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• White-footed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur leucopus

  

  The white-footed sportive lemur has a gray-brown back and pale underside. It rests in tree holes and leaps among branches at night.

• White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos

  

  The black bird has a white wing patch, red eyes and a slightly curved bill. It forms groups in eastern and southeastern Australia and forages on the ground.

• Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus

  

  The southern brown bandicoot is a ground-dwelling marsupial. This entry follows the source’s account of the eastern subspecies.

• White-bellied Fantail Rhipidura euryura

  

  The White-bellied Fantail lives in moist mountain forests on Java. Its gray body has a white belly and a broad white stripe above each eye.

• Masked palm civet Paguma larvata

  

  A climbing civet that lives in forests and near human settlements.

• Western Crested Berrypecker Paramythia olivacea

  

  The PTFI Mimika guide uses the older combined name Paramythia (montium) olivacea. In its 2023 taxonomy, eBird separates Western and Eastern Crested Berrypeckers and places the western species in central New Guinea’s mountains. The guide’s plumage and habitat notes are local to Mimika.

• Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes

  An ape of African forests and landscapes where forest and savanna meet. It climbs using long arms and fingers.

• Madagascar Snipe Gallinago macrodactyla

  The Madagascar Snipe is a snipe of wetlands and rice fields on Madagascar.

• Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata

  The surviving subspecies has native populations in Western Australia and translocated populations elsewhere. Its gray-to-reddish-brown coat and black tail-tip brush are distinctive.

• Purple Roller Coracias naevius

  The Purple Roller scans for prey from high perches in open African savannas.

• Hairy Long-eared Bat Nycteris hispida

  The hairy long-eared bat occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa. Its ears are longer than its head, and the long tail has a T-shaped tip.

• Sahel Paradise Whydah Vidua orientalis

  The Sahel Paradise Whydah lives in African savanna and grassland. It feeds on seeds on the ground; breeding males grow a long tail, and the species lays eggs in Green-winged Pytilia nests.

• Little Pygmy Possum Cercartetus lepidus

  A small marsupial with gray fur and a curled tail. It nests in tree hollows or under grass and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Vanuatu Megapode Megapodius layardi

  The Vanuatu Megapode has bare red skin on its face and yellow legs. It lays eggs in burrows and uses heat from volcanic soil or sun-warmed ground.

• 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.

• Moustached Warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon

  The Moustached Warbler is a small brown bird with a long pale eyebrow stripe. It lives in Mediterranean wetlands.

• Hispaniolan Greater Funnel-eared Bat Natalus major

  This bat has yellowish or grayish fur and pointed-looking ear tips. It roosts in humid caves on Hispaniola and catches insects at night.

• Loria's Satinbird Cnemophilus loriae

  Loria's Satinbird lives in the canopy of montane forest. Males are black while females are olive-toned, and a male's far-carrying whistle can be heard from a perch.

• Lord Derby's Anomalure Anomalurus derbianus

  This squirrel-shaped rodent glides from tree to tree. It is active around dusk and at night in forests of western and central Africa.

• Brubru Nilaus afer

  The Brubru is a bush-shrike found widely across sub-Saharan Africa. A southern African atlas account records it in savanna and acacia woodland, where it feeds in the canopy.

• Simmons' Mouse Lemur Microcebus simmonsi

  A small lemur recorded in eastern lowland rainforest in northeastern Madagascar. Its life in the wild is still not well documented.

• White-crested Laughingthrush Garrulax leucolophus

  The White-crested Laughingthrush is a large babbler with a white crest and black facial mask. Flocks of about 6–12 birds search the forest floor for food.

• Crowned Sifaka Propithecus coronatus

  A lemur of western Madagascar that moves through trees and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• North Island Saddleback Philesturnus rufusater

  The North Island Saddleback is glossy black with a chestnut saddle and rump, a pale line at the saddle’s front, and red wattles at the bill base. It feeds on insects, fruit, and nectar in New Zealand forests.