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• Scarlet-crowned Barbet Capito aurovirens

  

  This barbet is about 18.5 cm long. Males have a red crown and females a pale one; both have an olive body with an orange throat and breast.

• Pampas Deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus

  A slender, long-legged deer of South American grasslands. In Argentina, current populations remain in limited areas.

• Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia

  The Mourning Warbler is a small warbler that breeds in North America and migrates through Central America to South America. Breeding males have a gray hood and black chest patch.

• Selous's Mongoose Paracynictis selousi

  Selous’s mongoose lives in southern African savanna and woodland and is usually solitary and active at night.

• Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis

  The Spotted Dikkop is a ground-dwelling bird with long legs and yellow eyes. It hunts insects by running, stopping, and jabbing at prey with its bill.

• Day's Shrew Suncus dayi

  Day’s shrew is a small shrew from humid montane forests in southern India. Its back is dark brown and its underside has a silvery sheen.

• Western Grasswren Amytornis textilis

  In the Shark Bay area of Western Australia, this grasswren uses shrublands and is recorded foraging on the ground in pairs or family groups.

• Australian Pale Field Rat Rattus tunneyi

  This rat lives in wetter parts of northern and eastern Australia. It has a pale brown back, a yellowish-grey to cream underside, and uses shallow burrows at night.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Short-eared Bat Cyttarops alecto

  The short-eared bat has dark, fluffy fur. It lives in tropical lowland forest and catches insects on the wing at night.

• Pale Rockfinch Carpospiza brachydactyla

  A pale sand-colored sparrow-like bird of sparsely vegetated hills and rocky valleys; it also eats insects during breeding.

• Gray Slender Loris Loris lydekkerianus

  The gray slender loris is a nocturnal primate with large forward-facing eyes and long, slender limbs.

• Raggiana Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana

  The Raggiana Bird-of-paradise has strongly different male and female plumage. Males display red flank plumes in courtship, while females care for the nest and young.

• Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufus

  This lemur is notable for its black face and pale cheek fur. Males and females have different coat colors, and female coloration varies by region.

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea

  The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny, long-tailed bird with blue-gray plumage. It moves through the outer foliage of broadleaf forests and scrublands while searching for insects and spiders.

• Palawan Bearded Pig Sus ahoenobarbus

  Adult Palawan bearded pigs have a pale mane and a long beard that crosses the snout. The species occurs in the Palawan Faunal Region of the Philippines.

• Matsudaira's Storm Petrel Hydrobates matsudairae

  A large storm petrel with white feather shafts on the wings and a long forked tail; it feeds on small fish and crustaceans at the sea surface.

• Marine Otter Lontra felina

  The marine otter lives among rocky shores along the Pacific coast of South America. It has dark brown fur and feeds on fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.

• Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera

  The Great-winged Petrel is a large seabird with long wings and all-dark plumage. It breeds on Southern Hemisphere islands and disperses widely over the oceans outside the breeding season.

• Thailand Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus thailandensis

  The Thailand horseshoe bat is confirmed from northern Thailand, with records from other parts of Thailand and southern Cambodia also assigned to it. Recent comparisons leave uncertainty about its boundary with related species and about a record from southern Vietnam.

• Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini

  Adults have a pale grey head and neck and a pale yellow ridge on the upper bill. Salvin's Albatross breeds in colonies on New Zealand islands and seeks food at sea.

• Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor

  The pied tamarin is an arboreal monkey from around Manaus in Amazonas, Brazil. It is active by day and has conspicuous white shoulders and chest.

• Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum

  A dark waterbird widespread around lakes and coasts in North America. It dives for fish and is often seen spreading its wings to dry them.

• Alvarez's Mastiff Bat Molossus alvarezi

  This bat has brown dorsal fur, paler underparts and rounded ears. It is recorded in forests and dry scrub and catches mostly moths in flight.