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• Golden-tailed Parrotlet Touit surdus

  

  This small parrot lives in lowland and secondary forests of eastern Brazil. It searches for fruit in the canopy and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• 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.

• Long-tailed Tapaculo Scytalopus micropterus

  The Long-tailed Tapaculo is a small ground-dwelling bird recorded on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It lives in bamboo understory.

• Large Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus

  A large fruit-eating bat of Southeast Asia. A tracking study in Malaysia recorded movements across national borders.

• Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

  The Eastern Towhee is a sparrow-sized bird of woodland undergrowth and thickets. Males are black and reddish-brown; females replace the black with brown, and their leaf-litter scratching is often heard.

• Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula

  The Greater White-toothed Shrew occurs throughout mainland Portugal. Its back changes from gray in winter to reddish brown in summer. It uses open places, shrub-rich woodland edges, gardens and farmland, and is mostly nocturnal but also active by day.

• Tibetan Sand Plover Charadrius atrifrons

  This plover breeds in Asian mountains and plateaus and winters along the coasts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In breeding plumage it has an orange breast and clean white flanks.

• Black Wallaroo Osphranter bernardus

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

• Orange Chat Epthianura aurifrons

  This chat lives in dry Australian shrubland and other open, stony places. Males show orange and black facial markings; females are paler.

• Painted Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys pictus

  The painted spiny pocket mouse ranges from Mexico to northwestern Guatemala. It has a reddish-brown back, white underside, and spiny coat, and stores seeds in caches.

• Moustached Antwren Myrmotherula ignota

  This roughly 8 cm bird lives in northern Amazonia. Males have black-and-white streaking and yellow underparts, while females are buff and black; both search along tree sides.

• Buffy-tufted Marmoset Callithrix aurita

  It has a black body, short tufts extending from the ears, and a white to light tan face. It occurs in montane rain forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus

  The Green-throated Carib is a Caribbean hummingbird with an iridescent green throat and chest, a blue band beneath them, and black underparts. It uses flower nectar.

• Gray-tailed Hare Lepus oiostolus

  This hare lives in highlands such as the Tibetan Plateau, using grassland and scrub and feeding on grasses and leaves. Its coat varies with age and place.

• D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii

  D'Arnaud's Barbet lives in open woodland and savanna in East Africa. Its orange head spots and black, yellow, and orange pattern stand out.

• Least Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) minimus

  This small chipmunk lives in North America. It has a striped face, an orangish-brown back, and a grayish-white underside. It often uses forest edges and openings.

• Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus

  In breeding plumage it has a rusty-red neck and yellow-orange tufts behind the eyes; in winter it becomes gray and white.

• Australian Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus

  The Australian swamp rat lives in wet grasslands in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It makes runways through vegetation and eats grasses and sedges.

• Mindanao Blue Fantail Rhipidura superciliaris

  This blue fantail lives in lowland forest on Basilan and Mindanao. It has a blue head and long tail and feeds mostly on insects.

• Pacific Tent-making Bat Uroderma convexum

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico through Panama to western South America. It has white facial stripes and a white line down the middle of its back. In Panama, it was recorded using tent-like roosts made from modified American oil-palm leaves.

• Rufous Motmot Baryphthengus martii

  The Rufous Motmot is a forest bird with a rufous head and chest and a blue-green belly. The shape of its tail tip differs between subspecies.

• Bonaerense Pericote Phyllotis bonariensis

  The Bonaerense Pericote is a rodent reported as restricted to the Sierra de la Ventana in Argentina. The account notes rocky habitat but provides no published behavior or diet data.

• Papyrus Gonolek Laniarius mufumbiri

  This bush-shrike lives in East African papyrus wetlands. Adults have black upperparts, a yellow crown, a white wing bar, and orange-red underparts.

• European Mink Mustela lutreola

  This slender mustelid lives near water and is marked by brown fur and white areas on both lips.