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• Gray Marmot Marmota (Marmota) baibacina

  

  This marmot lives in the highlands of the Altai and Tian Shan and spends much of the cold season hibernating.

• White-bearded Manakin Manacus manacus

  Males are black and white, while females are olive green. During breeding, males gather to display to females.

• Leaf-winged Bat Glauconycteris variegata

  Its wing membranes have a leaf-like net pattern, and the bat hides among foliage while roosting. It is widely but patchily recorded across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Brown Parrotbill Paradoxornis unicolor

  A parrotbill of the highlands around the Himalayas. Its stout yellow bill and arched black eyebrow help identify it.

• Long-tailed Pseudomys Pseudomys higginsi

  It has grayish-brown fur above, a white underside, and a slender tail longer than its body. It makes tunnels beneath the mossy floor of Tasmania’s wet forests.

• Black Hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus

  The Black Hornbill has a black body with white tips on the outer tail feathers. It forages in the upper and middle canopy of lowland forests.

• Colorful Pericote Auliscomys pictus

  The colorful pericote occurs in the high Andes of central and southern Peru and western Bolivia. Its account reports high-elevation grassland and rocky habitats.

• Glacier Finch Idiopsar speculifer

  This bird occurs in the high Andes of Bolivia. It forages on the ground on barren slopes near the snow line, in puna grassland, and in wetlands.

• Asia Minor Ground Squirrel Spermophilus xanthoprymnus

  The Asia Minor Ground Squirrel lives in steppes and alpine meadows from Anatolia in Turkey to Armenia and northwestern Iran. It is active by day and hibernates in winter.

• Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus

  This tyrant flycatcher has streaking on its head and back. It makes short sallies from high perches in the canopy to catch insects and other food.

• Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis

  The eastern red bat has bright red fur and rests curled in its tail membrane among foliage, where it can resemble a dead leaf or pine cone. It feeds mainly on moths in summer and migrates in fall.

• Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata

  For the nominate subspecies described in the Ehime account, chestnut ear patches and bands across the breast are distinctive. It breeds in Japanese grassland and uses grassy riverbanks and rice-field areas in Ehime during winter.

• Common Australian Rock Rat Zyzomys argurus

  The common Australian rock rat is a small-to-medium rodent associated with rocky outcrops. A juvenile was recorded at a sandstone outcrop in southern Queensland.

• White-throated Gerygone Gerygone olivacea

  The White-throated Gerygone is a small bird with gray-brown upperparts and bright yellow underparts.

• Amazonian Marsh Rat Holochilus sciureus

  The Amazonian Marsh Rat uses waterside habitats and wet grasslands. Coat color and reported range vary, and the older broad species account includes records that its authors considered uncertain.

• Blue Cotinga Cotinga nattererii

  Males have sky-blue plumage with a dark purplish throat and belly; females are brown and scaly. The species inhabits lowland forest canopy from eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador.

• Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

  The thirteen-lined ground squirrel has alternating dark and light stripes, with spots in the dark stripes. In Texas it uses underground burrows in grassland and pasture, and its food changes with the season.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Mount Kilimanjaro Vlei Rat Otomys zinki

  This vlei rat is recorded on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Its dark coat has ochre bands and black hair tips.

• Little Chachalaca Ortalis motmot

  A cracid of northern South America, recognized by reddish-brown plumage and a red throat wattle.

• 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.

• Yap Cicadabird Coracina nesiotis

  The Yap Cicadabird is recorded from Yap in Micronesia. A short 1976 survey saw a few birds in a forested valley and at a forest edge.

• Père David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Sciurotamias) davidianus

  Père David's rock squirrel is a diurnal squirrel of rocky habitats in China. Pale eye-rings are distinctive, and it burrows under rocks and stores seeds.

• White-eared Night Heron Oroanassa magnifica

  The White-eared Night Heron is a nocturnal heron with a pale stripe running from behind the eye along the cheek and throat. It lives in hill forests near water in parts of China and northeastern Vietnam.