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• Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse Mus (Nannomys) musculoides

  

  The Subsaharan Pygmy Mouse is a very small mouse. At Chappal Waddi in Nigeria, it was common in savanna grassland and less common in the forest zone.

• Fernbird Megalurus punctatus

  New Zealand Birds Online lists this bird as Poodytes punctatus, while the pool uses Megalurus punctatus. Its page describes the same Fernbird as small, well camouflaged and patchily distributed around New Zealand.

• Peters's Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) oculatus

  This squirrel lives in Mexican forests. Its white ears and underside stand out against its mostly gray coat, with a black stripe running from the back toward the tail. It is most active around sunrise and before sunset.

• Karthala White-eye Zosterops mouroniensis

  The Karthala White-eye is tied to montane heath on Mount Karthala, Grand Comoro. It moves in energetic flocks and has a narrow white eye-ring and yellow underparts.

• Heather Vole Phenacomys intermedius

  The Heather Vole has long, soft fur. It stays active all year, using burrows in summer and surface nests beneath the snow in winter.

• Pale-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis bruijnii

  A bird-of-paradise of lowland rainforest in northern New Guinea. Its long, pale curved bill is distinctive, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Pacific Townsend's big-eared bat Corynorhinus townsendii

  This bat folds its large ears back over its head while resting. It flies at night and catches moths and other insects.

• Narina Trogon Apaloderma narina

  The Narina Trogon is described across forests south of the Sahara. Southern African accounts include evergreen and riverine forest and note seasonal movement from highland sites to lower ground in winter.

• New Holland Pseudomys Pseudomys novaehollandiae

  This small mouse has pale gray-brown fur and pink feet. Its recorded populations are scattered across grassland and woodland in southeastern Australia.

• Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor

  The Chestnut-breasted Nigrita is a small bird of lowland forest, mangroves, and secondary growth in tropical Africa.

• Gambian Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus gambianus

  This African squirrel has a slender body and round ears. It moves through trees by day and also comes to the ground to feed. Coat colors vary among regional subspecies.

• Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus

  The Pyrrhuloxia lives in dry scrub from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. Its reddish plumage and stout bill are distinctive, and it searches the ground for seeds and cactus fruit.

• Lesser Long-tailed Hamster Cricetulus longicaudatus

  This small hamster lives in dry grasslands and foothills, feeding mainly on seeds and also on insects.

• New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus

  The New Zealand King Shag is a large cormorant restricted to the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It dives for fish living near the sea floor.

• Geoffroy's Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) emarginatus

  A medium-sized bat with rusty to reddish-brown fur on its back, paler fur underneath, and a distinctive notch in the ears.

• Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus maculatus

  This small flowerpecker has a green back, a yellow striped underside, and a bright orange crown patch. It actively visits fruiting and flowering trees.

• Heath Pseudomys Pseudomys shortridgei

  The heath pseudomys is a relatively large native Australian mouse of heath and woodland. Its blunt-looking face and long, hairy two-colored tail are distinctive.

• Sulawesi Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus

  This Sulawesi hornbill has a pale, yellow-stained face in males and black plumage in females. Fruit is its main food.

• Bobak Marmot Marmota (Marmota) bobak

  The Bobak marmot inhabits steppes from central Europe to central Asia and spends winter in underground burrows. Its coat changes with the seasons.

• Pohnpei Fantail Rhipidura kubaryi

  This fantail lives on Pohnpei and nearby larger lagoon islands in Micronesia. It moves through forest while fanning or wagging its white-tipped tail.

• Merriam's Piñon Mouse Peromyscus gratus

  This mouse has brown fur with ochre tones on its back. It ranges from the southwestern United States into interior Mexico, with records in high-elevation pine forest.

• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

  A sandpiper that migrates from northern breeding grounds to Australia. In its Australian non-breeding range it forages in coastal and inland wetlands.

• Sahyadris Forest Rat Rattus satarae

  This rat was found alongside the black rat in high-altitude forest in the Nilgiri Mountains. A 2011 study distinguished a second form, usually with a pure white belly, as Rattus satarae.

• Henderson Reed Warbler Acrocephalus taiti

  The Henderson Reed Warbler is found only on Henderson Island. A field study recorded it foraging in varied places and noted individual variation in patches of white plumage.