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• Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus

  

  The Brown Babbler's pale lores and chin stand out against its brown plumage. It searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates in scrub and acacia thickets.

• Olive-backed Pocket Mouse Perognathus fasciatus

  

  This small pocket mouse carries seeds in cheek pouches. It comes above ground at night and spends the day in a soil burrow.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus cornutus

  

  The subspecies recorded around Yasaka Dam roosts in mountain caves and catches flying insects at night near the river.

• Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler Cettia major

  

  The Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler is marked by its rufous crown. It breeds in mountain scrub, then moves downslope after breeding.

• Campbell's hamster Phodopus campbelli

  

  A small hamster with a narrow dark stripe down its back that lives in dry steppes and deserts.

• Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator

  The Greater Honeyguide is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It can lead people, honey badgers, or baboons to a hive, then eat wax and larvae after the hive is opened.

• Dalton's Praomys Praomys daltoni

  A medium-sized mouse described as having a pure-white belly. A survey in western Guinea recorded it in gallery forest and cultivated areas at a small number of sites.

• Red-winged Fairywren Malurus elegans

  A fairywren of southwestern Australia that lives in small groups in scrub and mainly eats insects.

• Japanese pipistrelle Pipistrellus abramus

  A small bat that roosts in buildings and flies over familiar places after sunset.

• 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.

• European badger Meles meles

  A badger with a sturdy body and conspicuous black-and-white facial markings.

• Philippine Cockatoo Cacatua haematuropygia

  The Philippine cockatoo is a white parrot found only in the Philippines. Orange-red feathers beneath the tail, with pale yellow and pink on the cheeks and underwings, help identify it.

• Leschenault's Rousette Rousettus leschenaultii

  Rousettus leschenaultii is a fruit-eating flying fox ranging across South and Southeast Asia. Its dorsal fur is fulvous brown and the underside grey to brown-grey; it roosts by day in caves and some buildings.

• White-tailed Nuthatch Sitta himalayensis

  It has blue-grey upperparts, a short tail, and orange-tinged underparts. The white on the tail can be difficult to see.

• Brown-eared Woolly Opossum Caluromys lanatus

  The brown-eared woolly opossum is an arboreal marsupial with a dense coat and a long, grasping tail. It lives in South American forests.

• Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

  The Taiga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher marked by a blackish tail and white undertail-coverts. It migrates from breeding areas in northeast Asia to wintering areas farther south.

• Oustalet's Red Colobus Piliocolobus oustaleti

  Its coat color varies by region, with the back and limbs darker than the underside. Groups in Ngotto Forest in the Central African Republic have also been observed feeding on aquatic plants.

• Philippine Pied Fantail Rhipidura nigritorquis

  This fantail is endemic to the Philippines. It searches for insects in lowland woodland, coastal vegetation, and green spaces in towns.

• Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis

  A deer recorded in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

• White-winged Tanager Piranga leucoptera

  Males are red with a black face and wings marked by two white bars. Females are yellow-green and forage in trees, in pairs or mixed-species flocks.

• Common Sword-nosed Bat Lonchorhina aurita

  The common sword-nosed bat ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into South America. It is found mainly in forests and eats insects.

• White-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina ostenta

  It lives in forests of the Western Visayas in the Philippines and forms small groups in the canopy or at forest edges. A large white wing patch is its field mark.

• Laxmann's shrew Sorex caecutiens

  Laxmann's shrew (Sorex caecutiens) occurs from Europe to East Asia.