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• Citron-crested Cockatoo Cacatua citrinocristata

  

  This white cockatoo is restricted to Sumba Island, Indonesia. Its crest and ear-coverts are golden orange, and the iris differs in color between males and females.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• Slaty Vireo Vireo brevipennis

  This vireo occurs in Mexico. It has slate-gray plumage and a long tail, with green edges on the wing and tail feathers. In 1998, a nesting pair was observed in dry subtropical woodland in Oaxaca.

• Dusky-footed Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) fuscipes

  The dusky-footed woodrat lives in California forests and chaparral, where it builds large houses from sticks and leaves. This entry limits its range to records within California.

• Red-headed Barbet Eubucco bourcierii

  The Red-headed Barbet is sometimes found in pairs or mixed-species flocks in the forest canopy. Males have bright red heads, green backs, and yellow bellies; females have blue cheeks and orange sides to the neck.

• Canefield Rat Rattus sordidus

  This ground-dwelling rat occurs in northeastern Australia. A survey in the Pellew Islands also recorded it in grassy open woodland.

• Lucy's Warbler Leiothlypis luciae

  Lucy's Warbler is found in mesquite woodland along streams in the arid Southwest. Adult males show cinnamon on the crown and rump, while females and young birds can be duller.

• Domestic yak Bos grunniens

  A domestic yak kept on the Tibetan Plateau and elsewhere. Its long shaggy coat protects it from the cold.

• Carpentarian Grasswren Amytornis dorotheae

  This bird inhabits spinifex grassland and rocky areas in northern Australia, around the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

• Ognev's Long-eared Bat Plecotus ognevi

  A long-eared bat recorded widely across northern Asia. Its back is brown and its underside off-white, while much of its daily ecology remains poorly documented.

• Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus

  A stork with a large bill and little feathering on its head and neck. In Bangladesh it occurs around shallow wetlands, grassland and farmland.

• Moor Macaque Macaca maura

  The Moor macaque occurs in southwestern Sulawesi. It is mainly fruit-eating and also eats leaves and arthropods.

• Italian Sparrow Passer italiae

  The Italian Sparrow occurs in towns and rural areas in Italy and uses places close to people. Males and females differ in head markings, and the birds nest in gaps in buildings and similar sites.

• Spotted Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus spilosoma

  The spotted ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of dry and open habitats in Texas. It stays near its burrow and is active in early morning and late afternoon.

• Blue Bird-of-paradise Paradisornis rudolphi

  The male has blue wings and long ornamental plumes, while the female has brown underparts. It lives in montane forest of central and eastern New Guinea and feeds mostly on fruit.

• Recife Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus recifinus

  This leaf-nosed fruit bat is recorded in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It has contrasting pale stripes on the back and face, and a field report documented leaf tents used as daytime roosts in one forest fragment.

• Ringed Storm Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi

  Ringed Storm Petrels occur offshore along the Humboldt Current on the west coast of South America. A breeding site has also been recorded inland in Chile's Atacama Region, where birds were reported to enter the nesting site at night.

• Marsh Rice Rat Oryzomys palustris

  This semiaquatic rat uses wetlands and watersides. The balance of plant and animal foods in its diet varies by region.

• Subantarctic Shearwater Puffinus elegans

  The Subantarctic Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on remote islands in the Southern Ocean. It nests in soil burrows, but New Zealand Birds Online says much of its biology remains poorly known.

• Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni

  The grassland melomys has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside. In a Halmahera survey, it was caught in ground-level traps in secondary growth, including near rivers.

• Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita

  The Chatham Albatross breeds on rocky islands in the Chatham Islands. Adults have a dark grey head and a white body.

• Sumatran Serow Capricornis sumatraensis

  The Sumatran serow has a dark coat and backward-pointing horns. It lives mainly in mountain forests and near cliffs.

• Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus

  A coastal cormorant smaller than the Japanese Cormorant, with crests and white patches in breeding season.

• Long-fingered Myotis Myotis (Myotis) capaccinii

  This medium-sized gray bat occurs around the Mediterranean and into West Asia. Its legs are noticeably hairy, its feet are large and strong, and it takes fish and aquatic insects from the water surface.