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• Clear-winged Woolly Bat Kerivoula pellucida

  

  The clear-winged woolly bat is a small bat with pale fur and nearly translucent wing membranes. It occurs on islands in Southeast Asia, with records of roosting in dead leaves.

• Yellow-vented Warbler Phylloscopus cantator

  The Yellow-vented Warbler uses mountain bamboo and evergreen broadleaf forest during the breeding season and moves southeast in winter. The nominate subspecies described in the source is yellow with a white belly.

• Cotton Deermouse Peromyscus gossypinus

  The cotton deermouse is one of the larger members of its genus in the United States. It is native to the southeastern region and forages at night on fruits, seeds, and insects.

• Rodrigues Fody Foudia flavicans

  A small bird endemic to Rodrigues. Both sexes are usually brown on the back, wings and tail, and search branches and leaf undersides for insects.

• Sclater's Guenon Cercopithecus sclateri

  Sclater's guenon is a small monkey known for its complex facial pattern and long tail. It occurs in floodplain forests between the Niger and Cross rivers in southeastern Nigeria.

• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus

  This forest bird has a grey and green back with vivid orange on the throat and breast.

• Tschudi's Tailless Bat Anoura peruana

  This nectar-feeding bat occurs in the Andes. A 2019 study in the La Paz Valley found pollen and fecal evidence suggesting that it feeds on 14 locally native or cultivated plant species. That evidence comes from one Bolivian valley.

• Yellow-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum aureolimbatum

  This tiny flowerpecker occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. Its olive-green upperparts and diet of fruit and pollen are notable.

• Macedonian Mouse Mus (Mus) macedonicus

  This small mouse resembles the house mouse but is mainly associated with natural grasslands and scrub. Identification from appearance alone can be difficult in some areas; chromosome and genetic evidence may be used to distinguish related mice.

• Brown Jacamar Brachygalba lugubris

  The Brown Jacamar lives in South American woodland and savanna forest. It has a long pointed bill and a rufous breast.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.

• Striated Heron Butorides striata

  A small waterside heron found in Brazil around lakes, rivers, estuaries, and mangroves.

• Russet Ground Squirrel Spermophilus major

  The russet ground squirrel digs burrows in grassland and river valleys. It forages by day and hibernates in winter.

• Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus

  A common sparrow of dry grassland and woodland in southern Africa. It mainly eats seeds, but also takes insects, fruit and nectar.

• Escalera's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) escalerai

  This bat occurs mainly across the Iberian Peninsula. Its dorsal fur ranges from brownish to grayish, with a paler underside, long ears, and a pointed tragus. It roosts in caves and mines and is believed to eat insects and spiders.

• Yellow-rumped Seedeater Crithagra xanthopygia

  This finch is reported as common in dry, open scrub in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. A 2020 expedition also recorded 12 birds in Djibouti and described their plumage.

• Contreras' Juliomys Juliomys pictipes

  This mouse lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America and uses lower and middle levels of the vegetation.

• Crimson Sunbird Aethopyga siparaja

  The Crimson Sunbird is a small bird that takes nectar, spiders, and insects. Males are red, while females are olive-colored, so the sexes look different.

• Upper Guinea Red Colobus Piliocolobus badius

  A red colobus monkey of forests along the Gulf of Guinea. Coat colours and patterns vary among populations.

• Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill Tockus ruahae

  This red-billed hornbill form was recorded in central and southern Tanzania. Its original description named ruahae as a subspecies of Tockus erythrorhynchus.

• Aztec Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) aztecus

  This fruit-eating bat includes a population in Mexico's mountains. It eats fruit and carries seeds to other parts of the forest.

• Grey-backed Tailorbird Orthotomus derbianus

  This small warbler occurs in the Philippines. It is greyish overall and mainly searches for insects in forest tangles and low scrub.

• Northern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys pallidus

  The northern Luzon phloeomys is a large rodent found in northern Luzon. It often uses trees but also moves on the ground.

• Bismarck Monarch Symposiachrus verticalis

  This monarch is found in Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago. It uses lowland and hilly forest and bamboo, foraging in the lower and middle levels of trees.