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• Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus

  

  The Red-backed Buttonquail is a small ground bird marked by a rufous collar and a pale wing panel. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus

  The grey long-eared bat has very long ears and catches moths and other prey in flight over open grassland.

• Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus

  This is the coastal Striated Fieldwren. It is streaked with black, and males have white eyebrows and throats while females have brown ones. It is treated as a separate species from the inland Rufous Fieldwren.

• Northern Tigrina Leopardus tigrinus

  The northern tiger cat is a small, slender wild cat with rosette-like spots. It lives alone and is active mainly at night.

• Rufous-tailed Jacamar Galbula ruficauda

  The Rufous-tailed Jacamar lives along lowland forest edges from Central into South America. It waits on a branch and catches insects in flight.

• Black-bearded Flying Fox Pteropus melanopogon

  A colony of black-bearded flying foxes was recorded roosting in mangroves on Pulau Marsegu, off Seram Island, Indonesia.

• Asian Houbara Chlamydotis macqueenii

  A large bustard of arid regions across Asia. Birds breeding in northeast Asia migrate south, while some southern populations are resident.

• Common Shrew Sorex araneus

  The common shrew occurs from Europe east to Lake Baikal. It has a differently colored back, flanks, and underside, and searches woodland, grassland, and other habitats for invertebrates.

• Gray Kestrel Falco ardosiaceus

  The Gray Kestrel is a small raptor widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It searches for insects and lizards from a perch.

• Black Mastiff Bat Molossus rufus

  This large free-tailed bat varies from black to reddish, brown, or yellowish on the back, with paler underparts. It uses forest and savanna habitats and roosts in buildings, tree hollows, rocks, and palms.

• Tiger Shrike Lanius tigrinus

  The male Tiger Shrike has a gray head, a black facial mask, and a reddish-brown, barred back. Most individuals migrate seasonally.

• Rüppell's Fox Vulpes rueppellii

  Rüppell’s fox lives in deserts. Its large ears and white tail tip are distinctive.

• Regent Whistler Pachycephala schlegelii

  The Regent Whistler is marked by a male’s black head and yellow collar and a female’s gray head. It stays year-round in New Guinea’s mountains and feeds mainly on insects.

• Greater Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus nippon

  Rhinolophus nippon is a large horseshoe bat recorded in Japan. In a 2003 study, adult females in Yamaguchi Prefecture foraged in open forest areas and along woodland paths.

• Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus

  An African starling with glossy green and blue plumage and a bronze-glossed purple tail. It eats insects and fruit.

• Greater Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata

  This bat is marked by two white lines on its back. It roosts by day under bridges, in caves, or in hollow trees, then hunts insects at night.

• Blue-winged Leafbird Chloropsis cochinchinensis

  In the Chinese subspecies C. c. kinneari, males have blue wings and a black throat, while females have a blue-green throat.

• Short-eared Rock Wallaby Petrogale brachyotis

  The short-eared rock wallaby has short ears and a bushy tail. It lives near rocky hills and gorges in northern Australia.

• White-eared Catbird Ailuroedus buccoides

  White-eared Catbirds live in forests in northwestern New Guinea and nearby islands. Their green backs and white ear patches stand out, and they eat fruit and insects.

• San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys gravipes

  The San Quintín kangaroo rat lives on a small coastal plain in Baja California, Mexico. It was rediscovered in 2017, and later surveys confirmed its presence.

• Varied tit Sittiparus varius

  A small bird of lowland and low-mountain woods in Japan. Its bluish-grey wings and chestnut belly stand out.

• Goeldi's Marmoset Callimico goeldii

  Goeldi's marmoset is a small primate with shaggy black hair. It relies heavily on mushrooms during the dry season, when fruit is scarce.

• Alstrom's Warbler Seicercus soror

  Alstrom’s Warbler, Phylloscopus soror, breeds in China and winters from southwestern China into Indochina. In Hong Kong it is a passage migrant in autumn and early winter.

• Yunnan Hare Lepus comus

  The Yunnan hare lives in foothills near farmland and in hillside scrub or grassland. It forages at night on grasses and young shoots and leaves.