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The Black-headed Woodpecker is a resident Southeast Asian woodpecker in the genus Picus. The male has an entirely black head with a bright yellow patch on the nape, while the body shows olive and greenish tones that contrast with the head pattern. It inhabits forested environments and is suited to b...

The Red-rumped Woodpecker is a small South American woodpecker associated with Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Its bright red rump forms a strong contrast with the barred olive-brown upperparts, providing the field character reflected in its common name. The species is classified in the genus Venilio...

The Orinoco Goose, Neochen jubata, is a South American waterfowl species associated with rivers, oxbow lakes, forest edges, and seasonally flooded habitats. It is a goose-like member of the duck family rather than a true shelduck, and it is known for nesting in tree cavities and other elevated sites...

Vaejovis vorhiesi is a species of scorpion from Arizona. Stahnke described it in 1940, and the species is endemic to the Huachuca Mountains in Cochise County, meaning that its known native range is restricted to that mountain region. It belongs to the genus Vaejovis and is associated with the montan...

Elegant Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis elegans) is a small frog in the family Arthroleptidae, a group known as squeaker frogs. It is associated with terrestrial habitats in East Africa and is notable for direct development: the embryos bypass a free-living aquatic tadpole stage and hatch as miniature f...

The red-bellied gracile opossum, Cryptonanus ignitus, is a small South American marsupial in the family Didelphidae. It was described as a species in 2002 from material associated with Jujuy Province in northwestern Argentina, but the last known record dates to 1962. Because no confirmed specimens h...

Chaerilus variegatus is a species of scorpion in the family Chaerilidae and the genus Chaerilus. Eugene Simon described it in 1877, and the species is associated with Java, Indonesia. It is an extant Asian scorpion known primarily through taxonomic and zoological records, so the name is most relevan...

The buff-footed antechinus (Antechinus mysticus) is a small Australian marsupial in the dasyurid family Dasyuridae. It was described as a species in 2012 from eastern Queensland, where it is associated with forest habitats. The species is distinguished from related antechinuses by its buff-colored f...

The Guianan white-eared opossum, Didelphis imperfecta, is a marsupial of the Guiana Shield in northern South America. It is a member of the genus Didelphis but is distinguished by its restricted geographic distribution. The species was named in 1984 and is described as having the smallest range in i...

The Massif des Maures is a crystalline mountain range in the Var department of southeastern France, extending inland from the Mediterranean coast near the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. Its schistose terrain supports cork oak, chestnut, and evergreen Mediterranean woodland, together with maquis vegetation. T...

Chaerilus truncatus is a species of scorpion in the family Chaerilidae, described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1879. It is recorded from parts of the Himalaya, including northern India and Nepal, and has been revisited in modern taxonomic work because older locality information and earlier identifications...

The Collared Scops-Owl, usually treated as Otus lettia, is a small owl of South and Southeast Asia. It is nocturnal and has prominent ear tufts, a rounded head, and a pale collar or nuchal band that helps distinguish it from related scops-owls. The species occurs in wooded habitats, including forest...

Sutton Heath is a lowland heath and woodland site in Suffolk, England, forming part of the Sutton and Hollesley Site of Special Scientific Interest. Its nutrient-poor sandy soils support heathland, acid grassland, bracken, and mixed woodland, while management uses grazing and selective tree removal...

Babycurus buettneri is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae, described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1886. Records place it in Central and West-Central Africa, including Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo. It is a reddish-brown to dark-br...

Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition is a WWF ecoregion in the United States and Canada where eastern forests meet the grasslands of the interior plains. Its historical vegetation formed a mosaic of oak savanna, woodland, prairie, and wetland habitats shaped by climate, fire, and land use. Less t...

The yellow-throated woodpecker, Piculus flavigula, is a species in the woodpecker family Picidae. It occurs in tropical parts of South America, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, where it inhabits forest environments. The species is id...

The Maroon Woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) is a woodpecker in the family Picidae and a monotypic species. It occurs in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand, where it uses subtropical or tropical moist lowland and montane forests, as well as some planta...

The Banded Woodpecker (Chrysophlegma miniaceum), also called the banded red woodpecker, is a Southeast Asian member of Picidae. Its range extends from southern Myanmar through the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, and it is mainly sedentary in lowland rainforest, secondary forest, mangrove...

The Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) is a West African woodpecker in the family Picidae; some taxonomic authorities place it in Dendropicos. It occurs in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and western Cameroon, primarily in tropical for...

The Knysna Woodpecker (Campethera notata) is a woodpecker endemic to South Africa and a regional endemic of the southern African region. It is recorded in moist lowland forest, moist savanna, shrubland, wooded habitats, and forested gorges, and it is not migratory. BirdLife South Africa lists the re...

The Cuban Green Woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus) is a woodpecker endemic to Cuba and the only species in its genus. It is a small to medium-sized arboreal bird with olive-green upperparts, yellow underparts, and contrasting head markings. It forages on trunks and branches for insects and uses tr...

The leather-colored bird grasshopper is the common name for Schistocerca alutacea, a species in the family Acrididae and subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. It is native to the United States, with records extending from Massachusetts to Arizona and Florida. The species belongs to the bird-grasshopper gen...

The Indian scops-owl (Otus bakkamoena) is a small owl of the family Strigidae native to South Asia. It is generally associated with wooded habitats and is nocturnal, spending daylight hours concealed among branches or foliage. Its cryptic brown plumage helps it blend with tree bark, while its uprigh...

Dusky-throated hermit is the common name for Phaethornis squalidus, a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. The species is endemic to Brazil and is associated with the Atlantic Forest region, including forested areas in the southeastern part of the country; taxonomic sources list Temminck's 1822 au...

Chiromachetes fergusoni is a species of scorpion in the family Hormuridae. It was described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1899 and is recorded from Kerala in southwestern India, with Thiruvananthapuram, also known as Trivandrum, given as its type locality. It is a terrestrial arachnid rather than a ma...

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a protected area in northeastern Ohio between Cleveland and Akron. It preserves the Cuyahoga River valley, forests, waterfalls, wetlands, and sections of the historic Ohio and Erie Canal corridor. The former national recreation area was redesignated as a national par...

Oak-tree Grasshopper (Dendrotettix quercus) is a North American spur-throated grasshopper associated with post oak, described by Packard in 1890.

The agile gracile opossum, Gracilinanus agilis, is a small didelphid marsupial native to South America. It was described by Hermann Burmeister in 1854 and is also known as the agile gracile mouse opossum. The species occurs in tropical savanna and related forest habitats and is relevant to zoologica...

Agricola's gracile opossum is a small didelphid marsupial currently classified as Cryptonanus agricolai, although it was formerly placed in other genera. The species was described by João Moojen in 1943 from Brazil and is distributed across parts of northeastern, central, and southeastern Brazil, in...

The dusky slender opossum, Marmosops fuscatus, is a small marsupial found in montane forests of northern South America. It is described as terrestrial and scansorial, meaning that it can move on the ground and climb in vegetation, and it is nocturnal. The species is extant and belongs to the group o...