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• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.

• Sickle-billed Vanga Falculea palliata

  The Sickle-billed Vanga is a black-and-white bird with a long, slender bill that curves down. It searches among branches for food in Madagascar's forest and savanna habitats.

• Iberian Hare Lepus granatensis

  The Iberian hare has large eyes, long ears and powerful hind legs. It is native only to the Iberian Peninsula and prefers open, level ground.

• Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus

  The Bridled Tern is widespread across tropical and subtropical seas. It forages at patches of floating seaweed and may rest on floating objects at sea.

• Indian Giant Squirrel Ratufa indica

  A large squirrel endemic to India that lives in forest canopies.

• Puna Ibis Plegadis ridgwayi

  This ibis lives in Andean wetlands. Breeding adults have a chestnut head through upper breast and a black body with greenish iridescence.

• Pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata

  A warm-water dolphin whose spots increase as it grows.

• Plate-billed Mountain Toucan Andigena laminirostris

  The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan stands out for its blue-grey underparts and large bill patterned in red, black, and ivory. It mainly eats fruit, but also takes small animals and eggs during the breeding season.

• Black-crowned Dwarf Marmoset Mico humilis

  The black-crowned dwarf marmoset is a small monkey known from a limited area of central Amazonian Brazil. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it in Mico but notes that this placement remains tentative.

• Song Thrush Turdus philomelos

  A thrush with brown upperparts and a spotted breast that repeats short phrases in its song.

• Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys irroratus

  The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is currently placed in Heteromys. It has coarse grey-brown fur and cheek pouches, and searches for seeds at night, carrying them to burrows.

• Jacobin Cuckoo Clamator jacobinus

  Adults show a strong contrast between black upperparts and wings and a white underside. The cuckoo ranges from sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

• Welwitch's bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) welwitschii

  Welwitch's bat has a netlike pattern in its wing membrane. Records are scattered across a broad part of Africa.

• Great Stone-curlew Esacus recurvirostris

  The Great Stone-curlew has a large bill that curves upward. It lives on open ground near water, such as sandbars and tidal flats.

• Peter's Climbing Rat Tylomys nudicaudus

  Peter's Climbing Rat is a large rodent with a long, naked tail and reddish-brown back. It is active at night and around dawn in forests.

• White-lined Antbird Myrmoborus lophotes

  This antbird lives in lowland forest of southeastern Peru, chiefly in Guadua bamboo stands. Males are dark gray and females rufous, and both have a prominent crest.

• Channel Islands Gray Fox Urocyon littoralis

  This small fox lives only on six of the Channel Islands off California. Each island has its own distinct subspecies.

• Blue-eared Barbet Psilopogon duvaucelii

  This small barbet occurs in southern Thailand. It uses rainforest, secondary forest, and forest edges, and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Rufous Dog-faced Bat Molossops neglectus

  This bat has reddish dark-brown fur and feeds on flying insects. Its records are separated between northern and southeastern South America, and southern specimens have tended to be smaller than northern ones.

• Orange-billed Lorikeet Neopsittacus pullicauda

  This small lorikeet lives in New Guinea's mountain forests. It feeds on nectar, pollen, and fruit, and its head and belly colors vary somewhat by subspecies.

• Eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus

  A spotted marsupial that searches for insects and other food at night.

• Red-eyed Scimitar Babbler Erythrogenys imberbis

  Erythrogenys imberbis is a scimitar babbler of Myanmar and Thailand. Clements' 2024 checklist treats it as a species split from the Himalayan E. erythrogenys.

• Great Jerboa Allactaga (Allactaga) major

  This five-toed jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It digs burrows in open steppe and semi-desert and eats plants and insects.

• Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumenifer

  This large stork lives south of the Sahara in Africa. It scavenges in grasslands and savannas and may also search for food around villages and rubbish dumps. Sparse head and neck feathers and a large throat pouch give it a distinctive profile.