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• Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana

  

  The Buff-crested Bustard lives in dry scrub and open woodland. Males have a reddish buff crest and a black throat stripe.

• Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto

  The black flying-fox is a large fruit bat found in northern and eastern Australia. Its Japanese name also appears in the Japanese Mammalogical Society’s standard mammal-name list.

• Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis

  A dark green wader whose plumage can shimmer emerald and bronze in good light. It occurs in lowlands from Central America to northern and eastern South America.

• Common eland Taurotragus oryx

  A large antelope that lives in grassland and open woodland.

• Black-billed Koel Eudynamys melanorhynchus

  This cuckoo occurs on Sulawesi and the Sula Islands. Males are black with a blue-violet gloss, while females include several plumage types, including barred rusty-brown forms. Some taxonomies treat it as a separate species; others combine it with related koels.

• Gray Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) grisescens

  The gray bat inhabits limestone regions of the Midwestern and southeastern United States. It uses caves as seasonal roosts and catches insects over water.

• Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus

  A bird of open Australian country, recognized by its crest, long pointed tail and orange cheek patches.

• Common Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas

  A monkey of savannas and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Grey-backed Shrike Lanius tephronotus

  The Grey-backed Shrike has a grey back, a black facial mask, and a chestnut tail. It breeds at high elevations, and winter movements differ between subspecies.

• 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.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

  An Alpine mouse with limited records in Italy; its ecology is still not well documented.

• Hooded Grebe Podiceps gallardoi

  The Hooded Grebe breeds in highland lakes in southern Argentina and is also recorded at Atlantic estuaries in winter.

• White-cheeked Squirrel Prosciurillus leucomus

  The white-cheeked squirrel lives in forests on the northern Sulawesi Peninsula and Lembeh Island. It is active by day, foraging in the canopy for soft fruits and insects.

• Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush Garrulax monileger

  This laughingthrush ranges through South and Southeast Asia. It is diurnal and gregarious, and the described subspecies has a dark breast necklace and a white eyebrow.

• Little Laucha Calomys laucha

  The Little Laucha is a small South American rodent weighing under 20 g. A study in central Argentine farmland reported a diet mainly of green plant material and seeds.

• Flightless Cormorant Nannopterum harrisi

  The flightless cormorant dives from the Galápagos coast to catch fish and octopus.

• Mauritian fruit bat Pteropus niger

  The Mauritian fruit bat is a large fruit-eating bat with golden fur, endemic to Mauritius.

• Black-faced Cotinga Conioptilon mcilhennyi

  A cotinga of southwestern Amazonian floodplain forest. Its dingy-white body contrasts with black wings, tail, mask, and throat.

• Korrigum Damaliscus korrigum

  The korrigum is an antelope recorded in West African savannas. In northern Benin’s Pendjari National Park, observers documented herds moving in the dry season toward fresh grass and remaining water.

• Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus

  The Large-tailed Nightjar is a nocturnal bird with mottled camouflage. It rests motionless on the ground or along a branch by day and catches flying insects at dusk.

• Felten's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) punicus

  Felten’s myotis occurs in northwestern Africa and several Mediterranean islands. It forages over semi-desert and sparsely vegetated areas and roosts underground.

• Madagascar Sandgrouse Pterocles personatus

  The Madagascar Sandgrouse feeds on seeds on dry open ground. Groups may fly to water, and males carry water to chicks in their soaked belly feathers.

• Ashy Red Colobus Piliocolobus tephrosceles

  The ashy red colobus is a red colobus monkey of Uganda and Tanzania that uses riverine and moist forests among other woodland types.