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• Plumbeous Sierra Finch Geospizopsis unicolor

  

  This finch inhabits the Andean highlands. It forages on rocky ground and steppe slopes and may move to lower ground in winter.

• Mexican Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma scopaeum

  This Mexican bat has records along the Pacific side of the country and as far east as Veracruz. It uses dry forest and riparian forest.

• Greater Adjutant Leptoptilos dubius

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

• Hamadryas baboon Papio hamadryas

  A baboon of dry grasslands and rocky areas; the adult male’s long mane looks like a cape around the shoulders.

• Sri Lanka Swallow Cecropis hyperythra

  A swallow of Sri Lanka, it has a silvery purple-blue back and rusty rump and underparts. It catches insects in flight.

• Sumatran Mountain Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) altitudinis

  This squirrel is recorded in the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra. It uses forest layers from low bushes to the canopy and feeds on acorn-like nuts called “giseng” by local people.

• Madanga Anthus ruficollis

  The 2015 paper uses the name Madanga ruficollis, while the pool lists Anthus ruficollis. It describes a Buru forest bird that searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Indomalayan Leopoldamys Leopoldamys sabanus

  The Indomalayan Leopoldamys has a dark back, pale belly, and long tail. It is mainly ground-dwelling but can climb, and eats fruit, vegetation, and insects.

• Bornean Whistler Pachycephala hypoxantha

  The Bornean Whistler searches montane forest for insects and sometimes seeds. It has yellow underparts and olive-yellow upperparts.

• Small-eared Colilargo Oligoryzomys microtis

  This small rodent occurs in the Amazon Basin. Its upper fur is yellowish brown with fine black tips, its underside is white, and it is described as terrestrial in lowland rainforest edge habitat.

• Madagascan Grebe Tachybaptus pelzelnii

  The Madagascar Grebe is a small diving bird endemic to Madagascar. In breeding plumage it has a black head and reddish-brown sides to the upper 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.

• Mexican Whip-poor-will Antrostomus arizonae

  This night-active nightjar has fine brown, gray, and buff markings. It hides on the forest floor by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• Defassa waterbuck Kobus defassa

  The Defassa form has a solid white rump patch rather than the white ring of the common waterbuck. At Nechisar in southern Ethiopia, a 2016–17 study recorded mainly grazing, with more browsing in the dry season.

• Grey-backed Hawk Pseudastur occidentalis

  It has dark grey upperparts, a white underside, and a streaked head. A thick black band near the tip of its white tail is especially visible in flight.

• Tri-colored Big-eared Bat Glyphonycteris sylvestris

  The tricolored big-eared bat is a small bat found in the Neotropics. Its back fur has three bands: dark at the base and tip, with a lighter band between them. It is also recorded in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• Red-shanked douc langur Pygathrix nemaeus

  The red-shanked douc langur is a tree-dwelling monkey of the tropical forests of Vietnam and Laos.

• Australian Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae

  The Australian Masked Owl lives in forests and woodland edges and hunts small mammals at night. Its plumage occurs in pale, intermediate, and dark forms.

• American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

  A squirrel of North American coniferous forests. In summer it collects spruce cones and stores them for winter.

• Brown-hooded Gull Chroicocephalus maculipennis

  This gull is recorded across Argentina around rivers, lakes, and wetlands. In breeding plumage its brown hood contrasts with the bright red bill and legs.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Dwarf Tyrant-Manakin Tyranneutes stolzmanni

  This small manakin lives in lowland evergreen forest in western Amazonia. The account records it up to about 800 m in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. It gives no detailed information about diet or breeding.

• Drylands Laucha Calomys musculinus

  The drylands laucha is a small mouse recorded around grassland and farmland in Argentina. It eats seeds and is mainly nocturnal, though daytime activity has also been reported.