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• Five-toed Dwarf Jerboa Cardiocranius paradoxus

  

  The five-toed dwarf jerboa is a small jerboa with 5 toes on its hind feet. It moves through dry rocky areas at night and eats plant seeds.

• Crested Becard Pachyramphus validus

  

  Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.

• Peruvian Armored Tree-rat Toromys rhipidurus

  

  This is an arboreal spiny rat recorded in the Peruvian Amazon. A live animal captured near Iquitos showed pale cream patches behind its ears.

• Indian Pitta Pitta brachyura

  

  The Indian Pitta is a colorful ground-dwelling bird of scrub and forest in the Indian subcontinent. It moves between regions seasonally.

• San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys gravipes

  

  The San Quintín kangaroo rat lives on a small coastal plain in Baja California, Mexico. It was rediscovered in 2017, and later surveys confirmed its presence.

• New Zealand Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae

  

  A pipit of open New Zealand landscapes that walks over the ground in search of small prey.

• Brant's Climbing Mouse Dendromus mesomelas

  Brant's Climbing Mouse moves through and climbs low vegetation. Near Cape Town, it was recorded building a ball-shaped grass nest inside old weaver nests.

• Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus

  The Northern Plain Xenops searches tree trunks for insects in the lower and middle levels of humid tropical forest and at forest edges. Birds Colombia describes the sexes as similar and notes that juveniles have a dark brown throat.

• Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus

  A large kangaroo from southern Australia that eats grasses and shrubs.

• Hooded Butcherbird Cracticus cassicus

  This butcherbird occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It searches for insects, fruit, and other food in the canopy of lowland forest and dense secondary growth.

• Caracciolo's Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes caraccioli

  Caracciolo's stripe-faced bat is a fruit-eating bat marked with white lines on its face and back. In Bolivia, it feeds mainly on figs and roosts high in the canopy.

• Yellow-throated Sandgrouse Pterocles gutturalis

  The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse is marked by the male's yellow throat and eyebrow, framed by a dark neck band. In southern Africa, studies describe pairs nesting on the ground and using farmland.

• Ryukyu Flying Fox Pteropus dasymallus

  This flying fox roosts in forest trees and feeds mainly on fruit. Coat color and roosting patterns vary among subspecies.

• New Caledonian Storm Petrel Fregetta lineata

  The New Caledonian Storm Petrel has blackish-brown upperparts, a white rump and a white belly streaked with black. Breeding has been confirmed in New Caledonia.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus

  This flycatcher occurs in African savanna and open woodland. It waits on a low perch and catches insects in the air or on the ground. eBird uses the combination Agricola pallidus for the same bird.

• 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.

• Red-cheeked Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi

  Geoffroy's Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that eats fruit and flower buds. It feeds in pairs or small groups in the treetops and calls noisily around dawn and dusk.

• Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis

  This small dolphin lives in shallow seas and estuaries. It has a triangular dorsal fin and gray coloring and feeds on fish, squid, and crustaceans.

• Light-mantled Albatross Phoebetria palpebrata

  An albatross of Antarctic and subantarctic seas; about 1,000 pairs breed each year on Macquarie Island. It has a dark gray head, lighter gray body, and white crescent around most of the eye.

• Black-tailed Jack Rabbit Lepus californicus

  A hare found from the southwestern United States into parts of Mexico, known for long ears and a black tail.

• White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus

  The White-headed Mousebird lives in dry scrub and thornbush.

• Black-lipped Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) curzoniae

  This small pika lives in high grasslands and steppes of the Tibetan Plateau and has no obvious visible tail. Meadow populations are known to gather and store plants.

• Red-capped Crombec Sylvietta ruficapilla

  This small bird occurs in Africa. It has a pale-grey back, chestnut ear-coverts and breast band, while the forehead and crown vary from grey to chestnut.