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• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus illigeri

  This saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forests of Peru. Its mottled back, black crown, and reddish-orange rump help describe its appearance.

• Golden Masked Owl Tyto aurantia

  This owl lives in New Britain's tropical forests. Its plumage ranges from pale gold to rufous, and its facial disc has a finely speckled rim.

• Unadorned Rock Wallaby Petrogale inornata

  Its coat shifts between gray and brown with season and local rock or soil color. In observations of a low-density colony, individuals stayed close to rocky outcrops while foraging. The current recorded range is central coastal Queensland.

• Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus

  The Olive-backed Oriole lives in semi-open woodland and eucalypt forest. It has an olive back, red eye, and streaked pale underparts.

• Sooty Mangabey Cercocebus atys

  The sooty mangabey is a monkey of West African forests. It has dark fur and uses both the ground and trees in groups.

• Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus

  The Vieillot's Black Weaver lives along forest edges and in grassland in western and central Africa. Plumage differs by sex and subspecies, and birds may forage in flocks.

• Greater Northern Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon jobensis

  This large free-tailed bat is recorded in tropical Australia. It has large joined ears and a wrinkled face. Its back is dark and its underside is paler.

• Great Woodswallow Artamus maximus

  The Great Woodswallow is the largest woodswallow, marked by a dark grey head and white rump and belly.

• Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) murina

  Linnaeus’s Mouse Opossum is a nocturnal marsupial with large dark eyes and a prehensile tail. It occurs in northern South America, prefers insects and also eats fruit.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Eurasian Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus

  This small shrew has a long, pointed snout and very small eyes and ears. In Britain it occurs in places with grass, leaf litter, or other ground cover.

• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus

  The Long-billed Dowitcher probes mud and shallow water with its long bill to find small aquatic animals.

• Japanese flying squirrel Pteromys momonga

  A Japanese forest squirrel that glides between trees. It is mainly active in the treetops at night.

• Scrub Blackbird Dives warczewiczi

  The Scrub Blackbird is a black bird found in western Peru's Andean foothills and nearby areas. It searches for food in scrub and semi-open places.

• Gray Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus migratorius

  The HMW account under Cricetulus migratorius describes a dark gray-brown to sandy-gray back, white to grayish-white underside, and short whitish tail. The Mongolia account records it in dry hills and mountains, oases and valleys with shrubs and herbs; it gathers plant material and stores food near its burrow.

• Least Bittern Botaurus exilis

  A small heron of freshwater and brackish marshes with tall aquatic plants. It may wait motionless among reeds and watch for small prey.

• North Andean Huemul Hippocamelus antisensis

  The North Andean huemul moves across steep Andean slopes on short, strong legs. The male’s branched antlers and dark Y-shaped facial mark are distinctive.

• Black-and-red Broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos

  With striking red-and-black plumage and a large colorful bill, it lives in waterside forests of Southeast Asia.

• Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus

  A small wild cat recorded in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

• Mountain Pipit Anthus hoeschi

  This pipit breeds in highland grasslands of Lesotho and South Africa. Pale edges on its dark back feathers and rounded breast markings are useful clues.

• Striped polecat Ictonyx striatus

  A carnivore of Africa with striking white stripes on a black body. It is active alone at night and eats small animals and insects.

• Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena

  This large albatross breeds on islands in the South Atlantic. Adults are mostly white, and birds range widely across the South Atlantic outside the breeding period.

• 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.