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• Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo Chalcites ruficollis

  

  The Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo is a small cuckoo of New Guinea's humid mountain forests. Its throat and underparts are rufous, crossed by broad dark bars.

• Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

  

  This cottontail has a grey-brown back, white underside, and black-tipped ears. It hides in brush on western North American mountainsides and riverbanks.

• Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri

  

  The Black-billed Gull is a slender gull found only in New Zealand. It breeds on gravelly riverbeds and uses rivers or coasts at different times of year.

• Horsfield's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros larvatus

  

  Horsfield's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-sized bat with relatively large ears and a complex noseleaf. It flies through forest understory and roosts in caves and buildings.

• Pale-headed Munia Lonchura pallida

  

  The Pale-headed Munia has a pale head that contrasts with its darker body. It occurs in the lowlands of eastern Indonesia, including dry scrub, grassland, marshes, and farmland.

• Spectral Bat Vampyrum spectrum

  

  A large carnivorous bat of tropical forests in Central America and northern South America.

• Inaccessible Island Rail Laterallus rogersi

  The Inaccessible Island Rail is a tiny flightless rail found only on Inaccessible Island. It hides in dense vegetation, and its calls help researchers locate it.

• Wapiti Cervus canadensis

  The wapiti is a large deer found in herds in North America’s Yellowstone region.

• Collared Trogon Trogon collaris

  The Collared Trogon lives in humid forests of Central and South America and eats insects and fruit. It may excavate a nest cavity in decayed wood.

• Taiwanese Mole Shrew Anourosorex yamashinai

  The Taiwanese mole shrew has dark, short fur and a very short tail. It uses forest floors and natural cavities underground in middle- and high-elevation forests of Taiwan.

• Tooth-billed Bowerbird Scenopoeetes dentirostris

  This bird lives in upland rainforest in northeastern Queensland. During the breeding season, the male courts on a display court arranged with leaves.

• Mauritian Tomb Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) mauritianus

  Its underside is white and its back is mixed gray. It occurs in central and southern Africa and nearby islands, and flies out after dark.

• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Gulf Coast Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys compactus

  The Gulf Coast kangaroo rat lives in sandy areas from southern Texas, United States, to northeastern Mexico. It carries seeds in cheek pouches and is active at night.

• Buff-barred Warbler Phylloscopus pulcher

  This small leaf warbler lives in hill and mountain forests around the Himalayas. Its breeding range extends through the southern Tibetan and southwestern Chinese region.

• Anderson's Four-eyed Opossum Philander andersoni

  This opossum occurs in northwestern South America. It uses lowland primary and secondary forests and riparian forest, and is mostly terrestrial.

• Ivory-backed Woodswallow Artamus monachus

  Its white back and body contrast with a brown-grey head and dark wings. It catches flying insects over forest edges and openings.

• Germain's Langur Trachypithecus germaini

  This langur has a silvery gray coat, a black face, and a crown-like crest. A study in Vietnam's karst region found that leaves were its main food.

• Bearded Barbet Lybius dubius

  This stocky bird with a large bill lives in tropical West Africa. It has black upperparts, a red throat and belly and a yellow eye patch. Figs are a favoured food, and several birds may roost together.

• Black Wallaroo Osphranter bernardus

  The black wallaroo is a kangaroo relative of Kakadu’s rocky Stone Country.

• King penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus

  A large penguin recognized by vivid orange patches on the sides of its head.

• Red-bellied Marsupial Shrew Phascolosorex doriae

  This marsupial occurs in western New Guinea. It has a dark line along the middle of its back and reddish fur on the underside.

• Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides

  The AOS classification treats the Blue-black Grosbeak as Cyanoloxia cyanoides. A report from northwestern Peru documents the subspecies C. c. cyanoides in scrub that differs from its usual humid-forest setting.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.