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• Sanford's Brown Lemur Eulemur sanfordi

  

  Sanford's brown lemur inhabits forests in northern Madagascar. Males have conspicuous cheek fur, and females differ in coat color.

• Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

  A tall wader of Australian wetlands. It searches beneath the water for small animals with its chestnut head and neck above a long, upturned bill.

• Rio Acarí Marmoset Mico acariensis

  The Rio Acarí marmoset is a small monkey from the southern Brazilian Amazon. Bright orange patches stand out against much of its white upper coat, while its wild behavior and diet remain poorly studied.

• Rand's Warbler Randia pseudozosterops

  Rand's Warbler is endemic to eastern Madagascar's humid lowland forest. It has an olive-gray head with a prominent pale eyebrow and forages for insects in treetops.

• Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus

  The hispid pocket mouse has an olive-buff back and a pale underside. It stores food in grassland burrows and mainly eats seeds.

• Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota

  An East African bird guide places the Olive-green Camaroptera in forest undergrowth in Uganda and western Kenya. Its upperparts are dull olive-green; the underparts are grayish-white, with dusky buff on the chest and flanks.

• Hovel's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) hoveli

  This account follows the southern Levantine lineage treated as Myotis hoveli sensu stricto in 2021.

• Amur Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone incei

  In Hong Kong it is recorded mainly as an autumn passage migrant, with fewer spring records. The Hong Kong avifauna says it prefers closed-canopy woodland. Males in breeding plumage grow long central tail feathers.

• Peters' Mouse Lemur Microcebus myoxinus

  Peters's mouse lemur is a small primate of western Madagascar. At night it searches for fruit and insects in trees, usually foraging alone.

• Chachapoyas Antpitta Grallaria gravesi

  Birds of the World describes the Chachapoyas Antpitta as a recently recognized Peruvian endemic that remains little studied.

• Southern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys torridus

  Its back ranges from gray to cinnamon, while the underside and tail tip are pale. At night it uses burrows in dry grassland and scrub and hunts insects and scorpions.

• Huayco Tinamou Rhynchotus maculicollis

  This tinamou inhabits the Andes of Bolivia. It uses tall grass and shrub-covered grassland, including herbaceous meadows and cultivated areas.

• Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana

  Blanford's fox is a small fox with large ears and a bushy tail. It can also climb among rocky slopes.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Eastern Free-tailed Bat Ozimops ridei

  This eastern Australian free-tailed bat has chocolate-brown upperparts and paler underparts. It uses tree hollows and buildings as roosts.

• White-throated Nightjar Eurostopodus mystacalis

  Streaked in black, brown, grey, and fawn, it blends into leaves and twigs by day and catches insects near the ground at night. It occurs in eastern Australia's coastal forests and woodlands.

• Southern Highland Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea comes

  This cavy is known from the southern Bolivian and northern Argentine Andes. Its back is mottled olive, brown, and tan, while its underside mixes yellow and white. At one Bolivian valley site, a colony was observed foraging by day near burrows.

• Hume's Treecreeper Certhia manipurensis

  Hume’s Treecreeper has a brown back with pale streaks and spots and an orange-brown rump. In Yunnan, the shanensis form occurs in forest and searches bark for small prey.

• Long-tailed Planigale Planigale ingrami

  Ingram's planigale is a marsupial with a tiny body, flattened head, and long tail. It is active at night and uses cracks in the ground for shelter and foraging in the dry season.

• Grey-winged Cotinga Lipaugus conditus

  This cotinga was recorded in mountain cloud forests in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. A field report described calling males as similar to females but brighter, with a greyer face.

• 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.

• Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata

  The Half-collared Kingfisher is small, with a blue back, pale orange underparts and a white throat.

• Milne-Edwards's Macaque Macaca thibetana

  Milne-Edwards's macaque lives in mountainous areas of central-eastern China. It can carry food in its cheek pouches and eat later in a safer place.

• Sulphur-breasted Parakeet Aratinga maculata

  The Sulphur-breasted Parakeet is recorded in northern Brazil. Its 2005 description used the name Aratinga pintoi; a later taxonomic paper explains that name as a synonym of Aratinga maculata.