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• Elegant Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys elegans

  

  Its tail stores fat and changes in thickness by season with food availability. The coat is tricolored: darker on the back, paler on the sides, and cream-colored underneath.

• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

  

  A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.

• Damara Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) princeps

  

  Geosciurus princeps is a ground squirrel recorded in western Namibia and southern Angola. It has a pale cinnamon back, a white underside and legs, and a white stripe along each side.

• Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus

  

  This large hummingbird shows purple and green plumage. Males and females differ below, and it feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Mt. Claro Rock-wallaby Petrogale sharmani

  

  Sharman’s Rock-wallaby is a medium-sized wallaby from a restricted area of northern Queensland. It shelters among rocks and emerges around dusk to feed.

• Dusky Indigobird Vidua funerea

  

  This brood-parasitic finch occurs in southeastern Africa. Males are known to mimic the song of their host, the African Firefinch.

• Montane Vole Microtus (Mynomes) montanus

  This vole lives in grasslands and alpine meadows of western North America and remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla

  A widespread Australian cockatoo, with a pink face and breast contrasting with grey wings and back.

• Leon Paniagua’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae

  This big-eared bat lives in northeastern Mexico. Its description reports the dorsal fur colors and a group of pregnant females found in a cave.

• Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Platysteira blissetti

  This wattle-eye inhabits humid lowland forest in West Africa. Males have glossy black upperparts and females dark grey upperparts; both have blue eye wattles and chestnut cheek patches.

• Aders' Duiker Cephalophus adersi

  This forest antelope has a reddish-brown body, gray nape and a white band from rump to hind legs. Records are from East African coastal forest and scrub, with activity mainly by day.

• Sarus Crane Antigone antigone

  Adults are large cranes with grey bodies and wings and red heads and necks. They are usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Alaska Hare Lepus othus

  This hare lives in western Alaska's tundra and changes coat color with the seasons.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Kosrae Flying Fox Pteropus ualanus

  The Kosrae flying fox occurs on Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia. The 2020 IUCN assessment reports records from coastal areas to the island’s peaks.

• Ethiopian Bee-eater Merops lafresnayii

  Its back is green and its underparts are pale cinnamon, with a yellow throat bordered behind by blackish blue. A 2015 field report lists at least five birds of the lafresnayii form at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

• Siberian Weasel Mustela sibirica

  The Siberian weasel ranges across northern and eastern Eurasia and parts of South Asia. Its coat changes with the seasons, and it is most active at night or twilight.

• Scarlet-crowned Barbet Capito aurovirens

  This barbet is about 18.5 cm long. Males have a red crown and females a pale one; both have an olive body with an orange throat and breast.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

  The Little Chinese Jird lives in deserts and grasslands, and the color of its back varies.

• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

  A sandpiper that migrates from northern breeding grounds to Australia. In its Australian non-breeding range it forages in coastal and inland wetlands.

• Moor Macaque Macaca maura

  The Moor macaque occurs in southwestern Sulawesi. It is mainly fruit-eating and also eats leaves and arthropods.

• Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius

  The Australian Ringneck occurs in Australia. Its plumage varies by region, but much of the body is green with a yellow band on the hind-neck.

• Southern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia maresi

  Tonatia maresi is a bat distributed in South America. The adult female used as the holotype reference in the paper had dark gray-brown fur above and a grayer, paler underside. The species roosts in hollow trees.

• Black-throated Accentor Prunella atrogularis

  The Black-throated Accentor breeds in mountain regions of Central Asia and around the Urals. The nominate form and subspecies huttoni differ in throat markings and winter movements.