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• Red-tailed Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) ruficaudus

  

  Its striped back and face contrast with rufous shoulders and sides and an orange-red underside to the tail. It inhabits dense conifer forest, especially shrub-rich openings and edges.

• Nile Valley Sunbird Hedydipna metallica

  The Nile Valley Sunbird has a striking breeding male with bright plumage and a long forked tail. Females and non-breeding males are duller.

• Izecksohn's Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) izecksohni

  Specimen records of this bat extend from southeastern Brazil to northeastern Argentina. Its long, silky dorsal fur has dark bases and brown tips. In Argentina's Misiones Province, two females were collected in a region of grass savanna, scrub, and forest.

• Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus

  The Malabar Pied Hornbill has a black body, white belly, and white wing edges. The male's large pale bill and casque stand out.

• Roborovski hamster Phodopus roborovskii

  A small hamster of sandy habitats in Mongolia and northern China.

• Red-fronted Warbler Urorhipis rufifrons

  This small bird uses dry savanna and thorn scrub, searching for food while flicking its long tail.

• Tantalus Monkey Chlorocebus tantalus

  Tantalus monkeys forage along forest edges and in grassland, and can disperse seeds from fruit they eat. A study site in Nigeria yielded seeds that remained intact in their faeces.

• Oahu Elepaio Chasiempis ibidis

  The Oahu Elepaio is a small flycatcher found only on Oahu. Hawaiʻi and U.S. federal listings classify it as endangered.

• Davis's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma evotis

  Davis’s Round-eared Bat is recorded in lowlands from southern Mexico to northeastern Honduras. It flies in the forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Yellow-breasted Antpitta Grallaria flavotincta

  This antpitta inhabits wet mountain forests on the western Andes. Its head and back are chestnut, its underparts are cream, and the area between the eye and bill is grey. Records extend from western Colombia to north-western Ecuador.

• Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii

  Gerbilliscus (Taterona) kempii is a gerbil recorded in West Africa. Its back is pale brown darkened by black hairs, and its underside is white. A 2026 survey in southeastern Sierra Leone recorded it in a plantation, a forest reserve, and grassland.

• Grey Tinamou Tinamus tao

  A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.

• Formosan Serow Capricornis swinhoei

  A serow native to the mountains of Taiwan that feeds on young leaves and buds.

• Western barn owl Tyto alba

  An owl with a heart-shaped face, seen over farmland and grassland in Britain.

• Black Flying Squirrel Aeromys tephromelas

  A nocturnal flying squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. Its coat differs between two subspecies, one mainly black and the other orange-red.

• Rufous-cheeked Nightjar Caprimulgus rufigena

  The Rufous-cheeked Nightjar lives in dry country and catches flying insects at dusk. Its back is finely marked, and adult males have white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Tickell's Bat Hesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) tickelli

  This bat draws attention with fur ranging from grayish yellow to golden brown and a broad, swollen muzzle. It is recorded from South Asia into Southeast Asia.

• Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae

  The male Yellow-billed Cotinga is white with a pale blue-gray crown and yellow bill; the female has grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail. It eats fruit around Pacific-coast mangroves in Central America.

• Jaliscan Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) mascotensis

  The Jaliscan Cotton Rat occurs in western Mexico. It has coarse brown fur above and a pale underside, and it is commonly associated with grasslands and farmland.

• Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayii

  The Forest Kingfisher is an Australian kingfisher with a blue back and white underside. Males have a white collar, and both sexes hunt from perches.

• Sanje Mangabey Cercocebus sanjei

  The Sanje mangabey is endemic to Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. The 2024 conservation plan reports it from two separated forest fragments.

• Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus

  A green-and-gray parakeet native to South America. It builds communal stick nests in trees and on poles, where groups live together.

• Fringe-lipped Bat Trachops cirrhosus

  The fringe-lipped bat has wart-like bumps on its lips and chin. It lives in lowland forests of Central and South America and roosts in hollow trees or caves.

• Brown-winged Schiffornis Schiffornis turdina

  About 17 cm long, both sexes are brownish birds. It occurs in lower layers of humid forest and in shaded secondary growth.