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• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Allied Rock Wallaby Petrogale assimilis

  

  The allied rock-wallaby lives on rocky terrain in northern Queensland, Australia. It forages at night and shelters under rocks during the day.

• Summer Tanager Piranga rubra

  

  The Summer Tanager is a stout bird that searches for insects high in the forest canopy. Adult males are red, while females and young males are yellow to yellow-green.

• Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista elegans

  

  The spotted giant flying squirrel glides from tree to tree by spreading a membrane between its limbs. Coat color and spotting vary by region.

• Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae

  

  This minivet ranges from Japan's Ryukyu Islands through Kyushu to western Honshu. Males have a narrow white forehead band that is nearly absent in females.

• Plains Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavescens

  

  The plains pocket mouse is a small rodent of the North American Great Plains. It carries seeds in fur-lined cheek pouches and stores food in its burrow.

• Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup

  This glossy black starling has pale wing patches and orange eyes. It lives among dry rocky hills in southern Africa.

• Achallo Chinchillula sahamae

  Chinchillula sahamae is a medium-sized rodent of the high Andes. It is known for its black, white, and brown pattern and for a report of nesting with its own hair among rocks.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Cape Spiny Mouse Acomys (Subacomys) subspinosus

  The Cape spiny mouse is a small spiny mouse of rocky areas and fynbos in southwestern South Africa. Seeds make up most of its recorded diet.

• Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei

  This slender thrasher lives in dry areas of the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has sandy-brown plumage and a relatively short, curved bill, and searches for prey on the ground.

• Indian Pygmy Bat Pipistrellus tenuis

  Pipistrellus tenuis occurs in South and Southeast Asia. It is recorded in forests, rural areas, and towns, and uses leafy tree cover and buildings as roosts.

• Botha's Lark Spizocorys fringillaris

  This stocky lark inhabits highland grasslands in South Africa. It favors flat or gently sloping ground with short, dense grass, and the sexes look similar.

• Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata

  The Smooth-coated Otter ranges across South and Southeast Asia. It has short, smooth brown fur and uses waterside habitats such as rivers, wetlands, and mangroves.

• White-breasted Whistler Pachycephala lanioides

  The male has a black head and breast band, a rufous nape and white underparts. The female is grey-brown, with dark streaks below. The species occurs along northern Australia's coast and feeds in mangroves and nearby rainforest.

• Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus

  The island flying fox is a flying fox occurring on islands from South Asia to the southwest Pacific.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• White-bellied Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) noctivagus

  The white-bellied slender opossum has dull reddish-brown dorsal fur. In a lowland Peruvian rainforest study, it was recorded in both terrestrial and lower arboreal small-mammal communities.

• Bolivian Tapaculo Scytalopus bolivianus

  A small, secretive bird of humid mountain forests from southeastern Peru into Bolivia. It forages on or close to the ground and uses forest understory and edges.

• Mona Monkey Cercopithecus mona

  The mona monkey is an arboreal monkey of West and Central African forests. It searches for food in the middle and upper parts of trees.

• Dusky Purpletuft Iodopleura fusca

  This cotinga is recorded in forest canopies from the Guiana Shield to northern Brazil. In field observations, males had purple upper-flank tufts and birds caught flying insects from the canopy.

• Dwarf Little Fruit Bat Rhinophylla pumilio

  A small fruit-eating bat widespread in northern South America. It lacks a tail and uses folded leaves as daytime roost tents.

• Beautiful Jay Cyanolyca pulchra

  The Beautiful Jay lives in wet montane forest from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. Its crown, back, wings, and tail are blue, set off by a black face.

• Horsfield's Shrew Crocidura horsfieldii

  This shrew occurs in India and Sri Lanka, where it is recorded in moist forests and grasslands. It is terrestrial and feeds on insects.