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• Crested Tit-warbler Leptopoecile elegans

  

  This bird is about 10 cm long. By day in the Himalayas, it searches for small invertebrates among conifers, dwarf juniper scrub, and birches at high elevations.

• Lumholtz’s Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi

  Lumholtz’s tree kangaroo lives in the upland forests of northern Queensland. It eats leaves and fruit and uses its tail for balance in the trees.

• Alpine Pipit Anthus gutturalis

  A pipit of New Guinea's high alpine grasslands. It favors short grass and places with nearby bushes.

• Little Chinese Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) meridianus

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

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus

  The northern bushbuck is an antelope ranging from the Sahel to eastern and parts of central-southern Africa. Its white spots and stripes vary by region, and males have spiralled horns.

• Moustached Turca Pteroptochos megapodius

  This terrestrial bird is endemic to central Chile. It walks with its tail raised and scratches or digs with one foot to find invertebrates. It prefers rocky ravines and scrub.

• Blackish Red Bat Lasiurus ebenus

  The Blackish Red Bat has been recorded in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Its type specimen has a black face and wings, with black and dark-brown bands in the back fur.

• White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis

  The White-breasted Kingfisher is a kingfisher with a red bill, blue back and tail, brown head and belly, and a white throat and breast. It eats fish and shrimp as well as crabs and lizards.

• Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon Cercopithecus petaurista

  The lesser spot-nosed guenon is marked by a white nose spot and beard. It carries food in cheek pouches.

• Black-browed Barbet Psilopogon oorti

  The Black-browed Barbet has red, blue, and yellow markings on the head and a black brow-like stripe. It forages in the canopy and mid-level branches, and accounts differ on the details of its diet.

• 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.

• Red-cowled Cardinal Paroaria dominicana

  Common in northeastern Brazil, this tanager has a red head and throat, grey back, black wings and tail, and a white underside to the tail; immatures have a duller orange head.

• Little Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus

  The little ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel of flat steppes and semi-deserts, ranging from the lower Dnieper to Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan.

• Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth that also visits lowlands in autumn and winter.

• Buffy Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus infuscus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in several countries of northwestern South America. One diet study was conducted in montane forest in central Peru.

• Andean Coot Fulica ardesiaca

  A coot of high Andean lakes and ponds. Bill and frontal-shield colors vary by region, and birds feed on open water, often in flocks.

• Dark Bolo Mouse Necromys obscurus

  The dark bolo mouse is recorded in separated areas of eastern Argentina and coastal Uruguay. It uses grassland and damp shore habitats and is often active on the ground by day.

• Dartford Warbler Curruca undata

  A long-tailed warbler that moves through low shrubs and feeds on small insects. In Britain it is found on heathland.

• Angolan Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus angolensis

  This fruit bat has white shoulder tufts in males. It lives in riverine woodland and open woodland and is active at night.

• Wattled crane Grus carunculata

  An African crane with feathered wattles hanging beneath its chin.

• Tammar wallaby Notamacropus eugenii

  A grass-eating wallaby with large ears and a long tail.

• Gould's Toucanet Selenidera gouldii

  A small toucan relative with a black head and chest in males and chestnut-brown head and chest in females. It lives in humid South American forests, and detailed diet records are limited.

• Barbary Lemniscomys Lemniscomys barbarus

  This small mouse has alternating light and dark stripes along its back. In the wild it is active by day and follows runways from grassy nests or burrows to feeding areas.