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• Sri Lanka Gray Hornbill Ocyceros gingalensis

  

  The Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill is a small hornbill endemic to Sri Lanka, with a grey body and pale underparts.

• Australian Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus

  

  The Australian swamp rat lives in wet grasslands in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It makes runways through vegetation and eats grasses and sedges.

• Yellow-breasted Greenfinch Chloris spinoides

  

  A finch whose male has conspicuous yellow-green plumage. Summer records are reported from southern Gilgit-Baltistan; these do not represent the full range.

• Siberian Whiskered Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) sibiricus

  

  This is a small bat of Asian forests. A 2025 survey recorded it at 730 m and 1,810 m in Katon-Karagay National Park, Kazakhstan.

• White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus

  

  The White-hooded Babbler lives along forest edges and in bamboo in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, moving in noisy groups.

• Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx

  

  The short-nosed fruit bat occurs in Hong Kong woodlands and parks, feeds at night on fruit and nectar, and males make tent-like shelters beneath palm leaves.

• Somali Bunting Emberiza poliopleura

  This bunting is marked by a black-and-white face and yellow breast. It is found in dry savanna and scrub, often in pairs.

• Tufted Gray Langur Semnopithecus priam

  The tufted gray langur lives in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is active by day and often uses trees, while also travelling on the ground.

• Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer

  In Peru's eastern Andes, it forages in scrub, forest edges, and secondary forest. The source identifies the regional form as subspecies rufipes.

• Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fraterculus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in western Ecuador and north-central and western Peru. It is especially abundant in dry forests and arid areas, and it also helps disperse seeds.

• Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus

  This large grey bird lives in open woodland and acacia scrub in eastern Africa. Its face is bare of feathers, and the two subspecies differ in facial and body coloration.

• Slender-horned Gazelle Gazella leptoceros

  The slender-horned gazelle is marked by its pale sandy coat and long, slender horns in both sexes. It lives among the dry dunes of the northern Sahara.

• Black Bustard Afrotis afra

  The Black Bustard is a small bustard of southwestern South Africa that uses low shrubland.

• Woodchuck Marmota (Marmota) monax

  A North American squirrel relative that eats plants near fields and woodland edges and digs an underground burrow.

• Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris

  Males have glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen and a V-shaped tail. Female color varies among islands. Carib Grackles use open places, including residential areas, and eat insects and other invertebrates.

• Korean Red-backed Vole Myodes regulus

  Craseomys regulus occurs south of the Gaema Plateau on the Korean Peninsula. A National Institute of Biological Resources account describes a reddish-brown back, brown sides, and dark-grey underside.

• Gartered Trogon Trogon caligatus

  Gartered Trogons use forest edges, lighter woodland, and clearings with large trees in lowlands and foothills. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are mostly grey above and on the throat and chest; both have orange-yellow lower underparts. They eat insects and fruit.

• Crete Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) minous

  This spiny mouse lives on Crete. It has a gray back, reddish-yellow flanks with fine spines, and uses dry scrub and rocky crevices.

• West African Batis Batis occulta

  The West African Batis uses humid forest and edges, catching small invertebrates from a perch. Plumage and range here are limited to the occulta population in an older broad-species account.

• Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa parvula

  This small bat has yellowish-looking dorsal fur. Records come from Mexico's Pacific coast and the Marías Islands, and roosts include caves and tree hollows.

• Green-and-black Fruiteater Pipreola riefferii

  The Green-and-black Fruiteater eats fruit in the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest. Males in northern Peru show striking green and black plumage.

• Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomops franqueti

  Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is an African fruit bat that eats fruit and flowers. White shoulder patches and the absence of a tail are distinctive.

• Ashy-faced Owl Tyto glaucops

  The Ashy-faced Owl has a gray facial disk and tawny plumage marked with darker spots. It takes small mammals and other prey.

• Moustached Guenon Cercopithecus cephus

  The moustached guenon is a monkey with a blue-white stripe below its nose and bright yellow whiskers. It mainly eats fruit and also takes seeds, leaves, and insects in the forest.