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• Gray Red-backed Vole Myodes rufocanus

  

  This vole occurs across northern Eurasia. It has a reddish-brown back and gray sides; in northern Europe it is common in conifer forest and also lives in scrub and meadows.

• Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea

  The Cliff Flycatcher is marked by deep rufous underparts and extensive rufous on the wings and tail. From exposed rocky perches it sallies after flying insects, often returning to the same perch.

• Desert Pygmy Mouse Mus (Nannomys) indutus

  Mus indutus is a small mouse recorded in dry savanna in southern Africa. Some records have been difficult to distinguish from those of a close relative, so parts of its distribution remain uncertain.

• Biak Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera riedelii

  The Biak Paradise Kingfisher is found only on Biak Island, Indonesia. It has blue plumage and a long tail, and takes insects and spiders from the forest floor.

• Yellow Ground Squirrel Spermophilus fulvus

  The yellow ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel that digs burrows in dry parts of Central Asia.

• Parakeet Auklet Aethia psittacula

  The Parakeet Auklet has a thick orange bill and white head plume and searches for food at sea in the North Pacific.

• Atlantic Forest Rhipidomys Rhipidomys mastacalis

  This small rodent has a head-and-body length of 125–155 mm. It is arboreal and nocturnal, and has been recorded in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest.

• Balearic Warbler Curruca balearica

  The Balearic Warbler is endemic to the Balearic Islands and has a long tail and red eye-ring. It feeds on small invertebrates in dense Mediterranean scrub.

• Ethiopian Arvicanthis Arvicanthis abyssinicus

  The Ethiopian arvicanthis lives in grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands. It is active on the ground by day and is thought to feed mainly on plants.

• Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis

  The Beijing Babbler is a resident of northern China and North Korea. It has a long tail, a streaked grey-brown back, a white throat, and rusty flanks.

• Dusky Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) sublineatus

  This small palm squirrel lives in damp forest. It has subdued coloring and faint stripes, and observations in India record it feeding on nectar and fruit.

• Fulvous-chinned Nunlet Nonnula sclateri

  This bird occurs in lowland Amazonia in Peru, with many records from Ucayali and Madre de Dios. It is brown to gray-brown, has red orbital skin, and may sit motionless on a branch for long periods.

• Sagebrush Vole Lemmiscus curtatus

  The sagebrush vole lives in western North America among sagebrush and bunchgrasses. It eats flowers and moist vegetation and carries food into its burrow.

• Grey-crested Helmetshrike Prionops poliolophus

  A helmetshrike recorded from southwestern Kenya to western Tanzania, in scrub and open woodland. It may live in groups and breed cooperatively.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis

  A lark of dry Central Asian steppe. Males are conspicuously black, and a study in Kazakhstan recorded nests on the ground.

• Variegated Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) variegatoides

  The variegated squirrel is a long-tailed tree squirrel whose coat color and pattern vary greatly among subspecies. It lives in forests and open woodland in Central America.

• Marsh Babbler Pellorneum palustre

  An old field account records the Marsh Babbler in Assam, northeastern India. It describes a bird that skulks in grass and reeds, with olive-brown upperparts and streaked flanks.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Golden-whiskered Barbet Psilopogon chrysopogon

  The Golden-whiskered Barbet lives in forests from the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. It forages mainly for fruit in the canopy.

• Yellow-necked Field Mouse Apodemus flavicollis

  Apodemus flavicollis is described in a British mammal atlas as mainly a woodland mouse. The yellowish band below its neck joins the brown upper fur, and many British records are near ancient woodland.

• Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena

  This large albatross breeds on islands in the South Atlantic. Adults are mostly white, and birds range widely across the South Atlantic outside the breeding period.

• Gray-footed Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) canipes

  This chipmunk lives in mountains of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas. It is mainly terrestrial and stores acorns and other seeds for winter.

• Brown-headed Greenlet Hylophilus brunneiceps

  The Brown-headed Greenlet has a brown head and olive-green back. In northern Brazil it occurs in flooded forest and white-sand woodland, where it searches leaf undersides for insects and caterpillars. Its range also extends into eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.