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• House Bunting Emberiza sahari

  

  A bunting of desert towns and their surroundings. A study in central Algeria also recorded pairs nesting in buildings.

• Western Amazonian Oryzomys Hylaeamys perenensis

  The western Amazonian oryzomys occurs in the western Amazon Basin. In one Peruvian reserve, it was captured most often in forest, but that local pattern is not assumed to define the species everywhere.

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea

  A small shorebird with a spoon-shaped bill. It migrates between breeding grounds in Russia and wintering wetlands in South Asia.

• Guayaquil Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) stramineus

  This squirrel lives in forests from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. Its coat has different forms in lowland and highland areas.

• Mountain Tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus

  A rufous crown, white eyebrow, dark eye-stripe, gray face and breast, and yellow belly make this small bird recognizable.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix verticalis

  The Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark uses open, sparsely grassed ground, including sandy and gravel plains. Its black head and neck contrast with large white ear patches.

• Yellow Ground Squirrel Spermophilus fulvus

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

• Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater Merops oreobates

  The Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater occurs in open places in East African highlands and forests. Adults are about 21 cm long and catch insects in flight.

• Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus

  This vole lives in mountain meadows surrounded by pine-oak forest and changes its plant foods with the seasons.

• Eastern Rock Nuthatch Sitta tephronota

  This diurnal nuthatch uses cliffs and rocky gorges and searches tree bark for invertebrates. Where it overlaps with the Western Rock Nuthatch, the black eye-stripe widening behind the eye is a useful clue.

• Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel Dremomys everetti

  This squirrel occurs in the mountains of Borneo. Stomach contents from 26 Mount Trus specimens were mostly insects, with fruit, nuts, leaves, and shoots also recorded. The current Mammal Diversity Database uses Sundasciurus everetti, while ADW retains the older genus.

• Sapphire-spangled Emerald Chionomesa lactea

  This hummingbird has a green body with a shimmering violet-blue throat and breast. In eastern Peru it visits flowers at forest edges and secondary growth, and also catches small insects in flight.

• Western Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) megalotis

  The western harvest mouse is a small rodent of western North America, often recognized by a dark stripe along its back.

• Palawan Flowerpecker Prionochilus plateni

  This small bird occurs on islands in the western Philippines. Males and females differ in color, and throat and breast colors also vary between island subspecies.

• Arizona Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) arizonensis

  This squirrel has a grey back, white underside, and a tail with black and yellow-brown areas. It lives in Arizona canyon forests and eats walnuts and acorns.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Hooper's Deermouse Peromyscus hooperi

  This deer mouse has records from a restricted part of north-central Mexico. It uses grassy foothills and mountain slopes, distinct from nearby desert scrub.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• Northern Gray-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps

  Its coat changes with region and season, and the tail tip is black. From southern Myanmar through Thailand, it uses forests as well as bamboo-rich places and gardens.

• Blue-naped Pitta Hydrornis nipalensis

  A pitta with a reddish-brown head and body and a blue rump, living quietly in forest.

• Watson's Climbing Rat Tylomys watsoni

  Watson's climbing rat has a long, white-tipped tail and large ears. It uses trees at night but is also recorded on the ground around rocks and fallen logs.

• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus

  This forest bird has a grey and green back with vivid orange on the throat and breast.

• 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.