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- White-browed Tit-warbler Leptopoecile sophiae
Photo: Alastair Rae · CC BY-SA 2.0 This tiny bird is about 8–10 cm long and lives in high-mountain scrub. It eats insects and other invertebrates and may move between elevations.
- Golden-mantled Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus tripartitus
This small primate occurs in the western Amazon of Peru and Ecuador. It has golden-orange shoulders and back, a black head and a white face. It lives in lowland evergreen forest and eats fruit and insects.
- Dusky-headed Brush Finch Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus
It lives on the eastern side of the Colombian Andes, moving in small groups through dense vegetation at forest edges and in second growth. The cited source does not report its diet.
- Greater Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus sobrinus
The greater long-nosed fruit bat has a slender snout and feeds on nectar. By visiting flowers, it also helps pollinate wild bananas.
- Green-rumped Parrotlet Forpus passerinus
This small parrot occurs widely across northern South America. Wing colors differ by sex and subspecies, and birds feed in flocks outside the breeding season.
- Rufous Hare Wallaby Lagorchestes hirsutus
This small wallaby has soft, long fur with a reddish tinge. Its natural wild populations remain in dry scrub on islands off Western Australia.
- Trinidad Motmot Momotus bahamensis
This bird lives in Trinidad and Tobago. The regional guide records it in Trinidad's lowland evergreen forest and in Tobago's pastures and farms where trees remain.
- Atlantic Forest Red Brocket Mazama bororo
This deer lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Work around Intervales in São Paulo recorded activity from dusk into the night; two tracked females used well-preserved native vegetation.
- Spotted Scrubwren Sericornis maculatus
The Spotted Scrubwren lives in south-western Australian forest and searches leaf litter for insects and seeds. The appearance and life details below are limited to the subspecies described in that region.
- Deppe’s squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) deppei
Deppe’s squirrel is a forest squirrel with a brown back, pale underside, and relatively short, narrow tail.
- Golden-collared Manakin Manacus vitellinus
This manakin ranges from western Panama to western Colombia. At a Panamanian breeding site, males prepare small courts on the forest floor and court with wing snaps.
- Andean White-eared Opossum Didelphis pernigra
The Andean white-eared opossum is a marsupial with white ears and distinctive facial markings. It is associated mainly with mountain forests, but records also include riparian and human-modified habitats in parts of its range.
- Samoan Triller Lalage sharpei
This small bird occurs in the highlands of Upolu and Savai'i in Samoa. The sexes are similar and it feeds on fruit and invertebrates. The Savai'i form, tenebrosa, is darker.
- Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam
The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.
- Andaman Flowerpecker Dicaeum virescens
This small bird is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It has olive-green upperparts, pale underparts, and a yellow vent, and moves quickly around fruiting trees high in the canopy.
- African Striped Weasel Poecilogale albinucha
The African striped weasel has a long, slim body marked with black and white stripes. It is active around burrows at night and mainly eats small mammals.
- Madagascar Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus newtoni
The Madagascar Swamp Warbler feeds on insects while moving among wetland plants. It is widespread on Madagascar, absent from the far north, and less common in the dry south.
- Northern Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) talpinus
The northern mole vole is a burrowing rodent whose coat color varies among populations studied in different regions.
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
A large seabird that glides over the sea and catches fish.
- Isabelle's Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) isabellinus
Eptesicus isabellinus is recorded from southern Iberia into northwestern Africa. Its account lists environments from Mediterranean woodland to semidesert.
- Greater Lophorina Lophorina latipennis
It lives in montane forest on New Guinea, and the sexes look very different. The male has a black body with metallic green-blue ornaments; the female is brown and patterned.
- Agile Antechinus Antechinus agilis
The agile antechinus is a small marsupial of southeastern mainland Australia. It forages around leaf litter and fallen logs, eating insects and small vertebrates.
- Cuban Martin Progne cryptoleuca
The Cuban Martin catches insects while flying. It uses dry lowland scrub, pasture, farmland, and second-growth woodland, and it also occurs in pine forest.
- Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi
Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.