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• Two-banded Puffbird Hypnelus bicinctus

  

  This large-headed puffbird occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. A white eye mask extends onto the neck, and two dark bands cross the chest.

• Common duiker Sylvicapra grimmia

  

  A small antelope that lives in grassland and woodland cover.

• Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua

  

  The Namaqua Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry southwestern Africa. It eats seeds, and males carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Wilkins's Rock Wallaby Petrogale wilkinsi

  

  This wallaby lives among rocky areas of northern Australia. Its coat is dark gray-brown, with distinct stripes on the head and sides and paler limbs. The IUCN assessment lists savanna, rocky areas, and caves among its habitats.

• Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala

  

  The Arabian Partridge is native to the Arabian Peninsula and has been reported around Abha and Tanomah in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Caucasian squirrel Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus

  

  A tree squirrel of southwestern Asia, it lives in forests and orchards. Tree seeds are its main food, with oak seeds important across much of its range.

• Biak Hooded Pitta Pitta rosenbergii

  The Biak Hooded Pitta occurs on Biak Island. A local field guide notes the rosenbergii form’s deep blue flanks and lack of a glossy throat band. A record also documents it in secondary forest on Biak.

• Cauca Climbing Mouse Rhipidomys caucensis

  The Cauca climbing mouse is a small rodent known from the Andes of western Colombia. It has been collected in high-elevation cloud forest.

• Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus hellmayri

  Dark streaks on its ochre back mark this pipit. It uses grassy places near water and Patagonian grassland, moving close to the ground.

• Yellow-necked Field Mouse Apodemus flavicollis

  Apodemus flavicollis is described in a British mammal atlas as mainly a woodland mouse. The yellowish band below its neck joins the brown upper fur, and many British records are near ancient woodland.

• Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.

• Dun Tube-nosed Bat Murina recondita

  A small tube-nosed bat collected in Taiwan. Its original description reports forest-associated records, mostly below 1,400 m elevation.

• Palawan Frogmouth Batrachostomus chaseni

  This frogmouth inhabits lowland forest on Palawan. Males are gray-brown and finely speckled; females are more rufous and less patterned.

• Great Flying Fox Pteropus neohibernicus

  The great flying fox is a large fruit bat found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is nocturnal and roosts in large groups high in trees.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.

• Collared Mangabey Cercocebus torquatus

  The collared mangabey has reddish hair on its crown and striking white eyelids against a dark face. It is active by day and spends much of its time on the ground, though it also climbs through trees.

• Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in northwestern South America, including Peru. A nest was studied in Peruvian floodplain forest.

• Cuban Fig-eating Bat Phyllops falcatus

  The Cuban fig-eating bat is a medium-sized bat recorded in Cuba and on Hispaniola. It has white shoulder patches, while information about its food comes from only a few observations of fruit and seeds.

• Clay-colored Robin Turdus grayi

  The Clay-colored Robin is a thrush widespread in Central America. It visits forest edges, plantations, and gardens, where it eats fruit and small animals.

• Bontebok Damaliscus pygargus

  An antelope of coastal plains in southwestern South Africa. This entry describes the bontebok subspecies, Damaliscus pygargus pygargus.

• White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus

  This shrike-babbler ranges from the eastern Himalayas across Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Male wing-panel colors vary by region.

• Borneo Black-banded Squirrel Callosciurus orestes

  The Borneo black-banded squirrel has a contrasting side stripe and a ringed tail. It occurs in Borneo's forests, and stomach contents have included fruits and ants.

• Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo

  A long-winged falcon that flies swiftly to catch small birds and dragonflies in the air.

• California Vole Microtus californicus

  The California vole occurs along the Pacific Coast and uses grassy runways and underground burrows. It eats grasses and roots, and its coat varies across its range.