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• Santa Marta Warbler Myiothlypis basilica

  

  This warbler lives in the understory of humid forest in the Santa Marta Mountains. Its black head has white markings, its upperparts are olive, and its underside is yellow.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni

  Hutton's Vireo is a small gray-green bird with pale markings around its eyes. It searches among leaves for insects and ranges from western North America into northern Central America.

• Collared Pika Ochotona (Pika) collaris

  The collared pika has a collar-like pattern from the nape to the shoulders. It uses rocky slopes and nearby meadows, gathering plants for winter.

• Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus

  The Capped Heron is an uncommon but widespread heron of South American lowlands, barely extending into eastern Panama. It is usually seen alone around wetlands, forested ponds, and rivers.

• Silky Short-tailed Bat Carollia brevicaudum

  Carollia brevicauda occurs across parts of Central and South America. A study in the Colombian Andes followed one colony that used an artificial refuge.

• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• Humboldt's Squirrel Monkey Saimiri cassiquiarensis

  This squirrel monkey occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The population treated as the nominate subspecies has a reddish-tan back, golden-yellow bases to the crown hairs, and orange forearms. Brazilian records include seasonally flooded, riparian, and secondary forests.

• Nahan's Francolin Ptilopachus nahani

  Nahan's Partridge is a small brown bird found at only a handful of locations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is known for a red eye ring and for using a locally named “God's tree” to roost and nest.

• Perote Deermouse Peromyscus bullatus

  The Perote deermouse has tawny upperparts, a pale underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is recorded in a highland basin of central Mexico.

• Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus

  It occurs in wetlands, swamps, mangroves, and marshes in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. It often stays hidden in dense vegetation while searching for insects and other invertebrates.

• Indian Gray Mongoose Urva edwardsii

  A mongoose of South Asia and Arabia, recognized by its silver-gray speckled coat and white-tipped tail.

• Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. Adult males show a yellow eyebrow, blue rump and tail, and a blue belly patch. It is now treated separately from related forms once grouped with it.

• Sierra Madre Occidental Pocket Gopher Megascapheus sheldoni

  The Sierra Madre Occidental pocket gopher is a rodent of the highlands of western Mexico. It inhabits high-elevation pine-oak forests and ranges from northwestern Chihuahua through Durango to western Zacatecas and northeastern Nayarit.

• White-throated Bee-eater Merops albicollis

  A bee-eater with a white throat and black-and-white striped head. It breeds along the southern edge of the Sahara and moves to humid forests in western and central Africa after breeding.

• American Marten Martes americana

  A member of the weasel family found in forests of Alaska, Canada and the northern United States.

• Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea

  A stork with a white body, long legs and a long bill. It breeds in parts of Southeast Asia and forages in groups in wetlands such as mangroves and tidal flats.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• Brown Antechinus Antechinus stuartii

  This small carnivorous marsupial has a gray-brown back and large, thin ears. It lives in forests and woodlands of northern and eastern Australia and searches for insects at night.

• Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii

  Livingstone's Turaco is green, with a white-tipped crest and red on the inner wings. It eats fruit and berries.

• Zebu cattle Bos indicus

  Zebu cattle are the group treated as Bos indicus in the FAO account of tropical livestock. A hump over the shoulders or neck is characteristic, and the account describes heat tolerance and relatively low feed requirements.

• Mariana Kingfisher Todiramphus albicilla

  The Mariana Kingfisher was recorded in a forest-bird survey on Tinian. A sample collected on Saipan is described as white-headed in a phylogenetic study.

• Novaes' Bald Uakari Cacajao novaesi

  This uakari is restricted to western Amazonas, Brazil. Its back is white to yellow, while the belly and limbs are reddish orange. It has been recorded in both seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest.