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• Crested Tit-warbler Leptopoecile elegans

  

  This bird is about 10 cm long. By day in the Himalayas, it searches for small invertebrates among conifers, dwarf juniper scrub, and birches at high elevations.

• Atlantic Titi Callicebus personatus

  This monkey lives in Brazil's Atlantic coastal forests. It has black fur on the forehead and beside the cheeks, while coat patterns vary among subspecies.

• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus

  This forest bird has a grey and green back with vivid orange on the throat and breast.

• Plains Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavescens

  The plains pocket mouse is a small rodent of the North American Great Plains. It carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches and stores food in its burrow.

• Purple Needletail Hirundapus celebensis

  The Purple Needletail is a swift that flies over forests and open country.

• Uinta Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) umbrinus

  This chipmunk occurs in mountains of the western United States. It has long, pointed ears and prefers montane coniferous forest.

• Rufous-vented Tapaculo Scytalopus femoralis

  The Rufous-vented Tapaculo searches the understory of montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes, including bamboo. Similar species can be difficult to separate by sight in dim cover, so the account recommends their calls as a safer clue.

• Golden Mouse Ochrotomys nuttalli

  This small mouse has golden upper fur, a white underside and feet, and a tail it can use while climbing.

• Indian Stone-curlew Burhinus indicus

  The Indian Stone-curlew is a ground-dwelling bird breeding from India into Southeast Asia and is mostly nocturnal.

• Arabian Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura gallarum

  This small bat is recorded from northeastern Africa and southern Arabia. A museum specimen list records seven females from Ain Hamran Cave in Oman.

• Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris

  A large seabird named for the dark line above its eye. It breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands and catches krill and fish near the sea surface.

• Caroline Flying Fox Pteropus molossinus

  This small flying fox lives on islands around Pohnpei. It has been recorded in tropical forest and mangroves and feeds on fruit and flowers.

• Little Pratincole Glareola lactea

  The little pratincole is a small bird that catches insects while flying over water and farmland. It is also recorded along Thai rivers and lakeshores.

• Malay Weasel Mustela nudipes

  The Malay weasel has a pale head and a slender reddish-brown to orange body. It searches for small animals on the ground during the day.

• African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus

  The African Harrier-Hawk is a sub-Saharan raptor that uses unusually flexible legs to reach prey in holes and nests.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• Sikkim Wedge-billed Babbler Stachyris humei

  This babbler occurs in the eastern Himalayas, inhabiting evergreen broadleaf forest and bamboo. It forms small groups in the undergrowth.

• Tufted Deer Elaphodus cephalophus

  Its name comes from the tuft of hair on the forehead, which can hide the small antlers of males. Its upper canine teeth are also long and tusk-like.

• Eungella Honeyeater Bolemoreus hindwoodi

  The Eungella Honeyeater is restricted to a small area of rainforest around the Clarke Range. A five-site study in 2019-2020 recorded it feeding on many kinds of flowers and fruits.

• Large Myotis Myotis (Myotis) chinensis

  Large Myotis is a large mouse-eared bat recorded in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

• Ornate Tinamou Nothoprocta ornata

  The Ornate Tinamou has spots on the head and neck, an unspotted gray breast, and lower-belly plumage that grades from buff to rufous.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Pale-blue Monarch Hypothymis puella

  The Pale-blue Monarch lives in forest on Sulawesi and nearby Indonesian islands. Males are pale blue with darker wings, while females are duller and grey-brown. It eats insects and also uses forest edges and second growth.

• Rusty Antechinus Antechinus adustus

  A marsupial with rusty tones in its dark brown fur, it lives in moist upland forests of northeastern Queensland.