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• White-browed Woodswallow Artamus superciliosus

  

  The White-browed Woodswallow is an Australian bird with a striking white eyebrow. It moves in large flocks between seasonal ranges and catches insects in flight.

• Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis

  The western woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur of western Madagascar's forests. It has thick grayish fur and lives in small family groups.

• Gould's Petrel Pterodroma leucoptera

  The nominate subspecies of Gould's Petrel is a small seabird that breeds on islands off New South Wales.

• Brazilian Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma doriae

  The Brazilian big-eyed bat has distinctive white lines on its face and back. It is recorded in many Brazilian habitats and often feeds on wild figs.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens

  A shrew that lives beside fresh water and dives to search for prey.

• Spot-crowned Barbet Capito maculicoronatus

  A barbet of forests from Panama to northwestern Colombia. A Panama breeding study followed an adult pair as they excavated a cavity in a dead tree and raised nestlings.

• Audubon's Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii

  Audubon's cottontail is a rabbit with a fluffy white tail. It hides among brush in dry regions.

• Plain Prinia Prinia inornata

  This small prinia has a long tail and hides among grass and scrub. In Hong Kong, it nests on reed stems in spring.

• Java Warty Pig Sus verrucosus

  This pig occurs on Java and Bawean Island. It has an elongated face and uses cultivated landscapes and teak plantations mixed with grassland, scrub, and secondary forest.

• Costa Rican Swift Chaetura fumosa

  The Costa Rican Swift is sooty black with a pale gray rump band and lighter throat. On Costa Rica’s southern Pacific side, pairs are seen over forest and open country.

• Bat-eared fox Otocyon megalotis

  A canid of African grasslands with enormous ears, a yellow-brown body, a dark face mask and black feet.

• Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes

  This migrant breeds in Siberia and moves south, probing mud and rocks for food at estuaries and tidal flats.

• Pygmy Tree Shrew Tupaia minor

  The pygmy tree shrew is a small, squirrel-like animal with a long, pointed snout. It is active by day and spends much of its time in the forest canopy.

• White-throated Jacamar Brachygalba albogularis

  A jacamar with a white throat and facial markings and a long, pale-yellow bill; it catches flying insects along riverside forest.

• Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia

  A wild sheep of the dry mountains of North Africa.

• Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta

  This honeyeater occurs in southeastern Australia. Mistletoe fruit is its main food, and it also takes nectar and insects.

• Collins' Squirrel Monkey Saimiri collinsi

  Collins' squirrel monkey occurs in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and is omnivorous. It often uses the middle and lower forest strata and sometimes descends to the ground to feed on insects.

• Sunda Grasshopper-warbler Locustella montis

  This small bird lives on Java, Indonesia. A 2015 taxonomic study retained Java's Locustella montis as a species and included the Timor population as a subspecies. This entry describes the Java specimens examined in that study.

• Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus

  A dolphin of Indian and Pacific Ocean coastal waters. It feeds mainly on fish in shallow waters.

• Nubian Bustard Neotis nuba

  The Nubian Bustard is a large bustard of dry country along the southern Sahara. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant foods.

• 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.

• Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus

  This large grey bird lives in open woodland and acacia scrub in eastern Africa. Its face is bare of feathers, and the two subspecies differ in facial and body coloration.

• Arabian Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius

  This jird occurs on the Arabian Peninsula. Genetic work leaves some Arabian identifications uncertain.