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• Red-faced Crombec Sylvietta whytii

  

  The Red-faced Crombec is a small bird with a very short tail. In Zimbabwean miombo woodland, it moves quickly among branches and leaves while searching for insects.

• Francis's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus francisi

  Francis's horseshoe bat is a rarely recorded species known from Sabah and Kalimantan on Borneo. The 2015 paper listed six records available at that time.

• 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.

• Ceram Flying Fox Pteropus ocularis

  The Ceram flying fox is known from only a small number of recorded individuals in the Moluccas. A 2015 study reported a new record from western Seram.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• Tolai hare Lepus tolai

  The tolai hare is a small hare with long ears and legs; it feeds on grasses and shrubs.

• Vogelkop Bowerbird Amblyornis inornata

  The Vogelkop Bowerbird lives in the mountains of western New Guinea, where males build decorated structures.

• Brazilian Long-nosed Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

  This small bat has an elongated muzzle and pale stripes on its back. It roosts in lines on tree trunks and roots near water, then flies out at night to eat insects.

• Christmas White-eye Zosterops natalis

  The Christmas White-eye is a small bird with olive and grey plumage and a white ring around the eye. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects, and nests in the wet season.

• Eastern Black-handed Tamarin Saguinus ursula

  This small monkey occurs east of the Tocantins River in Brazil. The EAZA guide notes forest patches toward the Cerrado and Caatinga transition.

• Southern Bentbill Oncostoma olivaceum

  This small flycatcher has yellowish-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It occurs along lowland forest edges and in secondary forest in eastern Panama and northern Colombia.

• Brandt's Hedgehog Paraechinus hypomelas

  Brandt's hedgehog lives in dry regions. One female found in Saudi Arabia in 2024 was described as having a dark face and large ears.

• Western Quail-thrush Cinclosoma marginatum

  The Western Quail-thrush lives on stony hills and low acacia ridges in western Australia, walking on the ground to forage. Males and females differ in breast pattern.

• Southern Mountain Cavy Microcavia australis

  This rodent has a compact body and a pale ring around each eye. It is active by day and feeds on leaves beneath thornbushes.

• Black-billed Wood Hoopoe Phoeniculus somaliensis

  This bird has glossy, blackish plumage and searches tree bark for arthropods. It occurs in eastern Africa in woodland, bushland and tree-lined places near water.

• Pale fox Vulpes pallida

  An African fox with sandy upper fur and a bushy, black-tipped tail.

• Lavender Waxbill Estrilda caerulescens

  The Lavender Waxbill is a small finch native to West Africa. It has also been introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Cornell's current page uses the genus Glaucestrilda; this entry retains the pool's name.

• Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur Allocebus trichotis

  The hairy-eared dwarf lemur is a nocturnal small lemur recorded in northeastern Madagascar. Tufts on its ears and a leaf nest in a tree hollow are distinctive features.

• Sumba Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa segregata

  This flycatcher occurs on Sumba, Indonesia. In a comparison of 12 specimens, the breast was brown with slight streaking, while the vent was nearly white and showed almost no pattern. A 1995 record noted four birds in primary-forest understory.

• Monjon Petrogale burbidgei

  A small wallaby of rocky areas in northwestern Australia, with mottled fur and a reddish patch around the eye.

• Purplish Jacamar Galbula chalcothorax

  This jacamar lives in forests of western Amazonia. It has a blackish-green crown and head sides, with reddish upperparts and tail.

• Pig-tailed Langur Simias concolor

  The pig-tailed langur lives in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands. A study of wild groups on Siberut found that adult males were larger on average than females and that the three groups studied averaged about nine animals.

• Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis

  A pitta with blue plumage and a black bill. It breeds in southern China and Southeast Asia and appears in Singapore during migration and winter.

• Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon plicatus

  The 2018 study describes a relatively narrow wing shape in bats reported as Chaerephon plicatus. In a 2018 study of two central Thailand roost caves, brown planthoppers were common in droppings during rice growing; other insects appeared during the fallow period.