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• Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) niger

  

  A medium-sized North American tree squirrel, notable for its reddish-brown coat and red belly. It also occurs in open woodlands and urban areas.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa Stylodipus andrewsi

  

  Andrew's Three-toed Jerboa occurs from Mongolia's Gobi region into northern China. Stylodipus species have relatively shorter hind limbs than some related jerboa genera.

• Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ruficollis

  

  A bird with a long curved yellow bill, a bold white eyebrow, and a chestnut breast. Hong Kong birds are thought to derive from captive stock, so local records are kept separate from the natural range.

• Red-crested Tree Rat Santamartamys rufodorsalis

  

  This arboreal rodent is known from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. In the 2017 species account, the known evidence comprised two museum specimens and one photographic record.

• Masked Booby Sula dactylatra

  

  A large seabird with a white body, black wings and tail, and dark skin at the base of the bill; it catches fish and squid over tropical seas.

• Chihuahua Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus eremicus

  The Chihuahua pocket mouse is a small rodent of dry country in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

• Rufous-fronted Bushtit Aegithalos iouschistos

  The Rufous-fronted Bushtit lives in forests and scrub from central Nepal east through the Himalayas. In the nominate form, a broad black mask and buff crown stripe are distinctive; outside the breeding season it forages in flocks.

• Gambian Rat Cricetomys gambianus

  A rat with large cheek pouches for carrying food, it rests in burrows or hollow trees by day and searches for food at night.

• Grey-throated Rail Canirallus oculeus

  This rail lives in lowland rainforest in western and central Africa. It uses ravines and stream edges, feeding on insects, crabs, snails, and small lizards.

• Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis

  The black-flanked rock wallaby lives among rocky outcrops in western and south-central Australia. A dark flank stripe and use of rock crevices are characteristic.

• Yellow-wattled Lapwing Vanellus malabaricus

  The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a plover of dry, open country in the Indian subcontinent. It may make short movements in response to rain.

• Hairy Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma villosum

  The hairy big-eyed bat has tricolored dorsal fur and long guard hairs. A 2024 report documented the first Cozumel Island record in Mexico from one bat captured in semideciduous forest.

• Southern Shrikebill Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides

  The Southern Shrikebill occurs in New Caledonia and Vanuatu, using moist tropical forest, including heavily altered forest. It searches vegetation and bushes for invertebrates.

• Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia minor

  The lesser naked-backed fruit bat is a fruit bat recorded on New Guinea and nearby islands. Its wing membranes are visible across the back; the treatment considers a Sulawesi record uncertain.

• Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata

  This seabird has a dark upper surface and a white belly. Outside the breeding season it spends time at sea, feeding on squid and other prey near the surface. Breeding areas differ between subspecies.

• Coppery Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirops cupreus

  The coppery ring-tailed possum lives in forests and scrub of interior New Guinea. It climbs and is active at night, feeding on leaves and other plant parts.

• Andean Swallow Orochelidon andecola

  An Andean swallow that searches for food over high grasslands. Its dark blue back, gray rump, and pale underside are useful marks.

• Australian Humpback Dolphin Sousa sahulensis

  The Australian humpback dolphin lives in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea. It has a hump in front of the dorsal fin, and its color varies with age and population.

• Chilean Skua Stercorarius chilensis

  The Chilean Skua is a seabird of southern South American coasts and offshore waters. It sometimes takes food from other seabirds.

• Smith's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus rupestris

  This hare lives in rocky country. It hides in crevices or beneath rocks by day and feeds on grasses and shrub shoots at night.

• Mangrove Golden Whistler Pachycephala melanura

  Males have a black head and breast, a yellow nape band, and an olive back. Females are duller, and the yellow on their underparts varies among subspecies.

• Chinese Red Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) erythrotis

  The Chinese red pika is a small pika found in the highlands of western China. It belongs to a closely related group associated with stony habitats.

• Rufous Potoo Phyllaemulor bracteatus

  The Rufous Potoo is a nocturnal bird with deep rufous plumage and conspicuous white spots. By day it can look like a dead leaf while perched on a branch.