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• Sichuan Grasshopper-warbler Locustella chengi

  

  This bush warbler was described from central China. In southern Sichuan, it has been recorded in dense low herbs and ferns, forest clearings, sparse secondary forest, and tea plantations.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• Ashy Storm Petrel Hydrobates homochroa

  This small seabird uses the cool waters off California. It feeds close to the sea surface and breeds on islands from central California to northern Baja.

• Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis

  The golden-mantled ground squirrel lives from woodlands to alpine meadows in western North America and makes burrows in rocks or underground.

• Owston's Tit Sittiparus owstoni

  This tit inhabits forests on the southern Izu Islands. It eats insects as well as seeds and nuts.

• Bonaerense Pericote Phyllotis bonariensis

  The Bonaerense Pericote is a rodent reported as restricted to the Sierra de la Ventana in Argentina. The account notes rocky habitat but provides no published behavior or diet data.

• White-spotted Fantail Rhipidura albogularis

  Rhipidura albogularis is listed from southern India and the northern Eastern Ghats. A 2021–2023 breeding study followed 15 nests in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

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

• Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis

  A small heron that hides in reeds and freezes with its neck stretched when it senses danger.

• Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat Murina ussuriensis

  The Ussuri tube-nosed bat is recorded from Hokkaido to Kyushu in Japan. It leaves its roost at dusk to catch flying insects and hibernates in winter.

• Japanese bush warbler Horornis diphone

  A small bird of satoyama woods, low hills and thickets, known for its spring song.

• Phayre's Langur Trachypithecus phayrei

  This forest monkey moves through trees and feeds mainly on leaves. Adults are dark blue-gray, while young are born with yellowish fur.

• Chocolate Boobook Ninox randi

  The Chocolate Boobook is an owl of the main Philippine islands. It is recorded in lowland and foothill forest and along forest edges.

• Long-snouted Bat Platalina genovensium

  The Peruvian long-snouted bat has a greatly elongated muzzle. It feeds on nectar and fruit from columnar cacti in desert areas west of the Andes.

• Hodgson's Frogmouth Batrachostomus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird that rests motionless by day, blending with tree bark, and catches insects at night with its wide gape. The sexes have different plumage colors.

• 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.

• Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta

  This small bird lives in South America's Atlantic Forest and is closely associated with bamboo. It eats bamboo buds, shoots and insects, and may move as bamboo conditions change.

• Franklin's Ground Squirrel Poliocitellus franklinii

  Franklin's ground squirrel prefers tall grass where prairie meets woodland and digs underground burrows. It eats both plant and animal foods. In Missouri, populations have declined with habitat loss and fragmentation.

• Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

  A glossy black crow with a long, curved red bill and red legs. In Britain it occurs along western coasts, around cliffs and coastal grassland.

• Tatra Pine Vole Microtus (Microtus) tatricus

  The Tatra pine vole is recorded in upper montane forest and alpine meadow in the Tatra Mountains. Its back is light reddish brown, and records include rocky debris near streams.

• Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger

  This grackle occurs widely across the Greater Antilles. Males are glossy and dark, while females are browner; the birds also search for food in towns.

• Saiga Saiga tatarica

  An antelope distinguished by a large nose that hangs over the mouth.

• Rusty-tinged Antpitta Grallaria przewalskii

  This antpitta is endemic to Peru and searches for food near the ground in montane forest. It has a brown back, with rusty coloring on the sides of the head and neck.

• Tropical Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus velatus

  The tropical big-eared brown bat has large, triangular ears. Brazilian records span several biomes, including Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.