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• Whistling Heron Syrigma sibilatrix

  

  The Whistling Heron searches for food in open grasslands and shallow water. In Bolivia it is recorded from the lowlands to the southern Andean foothills.

• American Marten Martes americana

  

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

• Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena iris

  

  It is about 15 cm long. Six subspecies are listed from southern Ecuador to northern Peru.

• White-tipped Thomasomys Thomasomys caudivarius

  

  Thomasomys caudivarius is a mouse of the western Andes from Ecuador to northern Peru. It has soft brown back fur and a long tail with a white tip. It is described as nocturnal and terrestrial, feeding on seeds and insects.

• Plain-backed Snowfinch Pyrgilauda blanfordi

  

  This small sparrow-family bird lives in dry highlands of Tibet and the Himalayas. It searches for food on the ground.

• Yellow-handed Titi Cheracebus lucifer

  

  This titi monkey lives in forests of the western Amazon. By day it moves through the trees in small family groups and feeds mainly on fruit. Hand color varies.

• Martens's Warbler Seicercus omeiensis

  Martens’s Warbler (Seicercus omeiensis) breeds in China and winters in Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is a rare winter visitor to closed-canopy woodland and shrubland.

• 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.

• Sclater's Lark Spizocorys sclateri

  A lark of dry, open landscapes in western southern Africa. In its core range it is mostly sedentary or moves only locally.

• Red wolf Canis rufus

  Once widespread in the eastern United States, the red wolf now has a wild population in a limited area of northeastern North Carolina.

• Plum-faced Lorikeet Oreopsittacus arfaki

  This small lorikeet lives in the mountains of New Guinea. It feeds on nectar, flowers, and fruit in the canopy and mid-storey, often in pairs or small flocks.

• Parma wallaby Notamacropus parma

  A wallaby that rests in thickets by day and feeds on grasses at night.

• Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor

  The Barred Becard is about 10.5–11 cm long and has fine barring underneath. It is rare or uncommon in humid cloud forest on the eastern slope of Bolivia’s northern Andes. Alone or in pairs, it gleans arthropods and also eats fruit.

• 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.

• Lesser Grey Shrike Lanius minor

  The Lesser Grey Shrike hunts large beetles and other insects in open farmland and grassland. It migrates from European breeding areas to southern Africa.

• Stoliczka's Asian Trident Bat Aselliscus stoliczkanus

  Stoliczka's trident bat has a three-pointed noseleaf and has been recorded roosting in caves in Yunnan.

• Buff-bellied Tanager Thlypopsis inornata

  The Buff-bellied Tanager occurs in north-western Peru, with a record from extreme south-eastern Ecuador. It feeds on small arthropods in dry highland scrub. The account says females are duller than males and juveniles resemble females.

• Diminutive Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus

  The Argentine biodiversity profile treats this bat as Neoeptesicus diminutus. Its back is golden chestnut, its underside gray-yellow to ochre, and the profile lists forests, pampas, and humid savannas as habitats.

• Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis

  A stork with a red face and long yellow bill that forages in shallow African wetlands.

• Southern Tigrina Leopardus guttulus

  The Southern Tigrina is a small cat with thick-edged markings on yellow-brown fur. It ranges from Brazil to eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, and hunts small mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Red-throated Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon rufigula

  The Red-throated Cliff Swallow is a small swallow with a black and glossy blue-black back and rufous markings around the face. It catches flying insects in flocks and nests in colonies near cliffs and gorges.

• Sunda Shrew Crocidura monticola

  The Sunda shrew has gray-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. Under the current taxonomy cited in the account, it occurs on Java and is found in montane forest.

• Philippine Frogmouth Batrachostomus septimus

  The Philippine Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird found only in the Philippine archipelago. It catches large insects and lives in forests and at forest edges.

• Himalayan tahr Hemitragus jemlahicus

  A sure-footed hoofed mammal of the steep Himalayan mountains.