine Genet is a nocturnal genet of western African moist forests and riparian woodland. It is recorded as an omnivore that eats small mammals, insects, and fruit.

• Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens

  The Blue-billed Malimbe has a blue bill and a scarlet patch across the throat and upper breast. In lowland forest undergrowth, it climbs branches while searching for arthropods.

• Common Tent-making Bat Uroderma bilobatum

  The common tent-making bat chews leaf veins to create a resting place beneath a drooping leaf. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Red-kneed Dotterel Erythrogonys cinctus

  The Red-kneed Dotterel is a small plover with a black head and breast band and reddish legs. After heavy rain it may move inland to breed, returning toward the coast as wetlands dry.

• Gerp's Mouse Lemur Microcebus gerpi

  This nocturnal mouse lemur lives in lowland forests and forest fragments in eastern Madagascar. It forages alone in trees in a heavily fragmented landscape.

• Red-winged Laughingthrush Trochalopteron formosum

  This large laughingthrush ranges from southwestern China to northern Vietnam. Its red wings and tail stand out, and it occurs in evergreen broadleaf forest and nearby scrub or bamboo.

• Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

  A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

• Red Knot Calidris canutus

  A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and travels to distant coasts during migration. Its belly turns orange-red in breeding plumage.

• Black Crested Gibbon Nomascus concolor

  A gibbon of mountain forests in southwestern China and nearby areas. Adult males and females have very different coat colors.