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• Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx

  

  The short-nosed fruit bat occurs in Hong Kong woodlands and parks, feeds at night on fruit and nectar, and males make tent-like shelters beneath palm leaves.

• Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus

  

  In Hong Kong, this bulbul forms flocks in forest canopies. Adults and young birds differ in head color.

• European badger Meles meles

  

  A badger with a sturdy body and conspicuous black-and-white facial markings.

• Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

  

  The Moustached Warbler is a small brown bird with a long pale eyebrow stripe. It lives in Mediterranean wetlands.

• Swamp Antechinus Antechinus minimus

  

  The swamp antechinus is a small marsupial of wet grasslands and scrub on Tasmania and islands in Bass Strait. It is most active around dusk.

• White-bellied Drongo Dicrurus caerulescens

  

  The White-bellied Drongo has glossy, bluish-black plumage and a forked tail. The extent of white on its belly varies among regional forms.

• Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur Allocebus trichotis

  The hairy-eared dwarf lemur is a nocturnal small lemur recorded in northeastern Madagascar. Tufts on its ears and a leaf nest in a tree hollow are distinctive features.

• Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis

  A small bird that breeds among Arctic rocks and forms flocks in open places in North America during winter. It searches the ground for seeds and insects.

• Chiriquinan Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) chiriquinus

  Eptesicus chiriquinus is recorded in Bolivia. The Bolivian bat conservation program describes most records as humid, while also documenting a capture in dry inter-Andean forest at Torotoro National Park.

• Emerald Starling Lamprotornis iris

  The Emerald Starling is a West African starling with a restricted range in savanna woodland and open woodland.

• Geoffroy's Cat Leopardus geoffroyi

  A cat of southern South America, living in grassland, scrub, wetlands and woodland.

• Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus

  The Grey-backed Shrike has a grey back, a black facial mask, and a chestnut tail. It breeds at high elevations, and winter movements differ between subspecies.

• Silky Sifaka Propithecus candidus

  A sifaka known for its long, silky white fur. It moves among trees by day in mountain forest in northeastern Madagascar.

• Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena

  In North America, it breeds on shallow lakes in Canada and Alaska and winters mainly along the coast. It dives for fish and crustaceans.

• Northern Birch Mouse Sicista betulina

  The northern birch mouse is a small rodent with a slender body and a long tail. It is most active around the start and end of the night and hibernates underground in winter.

• Blue Mountain Vireo Vireo osburni

  This vireo lives in humid montane forests of north-western Jamaica and feeds within dense leaf cover.

• Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula

  The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.

• Menetries's Warbler Curruca mystacea

  Menetries's Warbler is a small migrant that breeds in scrub in Southwest Asia. In breeding plumage, the male has a dark head while the female is brownish gray.

• Bohor Reedbuck Redunca redunca

  The bohor reedbuck is an antelope with yellowish-brown to gray-brown fur. It hides among tall grasses and mainly eats grass.

• Sulawesi Pitta Erythropitta celebensis

  The Sulawesi Pitta inhabits forest and scrub on Sulawesi. Adults show vivid blue, green and red plumage, and search the forest floor for insects and earthworms.

• Brazilian Porcupine Coendou prehensilis

  The Brazilian porcupine occurs in the northern Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Adults have three-banded quills along the back, giving a pale yellowish appearance with dark brown markings. In Pernambuco, a specimen was collected in lowland evergreen rainforest surrounded by sugar-cane fields.

• White-mantled Barbet Capito hypoleucus

  This barbet lives in the north-central Colombian Andes. It uses humid montane and gallery forest and feeds on fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Honduran White Bat Ectophylla alba

  This small bat's fur ranges from gray to white. It has a yellow leaf-shaped nose and spends the day in a shelter made from a folded leaf.

• Rockrunner Achaetops pycnopygius

  A small bird centered in west-central Namibia, with a marginal extension into Angola. It forages on the ground, and adults bring arthropods and caterpillars to nestlings.