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• Paramo Pipit Anthus bogotensis

  

  The Paramo Pipit searches for food on the ground in high grasslands. The Bolivia account reports subspecies that differ in the color of the underside and in their flank markings.

• Cape Scrub Hare Lepus saxatilis

  The Cape Scrub Hare has mottled grey and black fur above and white fur below. It forages at night in scrub and eats grasses and other plant parts.

• Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes

  The black-footed albatross ranges across the North Pacific and takes squid and fish near the sea surface.

• Cape Pangolin Smutsia temminckii

  A ground-dwelling pangolin of savannas and open woodland.

• Kea Nestor notabilis

  The Kea is a parrot of the mountains of New Zealand’s South Island. It has olive-green feathers edged in black and orange-red underwings. It eats both plants and animals, and the elevations it uses vary by season.

• Chestnut Sac-winged Bat Cormura brevirostris

  This small bat lives in humid forests of Central and South America and has been recorded roosting in tree hollows.

• Little Yellow Flycatcher Erythrocercus holochlorus

  This small bird lives in coastal East African woodland, moving through the trees and often feeding in mixed-species flocks.

• Ma's Night Monkey Aotus nancymai

  This nocturnal monkey occurs in seasonally flooded lowland forest in northeastern Peru. At night it searches the trees for fruit, flowers, nectar, and insects. The Mammal Diversity Database accepts Aotus nancymai, while the ADW species account uses A. nancymaae.

• White-thighed Swallow Atticora tibialis

  The White-thighed Swallow flies near the canopy above humid Amazonian forest. The appearance and range described here are those documented for subspecies griseiventris.

• Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens

  The rufous bettong is a marsupial with reddish-brown fur and a furred muzzle. It rests in a grass-built nest by day and looks for food at night.

• Green-tailed Warbler Microligea palustris

  The Green-tailed Warbler is a small bird found only on Hispaniola. It has a gray head and body, olive-green back and wings, and mainly eats insects.

• Golden Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus rosalia

  The golden lion tamarin is a small monkey recognized by its golden mane framing the face. It searches for fruit and insects in the humid forests of southeastern Brazil.

• St. Lucia Thrasher Ramphocinclus sanctaeluciae

  The St. Lucia Thrasher occurs only on Saint Lucia. It searches for food among leaf litter in lowland and coastal dry forest.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

  The desert hedgehog is a hedgehog of dry country, including northwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Olive-backed Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis

  The Olive-backed Sunbird is a small bird that uses its slender, curved bill to feed from flowers. In Queensland it also occurs in gardens and along forest edges, and males and females differ in throat color.

• Malenge Babirusa Babyrousa togeanensis

  The Malenge babirusa is a pig relative from Indonesia’s Togian Islands. It has sparse, short body hair, a tufted tail, and forward-pointing upper tusks in males.

• Crested Satinbird Cnemophilus macgregorii

  The Crested Satinbird lives in high mountain forest. Male plumage varies by region, while females are mainly olive green.

• Pel's Anomalure Anomalurus pelii

  Pel's anomalure is a gliding squirrel with scaly structures on its tail. It occurs in high forest in West Africa.

• Common Loon Gavia immer

  A large waterbird that chases fish underwater and changes its plumage noticeably between summer and winter.

• Narrow-ridged finless porpoise Neophocaena asiaeorientalis

  A small porpoise without a dorsal fin, found along parts of the Japanese coast.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Shipton's Mountain Cavy Microcavia shiptoni

  Shipton's mountain cavy is a small rodent of the highlands of northwestern Argentina. It lives among grassland, scrub, and rocky slopes, using both the surface and shallow burrows.

• Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

  The male Orange-bellied Leafbird has a green body, orange underparts and a purplish-blue throat. It feeds on insects and fruit in forest from the Himalaya toward Assam.

• Andean Porcupine Coendou quichua

  This porcupine has a generally brown-looking back with pale quill tips giving it a frosted appearance. In Ecuador, its records are mainly from Andean forests at high elevations.