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• Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea

  

  A small heron of wetlands and estuaries in the southeastern United States. Some birds breeding inland migrate to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

• White-bellied Akodont Akodon (Akodon) albiventer

  The white-bellied akodont is a small rodent of the Andean highlands. Its grizzled-grey back contrasts with a white belly, and most records come from 3,000–4,500 m.

• Rufous-headed Tailorbird Phyllergates heterolaemus

  This tailorbird was described from a specimen collected on Mount Apo, Mindanao. The original account describes one adult of undetermined sex and notes that it was found among bushes.

• Suni Neotragus moschatus

  This small antelope has a speckled gray-to-chestnut back and a whitish underside. Only males have horns; it occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Black-backed Wood Quail Odontophorus melanonotus

  The Black-backed Wood Quail has a dark brown back and a rufous throat and breast. It forages on the forest floor in montane forests spanning northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia.

• Grivet Chlorocebus aethiops

  The grivet is a monkey of northeastern Africa. A forest study in northern Ethiopia recorded a diet that changed with the season.

• Chinese Bush-Warbler Locustella tacsanowskia

  The Chinese Bush-Warbler is a plain brown bird that breeds from southern Siberia to southern China. It keeps hidden in vegetation on its breeding grounds, and its winter range is uncertain.

• Elegant Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) elegans

  This small bat has an orange to reddish-brown back and a pale orange belly. It ranges from Mexico to Costa Rica in lowlands, and its echolocation calls are recorded as short inverted-J shapes.

• Azure-breasted Pitta Pitta steerii

  This pitta is conspicuous for its bright blue breast and red lower belly. It lives in lowland forest on a limited group of Philippine islands.

• Hopi Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) rufus

  This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.

• Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus

  A bee-eater described in a Malaysian regional profile, where it occurs around sandy coasts, riverbanks, and farmland. It catches flying insects in the air.

• New Holland Pseudomys Pseudomys novaehollandiae

  This small mouse has pale gray-brown fur and pink feet. Its recorded populations are scattered across grassland and woodland in southeastern Australia.

• Greater Adjutant Leptoptilos dubius

  A large stork with a pinkish head and neck, a white neck ruff, and a hanging pouch on the chest.

• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• 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.

• Bushy-tailed Woodrat Neotoma (Teonoma) cinerea

  This rodent of western North America is known for its bushy tail and piles of plant material around its rocky shelters.

• Great Blue Turaco Corythaeola cristata

  The Great Blue Turaco is a large bird with blue feathers and a red-and-yellow bill. It moves deftly through rainforest canopy and occurs in Central and West Africa.

• Cavendish's Dik-dik Madoqua cavendishi

  The current Mammal Diversity Database account places this dik-dik in eastern Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania. A study at Mpala in central Kenya was conducted in semi-arid Acacia bushland.

• Rufous-collared Kingfisher Actenoides concretus

  The Rufous-collared Kingfisher is a colorful forest kingfisher. It favors woodland near water and takes fish as well as large insects and small animals.

• Miller's Langur Presbytis canicrus

  Presbytis canicrus is a langur of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. A field report identified it by its dark head, white forehead, and gray back, and recorded an individual active in a karst-forest tree while eating fruit.

• Kalkadoon Grasswren Amytornis ballarae

  This grasswren lives on rocky hills near Mount Isa, moving on the ground through spinifex clumps. Its range and biology remain incompletely studied.

• 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.

• Pheasant Pigeon Otidiphaps nobilis

  The Pheasant Pigeon is a pigeon that spends much of its time on the ground and has pheasant-like habits. It eats seeds and fallen fruit.

• Mongolian marmot Marmota (Marmota) sibirica

  The Siberian marmot hibernates through the harsh season.