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• Geoffroy's Rousette Rousettus amplexicaudatus

  

  Geoffroy's rousette is a fruit-eating bat that roosts in large groups in limestone caves. It moves as fruits ripen.

• Least Storm Petrel Hydrobates microsoma

  

  About sparrow-sized, this seabird is entirely black with a short wedge-shaped tail. It flutters low over the sea to pick food from the surface and nests in colonies on rocky islands off western Mexico.

• Herb Field Mouse Apodemus uralensis

  

  The herb field mouse is a small mouse recorded from central and eastern Europe east through Russia to western China. Its back is dark brown and its underside is whitish gray.

• Garden Warbler Sylvia borin

  

  The Garden Warbler breeds in Europe and migrates south of the Sahara for winter. Its upperparts are brown and its underside is pale.

• Germain's Langur Trachypithecus germaini

  

  This langur has a silvery gray coat, a black face, and a crown-like crest. A study in Vietnam's karst region found that leaves were its main food.

• Wrentit Chamaea fasciata

  

  The Wrentit is a small bird of the shrubs along the western coast of the United States. It has a gray-brown body and a long tail, and searches dense brush for insects and fruit.

• Luis's Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira luisi

  Luis's Yellow-shouldered Bat may have yellow, orange, or red patches on its shoulders. It is nocturnal and is expected to feed mainly on fruit.

• White-eared Puffbird Nystalus chacuru

  The White-eared Puffbird occurs in forest and woodland clearings and dry savanna in South America. It has a brown back and crown, a black-and-white-speckled breast, a black-edged white ear patch, and a red hooked bill with a black tip. It eats insects and other invertebrates.

• Northern Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Prasadsciurus) pennantii

  A South Asian squirrel that searches for food both in trees and on the ground.

• Madagascar Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus

  The Madagascar Blue Vanga lives in forests on Madagascar. Males have a blue head and back, a black stripe through the eye, and white throat and underparts. Females are duller. It searches among leaves for insects and sometimes eats berries.

• Gobi Altai Mountain Vole Alticola (Alticola) barakshin

  The Gobi Altai mountain vole has a brownish-gray back with a rusty tone and a pale belly. It occurs in mountain regions of southern Mongolia and nearby areas.

• Rufous-tailed Lark Ammomanes phoenicura

  The Rufous-tailed Lark is a lark whose earth-toned plumage blends into dry, open ground. It walks on the ground while searching for seeds and insects.

• Common Asiatic Myotis Myotis (Myotis) horsfieldii

  Horsfield's Myotis has brown fur that is lighter underneath and long ears with rounded tips. It roosts in caves, abandoned tunnels, and buildings.

• Ferruginous Babbler Pellorneum bicolor

  The Ferruginous Babbler has rich rufous-brown plumage that blends into the forest floor. It searches for insects low in the understory of lowland and swamp forest.

• Bhutan Takin Budorcas whitei

  This is the Bhutan form of takin. Large adult males in Bhutan have been reported to appear slightly brighter orange than darker females.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Sulawesi Rousette Rousettus celebensis

  A fruit-eating bat recorded on Sulawesi. A 2021 phylogenetic study proposed placing the species formerly called Rousettus celebensis in Pilonycteris; a 2025 field study also used Pilonycteris celebensis.

• Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes

  The black-footed albatross ranges across the North Pacific and takes squid and fish near the sea surface.

• African Arvicanthis Arvicanthis niloticus

  This rat is recorded along the Nile in Egypt. Groups use shared burrows and keep grassy runways clear around them.

• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• West Javan Langur Trachypithecus mauritius

  A monkey restricted to forests of western Java. It eats leaves and shoots and spends much of the day resting.

• Black-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochos tarnii

  This huet-huet walks on the forest floor and searches through leaf litter for food. It lives in Andean-Patagonian forests in southern South America.

• Northern Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira parvidens

  This small fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to northern Costa Rica. It roosts in mature forest and is also often recorded in disturbed areas where pioneer plants grow.

• Nicobar Megapode Megapodius nicobariensis

  The Nicobar Megapode is a ground-dwelling bird of the Nicobar Islands. It makes large mounds of leaves and sand, using the heat of decomposition to incubate its eggs.