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• Dark-necked Tailorbird Orthotomus atrogularis

  

  This small bird occurs widely in South and Southeast Asia. It has olive upperparts and a rufous crown; males have a dark throat patch.

• Leon Paniagua’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus leonpaniaguae

  This big-eared bat lives in northeastern Mexico. Its description reports the dorsal fur colors and a group of pregnant females found in a cave.

• Australian Swiftlet Aerodramus terraereginae

  This swiftlet is resident in north-eastern Queensland and breeds in caves and gorges. It makes echolocation clicks when entering dark caves.

• Dwarf Little Fruit Bat Rhinophylla pumilio

  A small fruit-eating bat widespread in northern South America. It lacks a tail and uses folded leaves as daytime roost tents.

• Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola

  A little-known snipe that breeds in Himalayan alpine regions. A study in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China, found breeding birds foraging where soil fauna were more abundant.

• Aders' Duiker Cephalophus adersi

  This forest antelope has a reddish-brown body, gray nape and a white band from rump to hind legs. Records are from East African coastal forest and scrub, with activity mainly by day.

• White-chinned Jacamar Galbula tombacea

  This jacamar uses riverine forest and the edges of seasonally flooded forest in the Amazon Basin. Its metallic green plumage and white chin patch are distinctive; it catches flying insects in the air.

• Sundevall's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) crassus

  This jird has a sandy back with black spots and a white underside. It often leaves its burrow in the evening to feed on seeds and vegetation.

• Bar-breasted Honeyeater Ramsayornis fasciatus

  The Bar-breasted Honeyeater has gray bars on its chest and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. This small Australian bird feeds on nectar and insects.

• Alaska Marmot Marmota (Marmota) broweri

  The Alaska marmot is a large squirrel relative that makes burrows among rocky areas in northern Alaska. It eats grasses, flowers, and roots in summer and hibernates in its burrow in winter.

• Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola

  Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler is a small brown bird. It breeds in parts of Central Asia and Siberia and winters in Singapore.

• Tana River Red Colobus Piliocolobus rufomitratus

  The Tana River red colobus lives in riverine forest along the lower Tana River in eastern Kenya. It feeds in the morning and late afternoon and spends much of the day resting.

• African Houbara Chlamydotis undulata

  A bustard of dry North African landscapes. It uses sandy or stony semi-desert with scattered plants and shrubs.

• Black-wristed Deermouse Peromyscus melanocarpus

  This small mouse lives in mountain forests of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Dark fur on its wrists and lower forelegs stands out; it forages at night for seeds and other foods on the forest floor.

• Ruwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni

  This turaco occurs in montane forest along the Albertine Rift in East Africa. Its green and violet-blue body contrasts with red flight feathers, and it mainly eats fruit.

• 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.

• Red Siskin Spinus cucullatus

  Males are red and black, while females are much duller. This small finch eats fruit, seeds, and buds, and may move with seasonal rains.

• Silky Short-tailed Bat Carollia brevicaudum

  Carollia brevicauda occurs across parts of Central and South America. A study in the Colombian Andes followed one colony that used an artificial refuge.

• Malagasy Pond Heron Ardeola idae

  In breeding plumage it is entirely white, with long plumes from the head down the nape. Birds from Madagascar migrate to mainland Africa after breeding.

• Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum

  An antelope of water-rich grasslands in central and southern Africa; only males have horns.

• Beautiful Nuthatch Sitta formosa

  A large nuthatch with a black back streaked white, bright blue back and shoulders, and orange underparts, it forages on large trees in wet high-elevation evergreen forest.

• Nilgiri Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria nilagirica

  This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.

• Cuban Palm Crow Corvus minutus

  This crow is endemic to western Cuba. It is reported mainly from lowland cultivation with scattered palms, where it forages on the ground for invertebrates, lizards and fruit.

• Central American Dwarf Squirrel Microsciurus alfari

  Alfaro's pygmy squirrel ranges from Central America into Colombia. It lives hidden in forest undergrowth, and little direct information is available about its diet.