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• Meratus White-eye Zosterops meratusensis

  

  Zosterops meratusensis was described from the Meratus Mountains of southeastern Borneo. The paper suggests that its range may be confined to this mountain area.

• Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum

  Its coat ranges from straw-colored to dark gray. It eats fruit and nectar, is active at night, and may form large colonies.

• Black-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes nigrocristatus

  This roughly 13 cm tyrant flycatcher lives at high elevations on the western Andean slope. Peru Aves associates it with Polylepis woodland and adjacent scrub at 2,100–4,000 m in Peru and also records it in Ecuador.

• Annamese Langur Trachypithecus margarita

  The Annamese langur occurs in Indochina. Its coat is generally silvery gray, with black hands and feet; the head hair forms a cap-like hood rather than a central crest. A study of one group on Takou Mountain recorded a diet dominated by young leaves, with fruit also important.

• Black-cheeked Waxbill Estrilda charmosyna

  This small waxbill occurs in dry scrub from Ethiopia to Tanzania. It feeds on grass seeds and other small foods near the ground.

• Lodgepole Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) speciosus

  The lodgepole chipmunk inhabits conifer forests in California, including the Sierra Nevada. It is active by day and gathers food on the ground.

• Pale Flycatcher Bradornis pallidus

  This flycatcher occurs in African savanna and open woodland. It waits on a low perch and catches insects in the air or on the ground. eBird uses the combination Agricola pallidus for the same bird.

• Arctic Lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus

  The Arctic lemming is a small rodent of the Eurasian tundra. Its coat is grayish in summer and white in winter, and it may store foods such as willows.

• Great Jacamar Jacamerops aureus

  The Great Jacamar is notable for glossy green plumage and a rufous belly. In Peruvian Amazonian forests it searches for prey from the middle to upper layers of the forest.

• Southern Big-eared Brown Bat Histiotus magellanicus

  The southern big-eared brown bat is recorded in southern Chile and Argentina. Its appearance is described, while species-specific behavior remains poorly known.

• Eastern Hooded Pitta Pitta novaeguineae

  The Eastern Hooded Pitta occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a current species split from the broader Hooded Pitta group and has a black head and red belly.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Watkins's Antpitta Grallaria watkinsi

  Watkins's Antpitta lives in forests of south-western Ecuador and north-western Peru. It calls in greener, shaded ravines, especially around dawn and dusk.

• Davis's Tent-making Bat Uroderma davisi

  A 2026 study recorded one male at Tolapa in Nicaragua's León Department. The individual had clear facial stripes and was captured in an area the study classed among its lowland dry and arid-forest sites.

• Willard's Sooty Boubou Laniarius willardi

  Willard’s Sooty Boubou was described from a small series of specimens from the western Albertine Rift. The description reports collection localities in Uganda and Burundi, but the few specimens do not establish a complete range.

• Kirk's dik-dik Madoqua kirkii

  A tiny antelope of East and southwestern Africa, living among shrubs and savannah vegetation.

• Sooty-capped Puffbird Bucco noanamae

  Endemic to Colombia, this puffbird has a dark cap, white throat, and broad black breast band. It waits on a perch, then catches insects in the forest understory.

• Chuuk Flying Fox Pteropus pelagicus

  The Chuuk flying fox lives in the Caroline Islands of Micronesia. The study treats the Mortlock population and the populations on Chuuk Lagoon and Namonuito as two subspecies of one species.

• Shovel-billed Kingfisher Clytoceyx rex

  A large kingfisher recorded in montane forest of New Guinea. It digs for invertebrates on the forest floor with its stout bill.

• Purple-faced Langur Semnopithecus vetulus

  The purple-faced langur is an arboreal monkey endemic to Sri Lanka. It has a long tail and dark face, and several subspecies occur on the island.

• Star-spotted Nightjar Caprimulgus stellatus

  The Star-spotted Nightjar is a nocturnal bird of dry grassland and scrub. By day, it rests on the ground among fallen leaves.

• Merriam's Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) merriami

  Merriam’s chipmunk occurs in central and southern California, including chaparral and oak woodland.

• Banded Cotinga Cotinga maculata

  The Banded Cotinga has shimmering blue and purple plumage in males; females are much less conspicuous and brown. Records from Brazil's eastern coast place it high in forest canopies.

• Southern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys torridus

  Its back ranges from gray to cinnamon, while the underside and tail tip are pale. At night it uses burrows in dry grassland and scrub and hunts insects and scorpions.