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• Red-backed Buttonquail Turnix maculosus

  

  The Red-backed Buttonquail is a small ground bird marked by a rufous collar and a pale wing panel. Females are larger and more brightly colored than males.

• Zacatecan Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) zacatecae

  The Zacatecan harvest mouse has a reddish-brown back and a relatively long tail. In Jalisco, it is recorded in high temperate areas.

• MacGregor's Bowerbird Amblyornis macgregoriae

  The male MacGregor's Bowerbird has a conspicuous orange head plume. He builds and decorates a bower of sticks to court females. The species lives in mountain forests of central and eastern New Guinea.

• Taddei's Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii

  This medium-sized bat was described from the Atlantic Forest of southern and southeastern Brazil. The original description reports captures in forest and at forest edges.

• Large Woodshrike Tephrodornis virgatus

  This forest bird has a heavy bill and a dark band across the face. It searches quietly for food in the upper forest layers.

• Common Tent-making Bat Uroderma bilobatum

  The common tent-making bat chews leaf veins to create a resting place beneath a drooping leaf. It feeds mainly on fruit.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Cape Bushbuck Tragelaphus sylvaticus

  A bushbuck studied in KwaZulu-Natal, eastern South Africa. The sexes differ in coat colour, and only males have horns.

• Sichuan Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus forresti

  This leaf-warbler breeds in Sichuan. Its yellow crown stripe, yellow eyebrow, and pale yellow rump are among the field marks described in a specialist field guide.

• Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys gliroides

  The Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse is a small arboreal rodent of Asian forests. It uses trees and bamboo, and the long tail ends in a tuft of hair.

• Double-toothed Barbet Lybius bidentatus

  This barbet ranges from West to East Africa. Two prominent tooth-like projections mark the upper bill. It eats flying termites as well as fruit and nuts.

• Fischer's Pygmy Fruit Bat Haplonycteris fischeri

  This small, tailless bat has a darker head and cinnamon-brown fur. It lives in Philippine forests and eats fruit, including figs.

• Samoan Flycatcher Myiagra albiventris

  The Samoan Flycatcher is restricted to Samoa. It is found in open forest, forest edges, village gardens, and mangrove edges, where it makes short sallies to catch insects in the air.

• Uinta Ground Squirrel Urocitellus armatus

  The Uinta ground squirrel digs burrows in meadows and pastures in the western United States. It is active by day and hibernates in the cold season.

• West African Batis Batis occulta

  The West African Batis uses humid forest and edges, catching small invertebrates from a perch. Plumage and range here are limited to the occulta population in an older broad-species account.

• Gabon Talapoin Miopithecus ogouensis

  The northern talapoin is one of Africa's smallest monkeys and lives in lowland forest near rivers and lakes. It is active by day and forages for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Eurasian Scops Owl Otus scops

  The Eurasian Scops Owl is a small grey or reddish-brown owl. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on large insects.

• Watson's Climbing Rat Tylomys watsoni

  Watson's climbing rat has a long, white-tipped tail and large ears. It uses trees at night but is also recorded on the ground around rocks and fallen logs.

• White-crowned Lapwing Vanellus albiceps

  The White-crowned Lapwing has a white forehead and crown, gray face, brown back, and white underside. It walks along riversides looking for insects and other small invertebrates.

• Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis

  The evening bat has dark brown to black fur and broad ears. It roosts in tree hollows and under loose bark, and sometimes uses buildings.

• Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

  This seabird spends much of its time over the North Pacific and returns to remote island colonies to raise its chick.

• Incan Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus incarum

  A broad-nosed bat occurring east of the Andes. Records from Brazil’s Cerrado and Pantanal were confirmed as P. incarum rather than P. helleri.

• Black-headed Berryeater Carpornis melanocephala

  The Black-headed Berryeater is a cotinga of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. A field report documented a male passing fruit to a female.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.