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• Madagascar Bee-eater Merops superciliosus

  

  Despite its English common name, the Madagascar Bee-eater occurs across Africa and Asia. The nominate subspecies found on Madagascar and nearby islands is mainly olive green.

• Galapagos fur seal Arctocephalus galapagoensis

  The Galapagos fur seal is found only on the rocky shores of the Galapagos Islands.

• Wattled Brush-turkey Aepypodius arfakianus

  The Wattled Brush-turkey is a large megapode of New Guinea’s mountain forests. Its reddish-brown body bears a red comb and wattle, and it incubates eggs using heat from a mound of leaves and twigs.

• Golden-crowned Flying Fox Acerodon jubatus

  The golden-crowned flying fox is a large fruit-eating bat found only in the Philippines. A 2026 record documented it in forest in Apayao Province.

• Oriental Cuckooshrike Coracina javensis

  The Oriental Cuckooshrike is a 28 cm cuckooshrike found discontinuously from the Himalayan foothills through parts of southern China and Southeast Asia, and also on Java and Bali.

• Red-necked Pademelon Thylogale thetis

  This short-tailed wallaby is marked by reddish fur on its neck and shoulders. It spends the day in forest and emerges near dusk to feed on plants.

• Green Broadbill Calyptomena viridis

  This vivid green bird feeds on fruit in the lower levels of dense forest. It is resident, though it may move with seasonal fruiting.

• Brown Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus

  The brown mouse lemur is a small mouse lemur found in rainforest and swamp habitats in southeastern Madagascar.

• Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone bourbonnensis

  The Mascarene Paradise Flycatcher is a forest bird found only on Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands. It feeds in the lower canopy and catches insects in flight.

• Kreb's African Fat Mouse Steatomys krebsii

  Krebs's fat mouse is a small, long-tailed rodent with a patchy range in southern Africa. It is described as nocturnal and ground-dwelling, favoring dry sandy places.

• Grey Emutail Amphilais seebohmi

  This bird lives in marshes in eastern Madagascar’s humid forests. It has streaked gray-brown plumage and a long, slender tail, and searches for small insects among grasses.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.

• Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala

  This bunting migrates to Cyprus to breed, using farmland with nearby trees and shrubs, and winters in India.

• 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.

• Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis

  A large shorebird that breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and passes through Japan during migration. It uses its long bill to search for food on tidal flats.

• Southern African hedgehog Atelerix frontalis

  The southern African hedgehog has a white band across its forehead and a range of separated populations in southern Africa.

• Jamaican Tody Todus todus

  The Jamaican Tody is a small island endemic with a green back, red throat, and concealed pink flank tufts. It catches insects below the canopy and excavates nesting burrows.

• Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros turpis

  This leaf-nosed bat occurs on islands of the Yaeyama group. Its noseleaf lacks a central projection, and females raise their young in a separate cave after birth.

• African Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini

  The African Oystercatcher is a black shorebird of southern Africa's coasts, with a bright orange-red bill and pink legs.

• 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.

• Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis

  A dark greenish-blue bird with a red bill and pale patches on its wings in flight.

• Eastern Spotted Skunk Spilogale putorius

  White stripes on the black body break into spots toward the rump. A 2015 survey in South Carolina recorded it at night in mixed and conifer-dominated forests.

• Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri

  Steller's Eider is a small sea duck. Most breed in Arctic Russia, and populations molt or winter in shallow coastal waters of Alaska.

• Pichi Zaedyus pichiy

  A small armadillo of dry southern South America that digs burrows and feeds mainly on insects.