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• Swallow-tailed Cotinga Phibalura flavirostris

  

  This cotinga has a patchy range in eastern South America. Its black head, yellow throat, and long forked tail stand out.

• Red kangaroo Osphranter rufus

  A kangaroo of dry inland grasslands and other habitats in Australia. It hops on powerful hind legs and uses its long tail for balance.

• Five-colored Barbet Capito quinticolor

  The Five-colored Barbet combines a black back with a red head and yellow markings. It feeds mainly on fruit, also taking insects, in forests and at their edges.

• San Quintin Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys gravipes

  The San Quintín kangaroo rat lives on a small coastal plain in Baja California, Mexico. It was rediscovered in 2017, and later surveys confirmed its presence.

• Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis

  This tern has a white body, black cap and black bill with a yellow tip. Birds breeding in Britain and Ireland move to the West African coast for winter.

• Gray Slender Opossum Marmosops (Marmosops) incanus

  Males are larger than females, and coat color varies with age and region. It lives along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil and searches for insects on both the ground and in trees.

• Black-browed Triller Lalage atrovirens

  The Black-browed Triller occurs in northern New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are boldly black and white; females are duller, and the species uses forest edges and middle to upper canopy.

• Hastings River Pseudomys Pseudomys oralis

  This mouse lives in forests of eastern Australia. Its rounded nose and dark eye rings are distinctive, and it feeds at night on vegetation, seeds, and invertebrates.

• Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis

  A pitta with blue plumage and a black bill. It breeds in southern China and Southeast Asia and appears in Singapore during migration and winter.

• 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.

• Grey-bellied Tesia Tesia cyaniventer

  This very small bird lives near the ground in grasses and shrubs of damp subtropical mountains. Its short tail and long legs are noticeable.

• Long-tailed weasel Neogale frenata

  A long-bodied weasel found in forests, fields, and other habitats in North Carolina.

• Taiwan Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus musicus

  The Taiwan Scimitar Babbler is endemic to Taiwan. It has a pale face marked with dark head stripes and uses its long, downcurved bill to search low vegetation and forest edges.

• Honduran Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) inopinatus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs around Honduras. Honduran records include captures in several forest and waterside habitats, and Cecropia seeds have also been documented.

• Livingstone's Turaco Tauraco livingstonii

  Livingstone's Turaco is green, with a white-tipped crest and red on the inner wings. It eats fruit and berries.

• Northern pygmy marmoset Cebuella pygmaea

  A very small tree-climbing monkey of the upper Amazon basin.

• Klaas's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx klaas

  Klaas's Cuckoo lives in forests and woodlands of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It searches among leaves for caterpillars and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Cuvier's gazelle Gazella cuvieri

  Cuvier's gazelle is a North African gazelle found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

• Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni

  A gray kestrel with a pale head, rump, and underwing that stand out in flight. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Perote Deermouse Peromyscus bullatus

  The Perote deermouse has tawny upperparts, a pale underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is recorded in a highland basin of central Mexico.

• Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii

  The Square-tailed Drongo is a black bird of forests and thickets in eastern and southern Africa. It catches insects by flying out from a perch.

• Durango Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) durangae

  A chipmunk of the Sierra Madre Occidental in western Mexico. It inhabits mountain forests containing pine, oak, and juniper.

• Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus

  It is a green woodpecker with a streaked breast, found in moist lowland forests and mangroves.

• Amami Rabbit Pentalagus furnessi

  The Amami rabbit is a short-eared, short-legged rabbit found in the forests of Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima. It eats grasses, young shoots and fruit, and usually lives alone.