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• Eastern Long-billed Lark Certhilauda semitorquata

  

  This lark inhabits grasslands in eastern South Africa, Lesotho, and western Eswatini. It searches the ground for arthropods, seeds, and corms. This entry follows the species split from the Long-billed Lark complex.

• Moluccan Cuscus Phalanger ornatus

  The Moluccan cuscus is a marsupial from the Moluccan Islands. Its short, woolly coat can have white spots, and a field study also recorded the species on Obi Island.

• Comb-crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacea

  This waterbird walks on floating plants with its long legs and exceptionally long toes. Its red forehead comb and black, white, and olive-brown pattern are also distinctive.

• Dorcas gazelle Gazella dorcas

  A gazelle of deserts and dry grassland that feeds on a variety of plants.

• Aldabra Fody Foudia aldabrana

  This small bird lives on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. Males have a bright red head, neck, and breast, sharply set off from a sulphur-yellow belly. Skerrett’s 1999 article also discusses the older name F. eminentissima aldabrana; this entry follows the pool name F. aldabrana.

• Troughton's Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) troughtoni

  This bat is recorded in open woodland and spinifex hills in northern Australia. Its fur is olive-brown with pale gray guard hairs.

• Pacific Screech-Owl Megascops cooperi

  The Pacific Screech-Owl is a medium-sized owl of the Pacific Slope lowland edge. Short ear tufts, yellow eyes, and pale gray plumage help identify it.

• Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus

  A North American fox that can climb trees.

• Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles affinis

  It lives in lower montane forest on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of western New Guinea, with brownish plumage and a pale collar.

• Chacoan Mara Pediolagus salinicola

  A large rodent of the Chaco, it occurs in Paraguay, southern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, in dry scrub and woodland.

• Tatama Tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi

  This tapaculo lives in cloud forest in Colombia's western Andes. The original description covers male plumage, and an observation recorded two birds searching for arthropods while walking through leaf litter.

• Meadow Vole Microtus (Mynomes) pennsylvanicus

  The meadow vole occurs widely in North American grasslands and wetlands and favors places where grass remains.

• Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius

  Male Varied Thrushes have striking blue-gray and orange markings, while females and young birds are browner. The species breeds in Pacific Coast forests and changes its diet with the seasons.

• Emilio's Tuco-tuco Ctenomys emilianus

  Emilio's tuco-tuco is a subterranean rodent known from dune areas in Neuquén, Argentina. Its pale fawn back contrasts with whitish sides and belly.

• Mangrove Vireo Vireo pallens

  This vireo occurs in coastal parts of Mexico and Central America and on Providencia Island, Colombia. It searches leaves and branches for small invertebrates in mangroves and scrub.

• Gray African Climbing Mouse Dendromus melanotis

  Its gray coat has a dark stripe down the back, and its long tail helps it climb grass stems. It is active at night, builds grass nests, and eats seeds and insects.

• Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae

  This antshrike ranges along the eastern Andes from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia. It lives at montane-forest edges and in tall secondary growth.

• Daurian Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) dauurica

  The Daurian Pika is a small herbivore with short legs and rounded ears. It digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert habitats and feeds on vegetation.

• White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis

  A 1994 field-identification paper reports occurrence west to Sierra Leone in Upper Guinea, with an apparently isolated population in southern Senegal. It is encountered more often in gallery forest.

• Black-and-gold howler monkey Alouatta caraya

  A howler monkey of central South American forests. It grips branches with its long tail and mainly eats leaves.

• Crested Tit-warbler Leptopoecile elegans

  This bird is about 10 cm long. By day in the Himalayas, it searches for small invertebrates among conifers, dwarf juniper scrub, and birches at high elevations.

• Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat Otomops wroughtoni

  Wroughton’s free-tailed bat is poorly recorded in South and Southeast Asia. It is considered an open-space, high-flying forager, and a 2025 study recorded its calls in western India.

• Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus thura

  The Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch uses scrubby and semi-open habitats around the Himalaya. Males are lilac-pink, while females are brown and streaked, so the sexes look different.

• Big-eared Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrotis

  The big-eared horseshoe bat is a small horseshoe bat with relatively large ears. In a summer study in southwestern China, most detected insect food belonged to Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies.