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• Agile Mangabey Cercocebus agilis

  

  The agile mangabey lives in forests of central Africa, mostly north of the Congo River. Its back is darker gray-brown and its underside is lighter. It favors the forest understory and often uses the ground while feeding or travelling.

• Lesser Jacana Microparra capensis

  

  The Lesser Jacana is a small jacana of shallow freshwater wetlands with grasses and sedges. It may move as water levels change.

• Brown Greater Galago Otolemur crassicaudatus

  

  A primate with large eyes and ears and a long tail. It is active at night and eats gum, fruit, seeds, insects, and other foods.

• Vampire Ground Finch Geospiza septentrionalis

  

  This small ground finch lives on Darwin and Wolf Islands in the northwestern Galápagos. It is known for pecking at the bases of seabirds' feathers and drinking blood.

• Max's Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys maxi

  

  This small erinaceid is recorded in forests on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. It is reported more often in hill and montane forest.

• White-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala vitiensis

  

  This entry covers the White-throated Fiji Whistler, the white-throated species split from the former broad Fiji Whistler in Clements 2024. It is 16–19 cm long and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• White-lipped Peccary Tayassu pecari

  The white-lipped peccary looks like a pig but belongs to a different family. It searches for food in groups.

• Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus

  This small nighthawk flies by night over open grassland and catches airborne invertebrates. A breeding record in Misiones, Argentina, also describes one female and a nest on the ground.

• Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei

  A hyrax found in sub-Saharan Africa. It lives in rocky savannas and bush steppe and is active by day.

• Black Guineafowl Agelastes niger

  The Black Guineafowl is a ground-dwelling bird of forests in western and central Africa. It has black plumage and a bare red head, and occurs in small groups.

• Ursine Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus ursinus

  This tree-kangaroo has a black back and a white tail tip. It lives in West Papua’s montane rainforest, but its wild diet is poorly known.

• Magellanic Tapaculo Scytalopus magellanicus

  This small tapaculo lives year-round in the Andean-Patagonian forest of northwestern Patagonia. It uses humid forest, forest transitions, and dense marsh vegetation.

• Southern giraffe Giraffa giraffa

  The southern giraffe occurs in southern Africa and includes the Angolan and South African subspecies.

• Hodgson's Treecreeper Certhia hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Treecreeper is a small bird of mountain regions from Pakistan east to China. It has a brown back and pale underside, and searches tree bark for insects and spiders.

• Greater Mouse-tailed Bat Rhinopoma microphyllum

  This bat has a long tail that extends beyond the tail membrane, and its fur ranges from gray to reddish brown. It eats insects and roosts in caves and old buildings in dry regions.

• Bay Owl Phodilus badius

  The Bay Owl is a nocturnal owl with a heart-shaped facial disc and chestnut plumage. It hunts small animals from a perch in forest.

• Masoala Woolly Lemur Avahi mooreorum

  The Masoala woolly lemur is a nocturnal lemur known from northeastern Madagascar. Its mottled back and reddish-brown tail are distinctive.

• Australian Logrunner Orthonyx temminckii

  Adult Australian Logrunners differ in throat color by sex. On the floor of moist eastern Australian forests, they use their stiff tails for support while scratching through leaf litter for food.

• Kultarr Antechinomys laniger

  The kultarr is a nocturnal marsupial of Australia's arid and semi-arid regions. It bounds on long hind feet and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata

  A small diver with grey-brown plumage and a slightly upturned bill. The throat becomes red in summer breeding plumage.

• Golden-rumped Elephant Shrew Rhynchocyon chrysopygus

  The golden-rumped elephant shrew searches the ground for small prey with its long snout and lives along Kenya’s coast.

• Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus

  The Yellow-billed Oxpecker occurs in savannas with large mammals. In the southern African accounts, hosts bearing ticks are described as essential to its presence.

• Southern River Otter Lontra provocax

  A South American otter found in southern Chile and parts of Argentina.

• Sumba Myzomela Myzomela dammermani

  The Sumba Myzomela is a small bird of Sumba Island, Indonesia, where it forages from the forest mid-storey to the canopy.