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• Grey-lored Broadbill Serilophus rubropygius

  

  This bird occurs in parts of northeastern India and nearby countries. The 2023 eBird taxonomy update distinguishes it from the Silver-breasted Broadbill by its gray lores and rounded wing tips with only tiny white tips.

• Buffy Saki Pithecia albicans

  

  The buffy saki occurs in Amazonas State in northern Brazil. It eats many fruits and can obtain seeds from fruits with hard coverings.

• Lilac-breasted roller Coracias caudatus

  

  A colourful bird of African savannas and open woodland, often seen surveying its surroundings from high branches.

• Shamel's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus shameli

  

  This medium-sized horseshoe bat occurs in mainland Southeast Asia. Its coat varies in color, and records from Thailand and Cambodia include several forest types.

• Yellow-bellied Longbill Toxorhamphus novaeguineae

  

  This bird is recognized by its long, down-curved bill and yellow belly. It lives in forests on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Tehuantepec Jackrabbit Lepus flavigularis

  

  The Tehuantepec jackrabbit is a hare with a restricted range around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

  A small triller of open woodland and lowland forest in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

• East Asian Tailless Leaf-nosed Bat Coelops frithii

  This bat ranges across South and Southeast Asia. A 2026 checklist added three female records from lowland mixed forest in southern Vietnam.

• Chimango Caracara Milvago chimango

  Argentina's biodiversity record describes a brown caracara marked by a white patch at the wing tips. It feeds mainly on carrion and searches for food in open places and along roads.

• Gervais's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) cinereus

  It has a dark noseleaf and pale cream ear margins. It was also captured in Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil.

• White-headed Starling Sturnia erythropygia

  This starling is endemic to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It uses forest edges and open places, where it feeds on fruit and other foods.

• Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus

  Large ears and a black-tipped tail help identify this deer.

• Yellow-winged Vireo Vireo carmioli

  The Yellow-winged Vireo has yellow bars on its black wings. In mountain forest of Costa Rica and western Panama, it feeds on insects, spiders, and berries.

• Bicolored Shrew Crocidura leucodon

  The bicolored shrew has a dark back and a pale underside. It hunts small animals in dry grasslands, woods and roadside brush.

• Thrush-like Antpitta Myrmothera campanisona

  This ground antbird lives near the forest floor. In eastern Ecuador, adults were observed incubating two eggs in a nest built low among grasses.

• Northern Ghost Bat Diclidurus (Diclidurus) albus

  The northern ghost bat has white fur and pale pink wing membranes. It feeds on flying insects at night and ranges from Mexico into northeastern South America.

• Black-banded Barbet Psilopogon javensis

  This barbet occurs in forests on Java and Bali. Its green body has yellow, red, and black markings; a short survey in East Java recorded it in a more open part of the canopy.

• Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Heteromys irroratus

  The Mexican spiny pocket mouse is currently placed in Heteromys. It has coarse grey-brown fur and cheek pouches, and searches for seeds at night, carrying them to burrows.

• Masked Gnatcatcher Polioptila dumicola

  The Masked Gnatcatcher searches woodland and scrub for small insects. Males have a black facial mask; females have a white eye-ring and cheeks.

• Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) murina

  Linnaeus’s Mouse Opossum is a nocturnal marsupial with large dark eyes and a prehensile tail. It occurs in northern South America, prefers insects and also eats fruit.

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• Miller's Langur Presbytis canicrus

  Presbytis canicrus is a langur of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. A field report identified it by its dark head, white forehead, and gray back, and recorded an individual active in a karst-forest tree while eating fruit.

• Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrochalybeia

  The Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher is found only on São Tomé. It uses forest understory and midstory, including shaded lowland cocoa plantations, and has been recorded catching insects over rivers.

• Dusky Pademelon Thylogale brunii

  This is a small member of the kangaroo family, with large ears, strong hind legs, and a short, thick tail. It is mainly active at night and eats plants such as grasses and young shoots.