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• Southern Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus magellanicus

  

  The southern big-eared brown bat is recorded in southern Chile and Argentina. Its appearance is described, while species-specific behavior remains poorly known.

• Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata

  

  The Striolated Bunting is a small bunting of dry rocky ground and wadis. Its reddish wings and fine markings across the face and chest help distinguish it.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus

  

  The world's smallest gull. In breeding plumage it has a black head and dark underwings; it flies low over water to catch insects and small fish.

• Lesser Marmoset Rat Hapalomys delacouri

  

  The lesser marmoset rat has a tail longer than its body, ending in a tuft. A Vietnam guide reports it using bamboo internodes.

• Brown-banded Antpitta Grallaria milleri

  

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits humid forests in Colombia's central Andes. It walks along the forest floor to forage and has a broad chestnut band across the breast.

• Angolan colobus Colobus angolensis

  This monkey has a striking black-and-white pattern and a long tail. It moves among trees using its tail for balance and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Pale-faced Bat Phylloderma stenops

  The pale-faced bat is a large bat recorded in humid forests of Ecuador. Reports include foods ranging from small vertebrates to fruit.

• Pale Baywing Agelaioides fringillarius

  The Pale Baywing lives in semi-open habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is sandy brown with rufous wings and a heavy black bill. In a Minas Gerais study, 4–6 adults fed and defended six nests containing nestlings.

• Townsend's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus townsendii

  A ground squirrel of grasslands and sagebrush in southeastern Washington. It is gray and unspotted, with reddish coloring beneath its short tail.

• Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans

  The Tree Martin has a glossy blue-black head and back, a red-brown forehead, and a light gray rump. It catches insects in flight.

• California Red-backed Mouse Myodes californicus

  This vole is recorded along the Pacific coast of northern California and Oregon. It lives among leaf litter and fallen logs in moist forest and searches for fungi at night.

• Sinaloa Wren Thryophilus sinaloa

  The Sinaloa Wren is associated with tropical dry forest along Mexico’s Pacific slope. A 2022 study examined geographic and environmental differences among its subspecies.

• 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.

• Black-chested Prinia Prinia flavicans

  A black chest band marks the breeding plumage of this small prinia. In Namibia it searches for insects among branches and leaves in dry acacia scrub and other shrublands.

• Chinese Goral Naemorhedus caudatus

  The Chinese goral is a goat relative that lives on steep, rocky mountains. It also uses forested slopes and exposed grassy ridges.

• Orange-breasted Sunbird Anthobaphes violacea

  This sunbird is endemic to South Africa’s fynbos region. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates, with records suggesting seasonal movement between low and higher elevations.

• Pygmy Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) henleyi

  This small gerbil is known mainly from North Africa and the Middle East, with records from parts of the Sahel. Its naked soles are distinctive.

• Red-fronted Barbet Tricholaema diademata

  This 16–17 cm barbet uses upland bushland and acacia woodland and eats fruit. Sound recordings include Lake Langano in Ethiopia.

• Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes

  The black-shanked douc is a douc langur found in forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It spends most of its time in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Samoan Fantail Rhipidura nebulosa

  The Samoan Fantail is a small bird described with dusky plumage, a pale throat, and white feathers under the tail. Its life account here is limited to an 1848 observation in Samoa.

• Tree Bat Ardops nichollsi

  The lesser Antillean tree bat has brown fur and a white spot where the wing joins the body. It is thought to roost in woody vegetation on Dominica, but field observations are limited.

• Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectans

  Singapore's National Parks Board describes winter records in the country. The bird is mostly black with a black bill and uses shaded understory in wooded parks and waterside trees.