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• Streaked Barwing Actinodura souliei

  

  This barwing occurs in parts of China and Vietnam. Its crest is pointed, and the crown and ear-coverts are silver-gray and streaked. Markings and tail pattern differ between subspecies.

• Dwarf Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys velutinus

  The velvety fat-tailed opossum has been recorded in Brazil’s Cerrado and has a tail whose thickness changes seasonally.

• Crimson-collared Grosbeak Rhodothraupis celaeno

  This thick-billed grosbeak is red and black in adult males and yellow-olive in females. It often stays low in dense cover in northeastern Mexico, where it can be difficult to see.

• Southern Woolly Lemur Avahi meridionalis

  The southern woolly lemur is nocturnal. Researchers studied its leaf-eating behavior in the lowland rainforest of Tsitongambarika in southeastern Madagascar. During the season with more young leaves, feeding time and daily travel distance increased.

• Ameline Swiftlet Aerodramus amelis

  The Ameline Swiftlet occurs on Philippine islands and Balambangan Island off northern Borneo. It flies over forests and open habitats.

• Southern Right Whale Dolphin Lissodelphis peronii

  A slender dolphin without a dorsal fin, it has a black back and white underside and may travel in large groups in cool southern offshore waters.

• Yellow Tit Machlolophus holsti

  The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan’s mountains and uses the canopy of primary broadleaf forest. Males are strikingly black and yellow, while females and juveniles differ in color and crest shape.

• Brown Capuchin Cebus brunneus

  It has a long, thick coat, a pale yellowish-grey face and a V-shaped crown patch. It lives in forests in northern Venezuela.

• Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Vulture is a large scavenging vulture. A 2023–2025 survey recorded 20 nests at 12 sites in Upper Assam, India.

• Etruscan Shrew Suncus etruscus

  The Etruscan shrew is a very small shrew that is also found in the Mediterranean region of mainland Portugal.

• White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra

  Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.

• Little Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus

  The little ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel of flat steppes and semi-deserts, ranging from the lower Dnieper to Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan.

• Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza

  This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.

• Southern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur meridionalis

  This small lemur was observed eating ground-level grasses in the bamboo-poor littoral forest of Mandena.

• Yellow-legged Flyrobin Microeca griseoceps

  The Yellow-legged Flyrobin is recorded in New Guinea’s mid-montane rainforest and on Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. The Birds Queensland account uses the name Kempiella griseoceps, while the pool lists Microeca griseoceps.

• Greater Egyptian jerboa Jaculus orientalis

  This North African jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night and spends the day in burrows dug in sand or clay.

• Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis

  The Blue-throated Roller is a West and Central African roller that catches flying insects on the wing. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a reddish-brown back and a pale blue throat.

• Guenther's Vole Microtus (Microtus) guentheri

  Günther’s vole is distributed from Turkey through the Levant. It is recorded in meadows and on hill slopes with sparse vegetation.

• White-tailed Crested Flycatcher Elminia albonotata

  Its gray body contrasts with a black crest and wings and white on the belly and underside of the long tail. In eastern African montane evergreen forest and nearby scrub or bamboo, it feeds on flies, ants, and other small invertebrates.

• Ecuador Red Brocket Mazama rufina

  This small deer lives in the Andes. Its reddish-brown body contrasts with a black head and legs.

• Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis

  The Little Shearwater is a small seabird that breeds on islands. It takes food at the surface and also dives for fish, crustaceans, and other prey.

• Fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus

  A waterside cat of South and Southeast Asia, with a stocky body, short tail and dark spots and lines on grey-brown fur.

• Wing-snapping Cisticola Cisticola ayresii

  This small cisticola has fine streaks on its head and back. It forages in short grassland; males sing in high flight and sometimes dive with wing-snapping sounds.

• Northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

  A seal of the eastern and central North Pacific. It dives to feed and comes ashore to breed and molt.