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• Servaline Genet Genetta servalina

  

  The servaline genet occurs in forests across Central and East Africa, from lowlands to mountains. In Tanzania, records also come from separate mountain ranges.

• Spotted Catbird Ailuroedus maculosus

  This bird is recorded in tropical rainforest in northern Queensland. A 2020 field note reported one bird feeding on Calliandra flowers in a garden at Lake Barrine; this is a single local feeding record.

• Bechstein's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) bechsteinii

  This long-eared bat occurs in Europe. It uses mature deciduous woodland and tree holes, including old woodpecker holes, for breeding roosts.

• Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa

  The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.

• Lesser Dog-like Bat Peropteryx (Peropteryx) macrotis

  The lesser dog-like bat is a small bat with long ears and a pouch-like structure on the wing. It flies at night and eats small beetles, flies, and other insects.

• Masked Trogon Trogon personatus

  Several subspecies occur in Central and South American mountains. Plumage varies by sex and region; the adult male is used as an example.

• Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

  The brown dorcopsis is a wallaby of New Guinea forests. A field study in West Papua also recorded its use of riverbank grassland.

• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii

  The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a black parrot with a conspicuous red tail. The sexes differ in plumage, and the species includes several subspecies and disjunct populations.

• Afghan Pika Ochotona (Conothoa) rufescens

  The Afghan pika is a mountain pika with a cream collar edged in russet during summer. It gathers plants, dries them, and stores them in burrows.

• Little Shrikethrush Colluricincla megarhyncha

  It occurs on New Guinea and in northern and eastern Australia. Checklists differ over which populations belong in this species, and plumage varies across its subspecies. It gleans insects from leaves in forests and wooded habitats.

• Common Dwarf Brocket Mazama chunyi

  This small deer has records in Bolivia’s mountain region. A study reported it from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest.

• Rusty-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus frater

  This antwren occurs in separated forest regions of Central and South America. Males are gray, females are olive-brownish, and both accounts describe rusty tones in the wings.

• Moleques do Sul Guinea Pig Cavia intermedia

  The Moleques do Sul guinea pig is known only from a small island off Brazil. It uses a narrow area with grasses and has been reported to breed throughout the year.

• Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris

  The Alpine Accentor is a small bird seen near alpine rocks and snowfields. In the Japanese account, its head and chest are gray-black, its flanks are reddish brown, and its back is finely mottled.

• Chinese Birch Mouse Sicista concolor

  The Chinese birch mouse has a brown, unstriped back and is reported to build grass nests. Recent research suggests that the group historically treated under this name includes multiple species.

• Markham’s Storm Petrel Hydrobates markhami

  This small seabird, about 21–23 cm long, ranges over the tropical Pacific. It breeds in fissures and cavities in salt flats in Peru and Chile.

• Northern flying squirrel Glaucomys sabrinus

  The northern flying squirrel lives in northern coniferous forests and has white-and-gray belly fur and reddish fur along its back.

• Rufous-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus rufogularis

  In southern Yunnan, China, subspecies stevensi forages in small groups in low vegetation.

• Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sedulus

  The lesser woolly horseshoe bat is recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Few specimens are known, but it has been reported roosting in a culvert at a Malaysian national park.

• Black-eared Wood Quail Odontophorus melanotis

  The Black-eared Wood Quail is an elusive bird of humid forests from Honduras to eastern Panama.

• Tres Marias Cottontail Sylvilagus graysoni

  The Tres Marias cottontail is restricted to the Tres Marias Islands off Mexico. It has a brown throat patch and is usually active on the ground at night.

• Grey-chinned Minivet Pericrocotus solaris

  The Grey-chinned Minivet differs in its red or yellow plumage by sex. In Hong Kong it is recorded almost exclusively in closed-canopy woodland, and some birds appear to move to lower areas in winter.

• Forest Shrew Myosorex varius

  The forest shrew is a small gray-to-brown shrew. It searches for insects and other small invertebrates in moist, densely vegetated places.

• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus

  This small waxbill lives in dry thorn savanna and scrub. It has a slim body, long tail, and is often seen in small flocks.