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• Pemba Flying Fox Pteropus voeltzkowi

  

  The Pemba flying fox is a large bat found on Pemba Island off Tanzania. Its tawny fur can look orange, its ears are black, and it forages for fruit at dusk.

• White-headed Barbet Lybius leucocephalus

  

  The White-headed Barbet is an African bird whose black-and-white plumage varies geographically. It is often found near fig trees.

• Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata

  

  The Smooth-coated Otter ranges across South and Southeast Asia. It has short, smooth brown fur and uses waterside habitats such as rivers, wetlands, and mangroves.

• 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.

• Mainland Dusky Antechinus Antechinus mimetes

  

  This small marsupial occurs in southeastern Australia. It is usually regarded as terrestrial, but camera traps at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, Victoria, recorded it visiting tree baits about 3.5 m high on 29 occasions.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Anosi Mouse Lemur Microcebus tanosi

  This small lemur is recorded in the Anosy region of southeastern Madagascar. Its back is dark brown and its head is reddish. Night transects at Sainte Luce from 2011 to 2018 recorded it in all four study fragments in littoral forest.

• Grey-lored Broadbill Serilophus rubropygius

  This bird occurs in parts of northeastern India and nearby countries. The 2023 eBird taxonomy update distinguishes it from the Silver-breasted Broadbill by its gray lores and rounded wing tips with only tiny white tips.

• Bifax Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus bifax

  It has large ears, a simple noseleaf, a brown back, and paler underparts. It roosts by day under bark or in tree hollows.

• Margaret's Batis Batis margaritae

  This small bird has a disjunct range in western Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern Zambia. It uses humid forest and forest edges and feeds on invertebrates.

• Sand cat Felis margarita

  A desert cat with pale sandy fur, large ears, and fur-covered foot pads.

• American White Ibis Eudocimus albus

  This wading bird has a white body, long red bill, and red legs. It probes shallow water and mud for small animals.

• Severtzov's Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) severtzovi

  Severtzov's jerboa is a jerboa of Central Asia. It runs bipedally, and a speed of about 40 km/h is reported for this species.

• Two-banded Plover Charadrius falklandicus

  This plover occurs in southern South America. Breeding adults have two black bands across the breast.

• Greater Red Musk Shrew Crocidura flavescens

  The greater red musk shrew is a large shrew of southern Africa, where it uses moist grassland and woodland. It has also been recorded in gardens and near settlements.

• Gray-collared Becard Pachyramphus major

  The Gray-collared Becard is described from semi-open forests in Mexico and Guatemala. Males have a black cap and back with a pale grey nape and underside; females have a brown crown and back.

• Mountain Reedbuck Redunca fulvorufula

  This antelope lives in dry mountain grasslands. Only males have horns, and grass is its main food.

• Lafresnaye's Vanga Xenopirostris xenopirostris

  Lafresnaye's Vanga is endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar. It searches dead wood with a thick, flattened bill and feeds on invertebrates and sometimes small chameleons.

• Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia bakeri

  Individuals have been captured in premontane forest in eastern Caldas, Colombia. The noseleaf, lower-lip warts, and skin around the mouth are lighter in color, and the dorsal fur is paler and nearly uniform.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Phou Khao Khouay Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros khaokhouayensis

  This bat has records from forests in Laos and Vietnam. In Laos, surveys captured it in both intact and disturbed evergreen forest.

• Red Tanager Piranga flava

  The Red Tanager occurs in open woodland and forest edges across eastern and southern South America, with a northern population in southern Guyana and adjacent far northern Brazil. In Bolivia, lowland forms are recorded south of the Cochabamba basin and in the Santa Cruz lowlands.

• Common Cusimanse Crossarchus obscurus

  The common cusimanse is a small mongoose relative of West African forests. It lives in groups and searches among leaf litter and rotting logs for small animals and fruit.

• Madagascan Buttonquail Turnix nigricollis

  This small ground bird resembles a quail, and females are more colorful than males. The male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.