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• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  

  A migratory sandpiper that uses shallow freshwater wetlands in Australia, walking through water as it searches for small prey.

• Mexican Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) aureogaster

  

  The Mexican gray squirrel lives among forest trees and is notable for its reddish-brown belly and flanks. Its coat varies across its range.

• Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus

  

  The Pilotbird forages among leaf litter in wet forests of southeastern Australia. It is reddish brown overall, with scaled-looking breast and belly feathers and a red eye. The source describes two subspecies whose back color and belly scalloping differ in brightness.

• Kowari Dasyuroides byrnei

  

  The kowari is a small marsupial with grayish fur and a black brush on its tail. It hunts alone at night on Australia's rocky inland plains.

• Fiji Woodswallow Artamus mentalis

  

  The Fiji Woodswallow lives on islands in Fiji. An older paper recorded it as the subspecies A. leucorhynchus mentalis and described aerial insect hunting and cooperative care of young.

• Dong Bac Trident Bat Aselliscus dongbacanus

  

  This bat is known from limestone karst in northeastern Vietnam. The original description named it Aselliscus dongbacana; this entry uses the current Mammal Diversity Database spelling, Aselliscus dongbacanus.

• Golden-fronted Leafbird Chloropsis aurifrons

  The Golden-fronted Leafbird lives in forests and wooded areas of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, moving through foliage in the canopy.

• Desert Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys deserti

  The desert kangaroo rat digs burrows among the dunes of arid southwestern North America and is mainly active at night.

• Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni

  Swainson’s Hawk breeds in western North America and migrates to South America for winter; it eats many insects outside the breeding season.

• 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.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Shamel's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus shameli

  This medium-sized horseshoe bat occurs in mainland Southeast Asia. Its coat varies in color, and records from Thailand and Cambodia include several forest types.

• Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus

  The Yellow-tufted Woodpecker occurs in tropical South America. Its yellow head tuft and red belly stand out; in Bolivia it perches in forest canopies, often on dead branches or snags.

• Wood Lemming Myopus schisticolor

  The wood lemming lives in the moss layer on the floor of wet coniferous forests. It gathers and hides moss in autumn to eat during winter.

• Keel-billed toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus

  A toucan of Central America and nearby regions, with a black body, yellow throat and cheeks, and a large multicoloured bill.

• Montane Javan Niviventer Niviventer lepturus

  The montane Javan niviventer is a rodent of Java's highlands. Its back is described as soft gray-brown, with a white to cream underside.

• Red-faced Malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus

  The Red-faced Malkoha is a long-tailed cuckoo with a red face and green bill, native to Sri Lanka. It uses the forest canopy and dense undergrowth.

• Thick-thumbed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) rosseti

  This small bat is known from Cambodia, southern Thailand, and Vietnam. At one Vietnamese site, it was observed flying low over thickets and maize fields while foraging.

• Green Heron Butorides virescens

  This small heron waits motionless for fish in shallow water. It sometimes drops twigs or insects onto the water to lure fish.

• Rüppell's Fox Vulpes rueppellii

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

• Yellow-ringed White-eye Zosterops wallacei

  This white-eye is recorded on Sumba Island, Indonesia, in forest, forest edge, scrub, and cultivated land.

• Sunda Clouded Leopard Neofelis diardi

  A forest-dwelling cat of Borneo and Sumatra, known for its cloud-shaped coat markings.

• Wattled Broadbill Sarcophanops steerii

  The Wattled Broadbill is a resident bird of Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands. Males have a purplish back, rusty tail, pink underparts, and a pale blue wattle around the eye; females have white underparts.

• Greater Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris

  The greater hog badger has a long, projecting snout and strong claws for digging.