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• Carp's Tit Melaniparus carpi

  

  This tit inhabits dry woodland and savanna from southwestern Angola through western and central Namibia. It searches among mopane and acacia trees and shrubs for small invertebrates.

• Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus avunculus

  Adult Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are known for their upturned noses and bluish facial skin. The species is recorded in limestone forests of northern Vietnam and eats leaves and unripe fruit.

• White-throated Tinamou Tinamus guttatus

  The White-throated Tinamou lives in forests. Its mainly brown plumage has small white spots, and its pale throat stands out.

• Bornean Spotted-winged Fruit Bat Balionycteris maculata

  This small fruit bat has yellow spots on its wings. It lives in forests in Thailand, Malaysia, and Borneo and is usually active at night.

• Brown-breasted Gerygone Gerygone ruficollis

  A small warbler of New Guinea's montane forests. Its very high whistle descends slightly before leveling off.

• Arabian Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius

  This jird occurs on the Arabian Peninsula. Genetic work leaves some Arabian identifications uncertain.

• Black Flowerpiercer Diglossa humeralis

  This flowerpiercer inhabits the high Andes from Venezuela to Peru and has a distinctive upturned, hooked bill.

• Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus

  The grey long-eared bat has very long ears and catches moths and other prey in flight over open grassland.

• Scarlet-breasted Fruiteater Pipreola frontalis

  This fruiteater occurs in two separated parts of the eastern Andes. Males have red on the throat and breast, while females have green upperparts and scaled underparts; birds forage in humid montane forest.

• Brock's Yellow-eared Bat Vampyriscus brocki

  This small bat lives in South American rainforests east of the Andes. It eats fruit and prefers primary and riverine forests.

• Versicolored Barbet Eubucco versicolor

  A barbet of montane forest on the eastern Andes. Its facial and chest colors vary between sexes and among subspecies.

• Japanese serow Capricornis crispus

  The Japanese serow is a cattle relative from Japan’s mountain forests. Both sexes hold territories and live alone.

• Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus

  An unusual gull that catches small fish and squid over the sea at night. Breeding adults show a red eye-ring, and head color changes outside the breeding plumage.

• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii

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

• Long-tailed Ground Squirrel Urocitellus undulatus

  The long-tailed ground squirrel is a medium-sized, ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asia. A Mongolian study found several genetically distinct regional groups.

• Malayan Banded Pitta Hydrornis irena

  This pitta occurs in peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra in Indonesia. BirdLife records it in lowland swamp and evergreen forests.

• L'Hoest's Monkey Allochrocebus lhoesti

  L'Hoest's monkey is recognizable by its dark coat and white beard. It spends more time on the ground than many monkeys.

• Slaty-bellied Tesia Tesia olivea

  This small bird inhabits the undergrowth of humid forest. A study reports different crown gloss in the nominate population from northeastern India and Myanmar and the subspecies from northern Thailand and Vietnam.

• Golden-crowned Flying Fox Acerodon jubatus

  The golden-crowned flying fox is a large fruit-eating bat found only in the Philippines. A 2026 record documented it in forest in Apayao Province.

• Bar-winged Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides

  A small babbler of the eastern Himalaya and nearby mountains. It moves through bamboo and ferns in the forest understory while looking for small invertebrates.

• Western Mediterranean Mouse Mus (Mus) spretus

  The western Mediterranean mouse is a wild mouse of the western Mediterranean. It was once treated as a subspecies of the house mouse but is now recognized separately.

• White-cheeked Turaco Menelikornis leucotis

  The White-cheeked Turaco is a green turaco centered in the Ethiopian Highlands. Its rounded crest, white cheek patch, and crescent-shaped white neck mark are distinctive.

• Nepalese Whiskered Myotis Myotis (Myotis) muricola

  This small bat is known from several parts of South and Southeast Asia. Genetic and morphological studies report substantial differences among regional populations and raise the possibility of a species complex.