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• Canary Islands Chiffchaff Phylloscopus canariensis

  

  This small leaf warbler is endemic to the Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to high mountain scrub, as well as farms and gardens, and is usually sedentary.

• Sanborn’s Akodont Abrothrix sanborni

  This small mouse is uniformly blackish brown, including its tail and feet, with little contrast between the upper and lower sides. It has been recorded in coastal rainforests of southern Chile and in Argentina.

• Rusty-fronted Barwing Actinodura egertoni

  Actinodura egertoni lives in montane forest along the Himalayas. It has an orangish wash on the front of the face and a white belly, and forages in pairs or small flocks.

• Niobe Ground Squirrel Lariscus niobe

  The Niobe Ground Squirrel is a day-active squirrel of the mountains of western Sumatra and eastern Java. It uses forests and scrub, and its body length is reported at about 19 cm.

• Australian Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius

  A large cormorant found from Australia's coasts to inland wetlands. It dives for fish and often spreads its wings to dry after fishing.

• Brants's Whistling Rat Parotomys brantsii

  This rodent occurs in southern Africa. It is mainly active around dawn and dusk and uses consolidated sandy ground in sparsely vegetated semidesert. An 1849 description records a pale yellow-brown back finely flecked with dark brown and a pale belly.

• Upland Goose Chloephaga picta

  A goose of Patagonian grasslands: males are white, while females have brown barred plumage, and both graze on plants.

• White-footed Vole Arborimus albipes

  This small vole has white feet and a two-toned tail. It lives in humid coastal forests and eats plants at night both in trees and on the ground.

• Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla

  The Scintillant Hummingbird is a tiny hummingbird of highland scrub and forest edges. During breeding, males defend feeding areas with chases and steep dives.

• Irrawaddy squirrel Callosciurus pygerythrus

  The Irrawaddy squirrel occurs from South Asia into northern Southeast Asia and is found in places with both forest and agriculture.

• Dark-winged Miner Geositta saxicolina

  A ground-foraging bird restricted to a part of central Peru at 4,000–4,900 m. In flight, a dark band shows across its pale tail.

• Small Japanese Field Mouse Apodemus argenteus

  The Small Japanese Field Mouse uses its long tail to move along branches and stores acorns in the soil in autumn for later food.

• Gilbert's Whistler Pachycephala inornata

  This whistler is sparsely distributed through arid and semi-arid inland southern Australia. Males have a black patch between the red eye and bill, while females are more uniformly brown.

• Bank Vole Myodes glareolus

  A small vole recorded from Europe to Central Asia. It uses forests, scrub, and hedgerows.

• Swainson's Francolin Pternistis swainsonii

  Swainson's Francolin is a southern African bird that uses grasslands, woodland edges, farmland, and watersides. It searches on the ground for seeds and insects.

• Bangs's Mountain Squirrel Syntheosciurus brochus

  Bangs's mountain squirrel is a tree squirrel reported from the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama. A study in Costa Rica observed it feeding on flowers, sap, and bromeliads.

• Ethiopian Oriole Oriolus monacha

  It occurs in the western and southeastern Ethiopian highlands, the Rift Valley, and southern Ethiopia, at about 1,200–3,200 m.

• 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.

• Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes

  This migrant breeds in Siberia and moves south, probing mud and rocks for food at estuaries and tidal flats.

• Mexican Volcano Mouse Neotomodon alstoni

  The Mexican volcano mouse lives in the highlands of Mexico's Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It walks on the ground and also uses burrows in pine-oak forest.

• White-browed Nuthatch Sitta victoriae

  A small nuthatch marked by a white eyebrow and chestnut flanks, known from highlands around Mount Victoria in Myanmar.

• Small Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus punctatus

  This squirrel has dark, soft fur and a long ringed tail. In West Africa, it is recorded in rainforest and forests within forest–savanna mosaics.

• Gouldian finch Erythrura gouldiae

  A small bird with a green back, purple breast and yellow belly.

• Great Gerbil Rhombomys opimus

  A large gerbil that burrows in dry parts of Central Asia, feeds on plants, and stores food in its burrows.