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Bitterns:

I think I agree with you, because I see it every spring migration, and it has such a lovely pattern. The Black Bittern, from Asia, is a close runner up...

Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, found int he Eastern US, the Caribbean, Central America, and parts of eastern South America

photograph by Greg Lavaty Houston Audubon 

photograph by Hannah Meddaugh

photograph by Tim Peach

photograph by Daniel Limoges

Annulated Gecko (Gonatodes annularis), family Sphaerodactylidae, found in the Guiana Shield of northern South America

Oh yes, thats an easy one!

Curl-crested Araçari (Pteroglossus beauharnaisii) eat a tasty fruit!!!, family Ramphastidae, order Picidae, from West-central South America

photograph by Jim Frazee

Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa), male, family Cracidae, order Galliformes, from northern and NW South America

ENDANGERED.

photograph via: Wattled Curassow - White Oak Conservation (whiteoakwildlife.org)

Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata), male, family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Pantanal, Brazil

photograph by Dr Sunny Kurian

Great Curassows (Crax rubra), (T) female and (B) male, family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Costa Rica

Chattering Lory (Lorius garrulus), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, endemic to North Maluku, Indonesia

Threatened.

Population declines are due to over-collecting for the pet trade.

Well here is the indochinese spotted giant flying squirrel

And here is the zanj sun squirrel

and heres the calabrian black squirrel

and heres the bornean mountain squirrel

And this is taiwanese red and white giant flying squirrel

And here is washington ground squirrel

Northern Luzon Cloud Rat*:

Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus), mother with chicks, family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in California, USA

Was considered a sub-species of the Clapper Rail, but was elevated to species status in 2014.

Found along the western coast of North America, from San Francisco Bay to Baja California

Yellow-tufted Woodpecker (Melanerpes cruentatus), family Picidae, order Piciformes, Amazonas, Brazil