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• Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla

  

  The Greater Short-toed Lark is a small lark of open, dry country. A breeding study in central Italy recorded nesting, groups of fledglings, and family groups before migration.

• Cinereus Shrew Sorex cinereus

  The cinereus shrew is widespread in northern North America and is often found in moist places such as forests and river or lake edges. It is active at night and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Rusty-breasted Nunlet Nonnula rubecula

  A small bird of the western Amazon. Its brown body has rusty markings on the throat and breast and a white eye-ring.

• Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis

  This short-tailed wallaby is marked by reddish fur on its neck and shoulders. It spends the day in forest and emerges near dusk to feed on plants.

• Brown-throated Sunbird Anthreptes malacensis

  The Brown-throated Sunbird lives in Southeast Asian forests and mangroves, as well as parks. Males have green heads and yellow bellies, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• California Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys californicus

  The California kangaroo rat has large hind feet for hopping and a long tail. It is active mainly at night and eats seeds and fruit.

• Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis

  The Yellow Rail is a small rail that hides among wetland grasses. It probes the ground and vegetation for small animals and seeds; males give faint clicking calls on spring nights.

• Rondon's Marmoset Mico rondoni

  Rondon’s marmoset occurs only in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. It eats fruits and insects in forest and also uses plant exudates as food.

• Tahiti Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata

  This seabird has a dark upper surface and a white belly. Outside the breeding season it spends time at sea, feeding on squid and other prey near the surface. Breeding areas differ between subspecies.

• Broom Hare Lepus castroviejoi

  This hare lives in the Cantabrian Mountains. Its back is yellow-brown and its underside is white; it rests in scrub by day and feeds mainly on grass at night.

• Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel Hydrobates tethys

  The Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel has separate breeding populations in the Galápagos and off South America. It lives at sea, and the populations differ in some features.

• Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel Dremomys rufigenis

  The Asian red-cheeked squirrel ranges from southern China across parts of northern South and Southeast Asia. It forages both on the ground and in trees.

• Exclamatory Paradise Whydah Vidua interjecta

  This brood-parasitic whydah ranges from Upper and Lower Guinea through northeastern Zaire, now northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Payne (1991) links its distribution with the Red-winged Pytilia (Pytilia phoenicoptera) and reports song phrases by a captive male that matched the host’s songs and calls.

• Macedonian Mouse Mus (Mus) macedonicus

  This small mouse resembles the house mouse but is mainly associated with natural grasslands and scrub. Identification from appearance alone can be difficult in some areas; chromosome and genetic evidence may be used to distinguish related mice.

• Akepa Loxops coccineus

  A small Hawaiian honeycreeper, it uses its crossed bill to find insects and spiders in ʻōhiʻa buds and is now believed to remain only on Hawaiʻi Island.

• Pygmy Round-eared Bat Lophostoma brasiliense

  This small bat has rounded ears and a short tail enclosed by the flight membrane. It is active after dusk, feeds on insects, and has been reported roosting in arboreal termite nests.

• Painted Buttonquail Turnix varius

  Females are larger and more colorful than males. In forest and woodland, birds scratch the leaf litter in a spinning motion to find seeds, insects, fruit, and leaves.

• Peter's Climbing Rat Tylomys nudicaudus

  Peter's Climbing Rat is a large rodent with a long, naked tail and reddish-brown back. It is active at night and around dawn in forests.

• New Guinea Thornbill Acanthiza murina

  This small bird is about 10 cm long and weighs around 8 g. It lives in New Guinea moss forest in mountains above 2,150 m and searches for small invertebrates in trees.

• Japanese marten Martes melampus

  A mustelid of Japanese forests and other habitats, with yellowish-brown to dark-brown fur and a white to cream throat patch.

• White-eared Jacamar Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis

  A white patch behind the ear and a rufous breast stand out. It perches in riverside woodland and darts out to catch flying insects.

• Kultarr Antechinomys laniger

  The kultarr is a nocturnal marsupial of Australia's arid and semi-arid regions. It bounds on long hind feet and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• Black Bustard Afrotis afra

  The Black Bustard is a small bustard of southwestern South Africa that uses low shrubland.

• Damara Dik-dik Madoqua damarensis

  Madoqua damarensis ranges from northern and northwestern Namibia into southwestern Angola. In the northern Namibian population recorded under the former name M. kirkii damarensis, males had forehead crests reaching between the horns and browsed leaves and twigs in dense shrub thicket.