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• Yellow-breasted Pipit Anthus chloris

  

  The Yellow-breasted Pipit inhabits highland grasslands in southern Africa. Breeding adults are yellow below, with females slightly duller than males.

• Tailed Tailless Bat Anoura caudifer

  

  Anoura caudifer is a small bat ranging from northern South America through Brazil to northwestern Argentina. It has a long, narrow muzzle and an extendable tongue for taking nectar, and occurs in humid tropical forests.

• Sandstone Shrikethrush Colluricincla woodwardi

  

  The Sandstone Shrike-thrush lives among sandstone rocks in northern Australia. It walks between rocks while searching for small lizards, grasshoppers, and spiders.

• Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus kaapori

  

  It has cream-colored cheeks and shoulders, a dark crown, and a tail that helps it move among branches. A dry-season study in Pará found fruit to be its main food.

• Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus

  

  In breeding plumage it has a rusty-red neck and yellow-orange tufts behind the eyes; in winter it becomes gray and white.

• Florida Bonneted Bat Eumops floridanus

  

  A large bat of southern Florida, it catches insects in flight and roosts in tree cavities and some building spaces.

• Sickle-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus

  The Sickle-winged Nightjar is a small nightjar found from central and southeastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to northern Argentina. A Cotinga paper records regional differences in movement and reports that a male observed in southeastern Argentina could not be identified by wing shape in flight.

• Mehely's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus mehelyi

  Mehely's horseshoe bat has a patchy Mediterranean range, roosts in caves and feeds mostly on moths.

• Lizard Buzzard Kaupifalco monogrammicus

  The Lizard Buzzard is a small raptor of sub-Saharan Africa. Its grey head and back contrast with a black stripe down its white throat.

• Merriam's Pocket Mouse Perognathus merriami

  Merriam’s pocket mouse has smooth, silky fur and a white belly. It is active at night and uses burrows in the ground.

• Beach Stone-curlew Esacus magnirostris

  The Beach Stone-curlew is a large shorebird that walks beaches and estuaries with a heavy bill.

• Southern Ningaui Ningaui yvonnae

  This small marsupial lives in semi-arid parts of southern Australia. It has short light-brown fur and a long, thin tail, and occurs in open heath and low mallee scrub.

• Black-spotted Barbet Capito niger

  This barbet lives in moist lowland forest and swamps in northern South America. Both sexes excavate nest cavities in tree stumps, and the diet consists mainly of fruit and oily seeds.

• Northern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis borealis

  The northern right whale dolphin has no dorsal fin, a black back and a white underside. It travels in groups in offshore waters of the North Pacific.

• Spot-breasted Oriole Icterus pectoralis

  The Spot-breasted Oriole ranges from southern Mexico to Costa Rica. It is marked by black breast spots and builds a long hanging nest from grasses or fine roots.

• Angolan colobus Colobus angolensis

  This monkey has a striking black-and-white pattern and a long tail. It moves among trees using its tail for balance and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Minahasa Masked Owl Tyto inexspectata

  A forest owl endemic to Sulawesi. Accounts describe a dark-edged facial disc and dark bars across its cinnamon-colored plumage.

• Damara Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) princeps

  Geosciurus princeps is a ground squirrel recorded in western Namibia and southern Angola. It has a pale cinnamon back, a white underside and legs, and a white stripe along each side.

• White-eyed Gull Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus

  An adult in breeding plumage has a black hood and white crescents around the eyes, but the irises are dark brown. This gull is endemic to the Red Sea.

• Mexican Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) mexicana

  The Mexican mouse opossum is a small marsupial recorded from eastern Mexico through much of Central America to eastern Panama. A dark mask surrounds its large eyes.

• Snow-capped Manakin Lepidothrix nattereri

  The Snow-capped Manakin lives in lowland humid forest in Brazil and Bolivia. Males are marked by white on the crown, nape, and rump.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

  Brants's gerbil lives in southern African grasslands and has a white-tipped tail.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Salim Ali's Fruit Bat Latidens salimalii

  This uncommon fruit bat lives in Tamil Nadu, southern India. It roosts in cave clusters and leaves to fly in the evening.