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• White-bellied Bustard Eupodotis senegalensis

  

  This large ground bird has a white face and belly and long legs. Males have black on the head, while females have a paler brown neck.

• Insular Flying Fox Pteropus tonganus

  The insular flying fox, also called the Pacific flying fox, is a large bat of Pacific islands. It roosts in tall trees by day and searches for fruit and flowers at night.

• Sagebrush Sparrow Artemisiospiza nevadensis

  This sparrow breeds in open sage-dominated shrubsteppe in western North America. During migration and winter it also uses dry scrub with creosote or saltbush.

• Durango Deermouse Peromyscus schmidlyi

  The Durango Deermouse was described from western Mexico. The original paper reports mountain records in Durango and eastern Sinaloa.

• Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae

  This large turaco is 51–54 cm long. It is active by day and eats fruit and flower nectar in African tropical woodlands.

• Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) myotis

  The greater mouse-eared bat is a large bat found in western, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.

• Scaled Ground Cuckoo Neomorphus squamiger

  This rare, terrestrial cuckoo inhabits rainforest between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers in Brazil. Its behavior is still poorly known.

• Walia Ibex Capra walie

  A wild goat of the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Gray Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga leachii

  The gray long-tongued bat is a small bat that feeds on nectar, pollen, fruit, and insects.

• Miombo Tit Melaniparus griseiventris

  The Miombo Tit is a black, white, and grey member of the tit family. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland it forages on large trees and sometimes joins other small birds.

• Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus avunculus

  Adult Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are known for their upturned noses and bluish facial skin. The species is recorded in limestone forests of northern Vietnam and eats leaves and unripe fruit.

• Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus

  The Spotted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird that searches for seeds in dry, open country.

• Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus madrensis

  The Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel has a pale coat with subdued dark stripes. It lives in high-elevation pine forest in northwestern Mexico, is active by day, and hibernates in winter.

• Firewood-gatherer Anumbius annumbi

  A small brown bird of the Pampas. It builds a large stick nest, and males decorate the outside with fur, feathers, and other objects.

• Australian Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus

  The Australian swamp rat lives in wet grasslands in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It makes runways through vegetation and eats grasses and sedges.

• Singing Quail Dactylortyx thoracicus

  A quail of forest floors in Mexico and northern Central America, with gray-brown, white-streaked plumage that runs rather than taking flight when alarmed.

• Dagger-toothed Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus minimus

  This small bat feeds mainly on flower nectar and pollen, using its long snout to reach flowers. It also carries pollen between flowers.

• Speckle-breasted Wren Pheugopedius sclateri

  This wren has plain rufous-brown upperparts and a gray, black-barred tail. It forages low and midway in forests in Ecuador and Peru.

• European hamster Cricetus cricetus

  A wild hamster that carries plants and grains in its cheek pouches and stores them underground.

• Silvereye Zosterops lateralis

  A small bird seen in Australia and other regions, with a conspicuous white eye-ring. It eats insects, fruit and nectar.

• Thick-thumbed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) rosseti

  This small bat is known from Cambodia, southern Thailand, and Vietnam. At one Vietnamese site, it was observed flying low over thickets and maize fields while foraging.

• Tropical Mockingbird Mimus gilvus

  This mockingbird has a grey back, pale underparts, and a long tail with a white tip. It lives in open lowlands and eats insects and fruit.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.