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• Striped Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus nymphaea

  

  This bat is recorded mainly from Colombia’s Pacific region. Its dorsal stripe may be faint, while four white facial lines and yellow ear margins are conspicuous.

• Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Trogon is a forest bird marked by the male's dark head and chest, the female's gray head, and the yellow belly shared by both sexes.

• Altai Mountain Weasel Mustela altaica

  The Altai mountain weasel lives in Asian mountain regions. Its coat changes with the seasons, with different back colors in winter and summer.

• Kolombangara Monarch Symposiachrus browni

  A forest monarch found in the New Georgia group of the Solomon Islands. Adults are black and white, but the extent of white varies among island subspecies.

• Tana River Red Colobus Piliocolobus rufomitratus

  The Tana River red colobus lives in riverine forest along the lower Tana River in eastern Kenya. It feeds in the morning and late afternoon and spends much of the day resting.

• Brooks's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus subviridis

  This small leaf warbler breeds from eastern Afghanistan through northern Pakistan to northwestern India, then winters in Pakistan and north-central India.

• Dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas

  A gazelle of deserts and dry grassland that feeds on a variety of plants.

• Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

  A bunting that stays on farmland in Britain year-round; males have a bright yellow head.

• Hershkovitz's Marmoset Mico intermedius

  Hershkovitz's marmoset is a small monkey from the Brazilian Amazon.

• Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis

  A gray bird with a black cap and rusty feathers beneath the tail. It lives in dense thickets and weaves other birds' sounds into long songs.

• Black rat Rattus rattus

  An agile climbing rat that uses trees and high parts of buildings.

• Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler Cettia major

  The Chestnut-crowned Bush Warbler is marked by its rufous crown. It breeds in mountain scrub, then moves downslope after breeding.

• Mexican Giant Shrew Megasorex gigas

  The Mexican giant shrew is known only from Mexico. A small number of collection records place it along damp streams and in forests with fallen logs and rocks.

• Javan Coucal Centropus nigrorufus

  This large coucal is recorded in Java's lowlands, where it uses mangroves and nearby wetlands.

• Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

  The brown dorcopsis is a wallaby of New Guinea forests. A field study in West Papua also recorded its use of riverbank grassland.

• Southern Black Tit Melaniparus niger

  The Southern Black Tit lives in dry open woodland and scrub in southern Africa. It searches among branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Fijian Long-tailed Fruit Bat Notopteris macdonaldii

  A Pacific fruit bat with a long tail. A Fiji survey found nursing colonies in caves on Viti Levu.

• Milky Stork Mycteria cinerea

  A stork with a white body, long legs and a long bill. It breeds in parts of Southeast Asia and forages in groups in wetlands such as mangroves and tidal flats.

• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• Tablas Drongo Dicrurus menagei

  This drongo is treated as endemic to Tablas Island in the Philippines. Its outer tail feathers are very long and curve outward at the tips; most field observations were in mature, closed-canopy forest.

• Burmese Hare Lepus peguensis

  This hare uses open woodland and grassy scrub, feeding on the ground from dusk into the night.

• Red-and-yellow Barbet Trachyphonus erythrocephalus

  This barbet lives in open woodland, wooded grassland, and scrub in East Africa. It has a sturdy body, large head, and strong bill.

• Indian Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) palmarum

  A small squirrel with three white stripes along its back.

• Sulawesi Nightjar Caprimulgus celebensis

  The Sulawesi Nightjar has fine grey-brown, dark brown and buff markings. It lives in lowland forests and mangroves around Sulawesi, Indonesia, and is thought to catch flying insects.