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• Kosrae Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hernsheimi

  

  This fruit-dove lives on Kosrae. Calls are often heard in rainforest, and an older comparison found higher density there than in mangroves. Micronesian forms, including the Kosrae group, have a yellow band at the tail tip.

• Mainland Dusky Antechinus Antechinus mimetes

  

  This small marsupial occurs in southeastern Australia. It is usually regarded as terrestrial, but camera traps at Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve, Victoria, recorded it visiting tree baits about 3.5 m high on 29 occasions.

• Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus

  

  The Greater Racket-tailed Drongo has glossy black plumage, a backward-curving crest and long ornamental tail wires. It is a resident of forests and wooded areas in Singapore.

• Asian Badger Meles leucurus

  

  The Asian badger ranges from eastern Europe to eastern Asia and is well adapted for digging. It has a white face with dark stripes over the eyes, and its coat color varies by region.

• Blue-cheeked Jacamar Galbula cyanicollis

  

  The Blue-cheeked Jacamar has glossy green upperparts and chestnut underparts, with blue cheeks and crown. In humid lowland forest, it feeds on beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.

• Salt-marsh Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) raviventris

  

  This mouse lives in saline and brackish wetlands around San Francisco Bay. Its back is dark brown, while reddish bellies vary by location.

• 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.

• Lesser Bandicoot Rat Bandicota bengalensis

  The lesser bandicoot rat is widespread in South Asia and also occurs near farms and settlements. It digs burrows and is active at night.

• Chameleon Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx lepidus

  This small kingfisher is marked by a white bar on the side of its neck and an orange spot beside the base of its bill.

• Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

  The pocketed free-tailed bat has a pouch-like fold of skin near the hind legs. It roosts in caves, rock crevices, and buildings in dry country.

• Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis

  It breeds only on a plateau on Amsterdam Island and normally breeds every other year.

• Eastern Black-handed Tamarin Saguinus ursula

  This small monkey occurs east of the Tocantins River in Brazil. The EAZA guide notes forest patches toward the Cerrado and Caatinga transition.

• Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris

  This small bird occurs widely across Australia. Its short tail and stubby bill are distinctive, and it searches among tree leaves for food.

• Pemba Flying Fox Pteropus voeltzkowi

  The Pemba flying fox is a large bat found on Pemba Island off Tanzania. Its tawny fur can look orange, its ears are black, and it forages for fruit at dusk.

• Toro Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris

  The Toro Olive Greenbul lives in forest undergrowth and streamside scrub, where it searches for small invertebrates in trees. An adult photographed in Kibale Forest, Uganda, has fine yellow streaks on its belly.

• Damara Woolly Bat Kerivoula argentata

  This small bat has long, dense fur that can help conceal it among leaves or in bird nests. The southern African assessment reports it from riverine forest and other moist habitats, where it eats insects.

• Pacific Wren Troglodytes pacificus

  This tiny brown wren often holds its short tail upright and hops like a mouse over logs and roots while searching for food. It inhabits forests of western North America and takes insects near the ground.

• Belding's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus beldingi

  Belding's ground squirrel is active by day in mountain meadows. It eats grasses and seeds and spends the winter hibernating in burrows.

• Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus

  The Golden Pipit walks through dry grassland looking for insects. Adult males show yellow below and in the wings, while females are mainly brown.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus

  The Chinese goral is a goat-like animal that climbs rocky, steep slopes on broad hooves.

• Grey-collared Oriole Oriolus forsteni

  The Grey-collared Oriole is endemic to Seram in Indonesia’s southern Moluccan Islands. It uses primary forest from lowlands to mountains, foraging from the canopy to the middle storey.

• Ornate Titi Plecturocebus ornatus

  The ornate titi is a small monkey of forests in eastern Colombia. Its reddish-orange chest and belly, white forehead stripe, and bushy tail stand out.

• Cyprus Warbler Curruca melanothorax

  The Cyprus Warbler is endemic to Cyprus. The male has dark plumage and pale facial markings, and part of the population migrates away from the island in autumn.

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus

  The Eastern Horseshoe Bat has a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf and roosts in caves and mines. The museum account notes that northern and southern populations may be different species.