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• North Sumatran Leaf Monkey Presbytis thomasi

  

  This arboreal monkey lives in forests of northern Sumatra. It has a mostly black body, a pale underside and a distinctive white V-shaped pattern around the eyes.

• Blue-winged Parakeet Psittacula columboides

  This parakeet of India's Western Ghats has a long blue tail and red bill. Males have a grey head and black neck stripe, and the birds feed on fruit and seeds.

• Black Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysopygus

  The black lion tamarin is a small monkey of forests in São Paulo state, Brazil. Its mostly black coat has golden fur on the rump and at the base of the tail.

• Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata

  A flocking pigeon of western North American forests. Its pale gray plumage, white neck crescent, and broad pale tail band help identify it.

• Antelope Rabbit Lepus callotis

  This jackrabbit lives in high plateau grasslands of southwestern New Mexico and northern and central Mexico. It mainly eats grasses, and its white flanks are a useful field mark.

• Palawan Frogmouth Batrachostomus chaseni

  This frogmouth inhabits lowland forest on Palawan. Males are gray-brown and finely speckled; females are more rufous and less patterned.

• 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.

• Black-browed Barbet Psilopogon oorti

  The Black-browed Barbet has red, blue, and yellow markings on the head and a black brow-like stripe. It forages in the canopy and mid-level branches, and accounts differ on the details of its diet.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle Spilornis klossi

  The Great Nicobar Serpent Eagle is a small serpent eagle collected on Great Nicobar Island. Adults have a dark crown, grey cheeks, and pale underparts; specimen stomachs contained lizards and small mammals among other prey.

• Black-handed Titi Cheracebus medemi

  The black-handed titi occurs in the Colombian Amazon. Its species account describes dark hands, feet, tail, and underparts, with a white throat.

• Brown-crowned Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus phayrei

  An older bird account describes a form now included in Pomatorhinus phayrei under a historical subspecies name. It records olive-brown upperparts, rufous underparts, and movement beneath dense cover.

• Columbian Ground Squirrel Urocitellus columbianus

  The Columbian ground squirrel lives in groups in western North American grasslands and alpine meadows. It is known for a long hibernation.

• Plain White-eye Zosterops hypolais

  The Plain White-eye is a small bird recorded in forests and open grassy places on Yap. A 1977 field account described dull gray-white plumage with a pale yellow wash below, small flocks, and feeding in both the canopy and short grass.

• Calaby's Pademelon Thylogale calabyi

  Calaby’s Pademelon is a small pademelon recorded in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Yellow-tipped belly fur and a pale hip stripe help identify the individuals described in a field report.

• Blue-throated Motmot Aspatha gularis

  The Blue-throated Motmot has a vivid blue throat and a short tail. It lives in mountain forest from southern Mexico into northern Central America.

• Dulzura Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys simulans

  The Dulzura kangaroo rat ranges from coastal southern California to southern Baja California Sur, Mexico. Reported populations differ in body size across regions and habitats.

• Ludwig's Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris ludovicensis

  This sunbird occurs in the western highlands of Angola. An Angola bird guide describes males with a blue rump and orange-red breast band, while females are duller and grayish.

• Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat Haplonycteris fischeri

  This small, tailless bat has a darker head and cinnamon-brown fur. It lives in Philippine forests and eats fruit, including figs.

• Swamp Boubou Laniarius bicolor

  This bushshrike has a black upper body and white underparts. Pairs live in thickets beside rivers and wetlands and feed mainly on invertebrates.

• Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudis

  An otter of South America and Trinidad, using rivers, lakes and their banks.

• Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis

  Recorded throughout the year in Britain and Ireland. It is most widespread in the north and west and in uplands during breeding, and across much of the area in winter except the highest ground.

• Müller's Three-striped Dasyure Myoictis melas

  Müller's three-striped dasyure is a dasyurid marsupial from New Guinea's forests. Specimens assigned to the species vary in color, from nearly black to reddish brown.

• Moluccan Monarch Symposiachrus bimaculatus

  Symposiachrus bimaculatus is a monarch of the Moluccan Islands. The 2024 Clements treatment separates it from the Australian Spectacled Monarch and recognizes three subspecies. On Obi and Bisa, observations of the diadematus subspecies place it in secondary growth and forest edge, often in mixed-species flocks.