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• Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes

  

  The Greater Hoopoe-Lark is a desert bird with sandy plumage, a long tail, and a down-curved bill. It is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Ash-colored Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys cinereus

  This mouse has soft, dense gray fur and is active on the ground at night. The account notes that the name may cover a species complex.

• Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone

  This hummingbird is about 9.5–10 cm long. Males have a blue head. It feeds on flower nectar and is found at forest edges and in secondary vegetation.

• Large Myotis Myotis (Myotis) chinensis

  Large Myotis is a large mouse-eared bat recorded in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

• Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria

  A large gray warbler that breeds in open country from eastern Europe into Asia, it is a rare visitor to Britain, mainly in autumn.

• 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.

• Ecuadorian Trogon Trogon mesurus

  Oiseaux.net gives the range as Ecuador and northwestern Peru and describes dry forest and lowland tropical forest habitat. It says the bird is usually around 800 m, with records to 2,000 m in southwestern Ecuador.

• Round-tailed Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

  The round-tailed ground squirrel lives on sandy desert flats, dunes, and wash edges. It mainly eats green vegetation, with seeds and insects added seasonally.

• 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.

• Small-toothed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) microdon

  The small-toothed harvest mouse is a small rodent with reddish fur and a long tail. It is among the more arboreal members of its genus and inhabits cool, moist mountain forests.

• Double-banded Plover Charadrius bicinctus

  This small plover occurs on New Zealand's beaches, estuaries and riverbeds. Its chestnut breast band changes with season, and many inland breeders move to the coast after breeding.

• Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus

  A small bat found across Europe and parts of Asia, hunting insects above towns and in natural habitats.

• Malagasy Sacred Ibis Threskiornis bernieri

  This ibis lives in western Madagascar and on Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. Its pale blue-white eye is distinctive, and it probes tidal mud for crustaceans and other prey.

• Burnished Enggano Rat Rattus adustus

  This rat is known from Enggano Island west of Sumatra, but records are extremely limited and little is known about its life.

• Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila

  In breeding plumage, the male has a chestnut head and back and a yellow belly. It breeds in the Russian Far East and northeastern China, then migrates to southern China and Southeast Asia for winter.

• Boehm's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus boehmi

  Boehm's bush squirrel is a small squirrel with orange and dark side stripes. It moves through trees and eats fruit and insects.

• Chestnut Wattle-eye Platysteira castanea

  Males are black and white while females are brownish; the species lives in wet habitats and lowland forest in central and eastern Africa and eats insects.

• Short-tailed Cane Mouse Zygodontomys brevicauda

  The short-tailed cane mouse lives in grass and waterside cover and is active on the ground at night.

• Tibetan Blackbird Turdus maximus

  The Tibetan Blackbird is a high-altitude Himalayan thrush. This entry uses Turdus maximus, while noting that some taxonomic references place it within a broader blackbird grouping. Nepal is one part of its range.

• Long-tailed Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus

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

• Dusky Gerygone Gerygone tenebrosa

  This small bird is found on the northwestern coast of Western Australia. In the Pilbara it is recorded only in mangroves, where it gleans insects from leaves and flowers.

• Cheesman's gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) cheesmani

  This gerbil blends into dry country with its sandy coat. It digs burrows in sand or rocky ground and stores food in them.

• Chestnut-headed Chachalaca Ortalis ruficeps

  This chachalaca occurs south of the Amazon River in Brazil. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of O. motmot, O. m. ruficeps; a 2020 paper presents evidence for species status. It is found mostly in riverine habitats.

• Washington Ground Squirrel Urocitellus washingtoni

  The Washington ground squirrel lives in grasslands from eastern Washington to north-central Oregon. It has short legs and rounded ears, and spends the long winter underground.