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• Large-billed Reed-warbler Acrocephalus orinus

  

  A reed warbler with a relatively long bill and tail. Museum research supports breeding in Central Asia, although the precise breeding range and habitat remain unresolved.

• Honduran Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira hondurensis

  This bat is recorded from Mexico to northern Nicaragua. Its fur is dark gray to dark brown, with a paler underside. Many individuals, especially adult males, have reddish or yellow shoulder patches. It mainly eats fruit.

• Black Grasswren Amytornis housei

  This ground-dwelling bird lives in the Kimberley of northwestern Western Australia. Its black underparts, white streaks, and long tail are distinctive.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.

• Fernandina's Flicker Colaptes fernandinae

  This Cuban woodpecker uses open palm savanna and woodland, and forages both on trunks and on the ground.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.

• Madagascar Blue Pigeon Alectroenas madagascariensis

  A pigeon of eastern Madagascar’s forests, it has a silvery blue-grey neck, dark blue body, and conspicuous red tail. It feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Mexican Ground Squirrel Ictidomys mexicanus

  This ground squirrel has rows of white spots along its back. Records from Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in Mexico showed it active during the hottest part of the day.

• Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta

  Rhodospiza obsoleta is a finch of dry parts of Eurasia. The Royal Commission for AlUla’s bird guide records it at Tayma in Saudi Arabia.

• Short-nosed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) brevirostris

  This small harvest mouse is known from separated highland populations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Adults have a reddish back and a white-looking underside.

• Jerdon's Courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus

  This lapwing-like bird has a large eye and short, two-toned bill. It lives in dry thorn scrub and is nocturnal, so it is rarely encountered in the field.

• Cape Hairy Bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) tricolor

  A bat recorded widely in Africa. A southern African field guide describes reddish-brown fur and roosts in caves and old mine adits.

• Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex

  The Green Tinkerbird is a small bird with dull olive-green plumage, a yellow rump, and yellow wing bars. It uses dense forest undergrowth and edges in eastern Africa, eating fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Lakeland Downs Leggadina Leggadina lakedownensis

  This small mouse occurs in grassy habitats in central and northern Australia. The available account describes shared traits of its genus, including forward-projecting upper incisors and a short tail.

• Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala graeffii

  The Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler occurs on Fiji's islands. Male breast bands differ among island forms, and a tour account recorded very vocal birds on Taveuni.

• Tailed Tailless Bat Anoura caudifer

  Anoura caudifer is a small bat ranging from northern South America through Brazil to northwestern Argentina. It has a long, narrow muzzle and an extendable tongue for taking nectar, and occurs in humid tropical forests.

• Samoan Fantail Rhipidura nebulosa

  The Samoan Fantail is a small bird described with dusky plumage, a pale throat, and white feathers under the tail. Its life account here is limited to an 1848 observation in Samoa.

• Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest Connochaetes albojubatus

  It occurs from central Kenya to northern Tanzania, with its western range reaching the Gregory Rift. Its pale gray coat, creamy beard, and drooping mane are distinctive.

• White-streaked Friarbird Melitograis gilolensis

  The White-streaked Friarbird occurs in the North Moluccas. Fine white streaks mark its throat and breast; it feeds on nectar, arthropods and small fruit.

• Ursine Colobus Colobus vellerosus

  The ursine colobus is marked by a white ring around its face, white thighs, and a long pale tail. It moves through West African forests by day and eats leaves and seeds.

• Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis

  The Australian Bustard is a large bird of dry plains, grassland, and open woodland. It eats both plant and animal foods.

• Black-striped Squirrel Callosciurus nigrovittatus

  A squirrel with black stripes along its sides. It is active by day in trees and eats fruit and insects. Stripe patterns vary among subspecies.

• Brown-capped Vireo Vireo leucophrys

  A small vireo found from Central America into northwestern South America. In Colombia, it is recorded in forest from 1,000 to 2,800 m, feeding in middle and upper vegetation layers, alone or in mixed flocks.

• Coues' Oryzomys Oryzomys couesi

  Coues' oryzomys uses wetland habitat. At the southern tip of Texas, it is recorded among cattails and aquatic grasses.