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• Bryant's Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) bryanti

  

  Its range extends from coastal California to the southern tip of Baja California and includes islands. A California study recorded it on a boulder-strewn hill.

• Spotted Grasshopper-warbler Locustella thoracica

  This warbler has dark brown upperparts, a white throat, and spotted breast markings. It breeds in high areas from the eastern and central Himalayas to central China; one winter record is reported from northern Thailand.

• Golden-bellied Mangabey Cercocebus chrysogaster

  The golden-bellied mangabey is notable for orange fur on the front of its body. In forests and wetlands of the central Congo Basin, groups travel through trees and on the ground to find food.

• Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor erythrocercum

  The Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in forests across South America, including Peru. It has a rufous tail and rump and a pale throat.

• Western Dwarf Squirrel Microsciurus mimulus

  This small squirrel has reddish or olive tones mixed into its dark back. It is active by day, uses trees and the ground, and feeds on tree sap and insects.

• Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura

  The Fanti Saw-wing flies around moist woodland and water, catching small invertebrates in the air.

• Whitehead's Woolly Bat Kerivoula whiteheadi

  Whitehead's woolly bat is a small bat with a broad distribution in the Philippines. Its reddish-brown back and banded hairs are distinctive.

• Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera

  A pheasant whose male has white-and-black patterned feathers on its back and long tail.

• Common eland Taurotragus oryx

  A large antelope that lives in grassland and open woodland.

• Indian Skimmer Rynchops albicollis

  The Indian Skimmer has a lower bill longer than the upper one. Outside the breeding season its plumage is duller, with browner upperparts.

• Namaqua rock mouse Micaelamys namaquensis

  The Namaqua rock mouse is a rodent of southern Africa. It is often recorded in rocky settings, where it uses grass nests in crevices and similar shelters.

• Gould's Toucanet Selenidera gouldii

  A small toucan relative with a black head and chest in males and chestnut-brown head and chest in females. It lives in humid South American forests, and detailed diet records are limited.

• Savi's Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) savii

  This vole has reddish-brown fur and a short tail. It makes underground galleries and lives in colonies in grassland and around fields.

• Lesser Florican Sypheotides indicus

  The Lesser Florican is a small bustard of Indian grasslands. A breeding-season study recorded males making wing-fluttering display flights in open country.

• Campbell's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus campbelli

  This arboreal monkey lives in coastal West Africa. It forms groups, eats fruits and leaves, and uses calls to signal danger and other cues.

• Double-banded Courser Rhinoptilus africanus

  The Double-banded Courser lives in open arid country. Two black breast bands stand out, and it feeds by running a short distance before pecking at insects on the ground.

• Eastern Chipmunk Tamias (Tamias) striatus

  The eastern chipmunk is a small squirrel relative of forests and woodland edges in eastern North America. Its back stripes stop before the base of the tail.

• Simeulue Scops Owl Otus umbra

  The Simeulue Scops Owl is a small owl found on Simeulue Island off northwest Sumatra. Adults weigh about 95 g and hunt invertebrates at night.

• Long-tailed Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus

  A small bat of New Zealand. At dusk it flies along forest edges and catches insects.

• Giant Kingfisher Megaceryle maxima

  A large kingfisher of sub-Saharan African waters, hunting fish, crabs, and other prey.

• Nubian Ibex Capra nubiana

  A wild goat of dry, rocky mountains in northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It moves along slopes by day to graze on grasses and leaves.

• Southern Carmine Bee-eater Merops nubicoides

  The Southern Carmine Bee-eater has reddish-pink plumage and long central tail streamers. It nests in colonies in burrows on river sandbanks and catches insects in flight.

• Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis

  The spinifex hopping mouse lives in sandy areas from central Australia into the west. It is active at night, moves by hopping, and digs deep burrows in the sand.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.