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• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel Hydrobates furcatus

  

  The Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel is a North Pacific seabird. Its bluish-grey body and forked tail are distinctive, and it feeds close to the sea surface.

• Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat Otomops wroughtoni

  Wroughton’s free-tailed bat is poorly recorded in South and Southeast Asia. It is considered an open-space, high-flying forager, and a 2025 study recorded its calls in western India.

• Pycroft's Petrel Pterodroma pycrofti

  Pycroft's Petrel breeds on islands off the northeastern North Island of New Zealand. It is active at night around colonies and feeds on small crustaceans and squid near the sea surface during long flights.

• Suni Neotragus moschatus

  This small antelope has a speckled gray-to-chestnut back and a whitish underside. Only males have horns; it occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Grey-headed Albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma

  The Grey-headed Albatross has a bluish-gray head and neck and a white body. It breeds on subantarctic islands and forages in surrounding waters.

• Elegant Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) elegans

  This small bat has an orange to reddish-brown back and a pale orange belly. It ranges from Mexico to Costa Rica in lowlands, and its echolocation calls are recorded as short inverted-J shapes.

• South Georgia Shag Leucocarbo georgianus

  This seabird breeds around South Georgia. During a chick-rearing study on Bird Island, feeding trips involved diving, and males and females differed in the timing of their trips.

• Desmarest's Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys desmarestianus

  Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse has fur-lined pouches beside its mouth. In Costa Rica's wet forests it forages on the ground at night; the Costa Rican diet records focus on palm nuts and other seeds.

• Yucatan Nightjar Antrostomus badius

  The Yucatan Nightjar lives in forests and at forest edges on the Yucatán Peninsula. Its camouflaged plumage helps it remain difficult to see as it hunts from perches.

• Bale Monkey Chlorocebus djamdjamensis

  The Bale monkey lives in forests of the Ethiopian highlands. Bamboo makes up an important part of its diet, and it has distinctive facial and hand-and-foot coloring.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius

  A woodpecker that drills rows of shallow holes in bark to lick sap. It breeds in eastern North American forests and migrates south for winter.

• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys elegans

  Its tail stores fat and changes in thickness by season with food availability. The coat is tricolored: darker on the back, paler on the sides, and cream-colored underneath.

• Golden-backed Weaver Ploceus jacksoni

  This weaver occurs in eastern Africa. The breeding male has a black head and throat with a yellow back, and the account records it in dry savanna and around acacia woodland.

• Lodgepole Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) speciosus

  The lodgepole chipmunk inhabits conifer forests in California, including the Sierra Nevada. It is active by day and gathers food on the ground.

• Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus

  This sandgrouse lives in dry grassland and scrub in East Africa. Males have black markings across the face and throat, while females are plainer. It feeds on plant seeds on the ground.

• White-winged Vampire Bat Diaemus youngii

  This bat has records from the southern Amazon region of Brazil. Reports describe tree cavities and caves as roosts, although cave records are relatively uncommon.

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens

  This small bird lives along the Pacific coast of North America. Its rich brown plumage blends with coastal tree bark, and it travels with foraging flocks.

• Assam Rabbit Caprolagus hispidus

  The Assam rabbit is a hare with short, broad ears and a coarse outer coat. It feeds on grass roots and shoots in tall-grass country.

• Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni

  This hummingbird was studied in the south-central Ecuadorian Andes. Males and females differ in throat and belly color, and the birds take arthropods as well as flower nectar.

• Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys bakeri

  Baker's Small-toothed Harvest Mouse was described from the mountains of central Guerrero, Mexico. The original paper records it in pine-oak and cloud forest.

• Blue-capped Manakin Lepidothrix coronata

  The Blue-capped Manakin occurs widely east of the Andes in forest. Males have regional color forms, while females are green.

• Dagger-toothed Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus minimus

  This small bat feeds mainly on flower nectar and pollen, using its long snout to reach flowers. It also carries pollen between flowers.

• Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

  The Winter Wren is a tiny, rounded brown bird that often holds its tail upright. It hops among fallen logs and roots while searching for insects.

• Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby Petrogale sharmani

  Sharman’s Rock-wallaby is a medium-sized wallaby from a restricted area of northern Queensland. It shelters among rocks and emerges around dusk to feed.