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• Sao Tome Prinia Prinia molleri

  

  This prinia is endemic to São Tomé. The study reports it as common in disturbed and edge habitats such as savanna, plantations, farmland and gardens, but rare and locally distributed in the primary-forest sites surveyed. It feeds low in the vegetation, from leaf undersides or the ground.

• Min Mountain Striped Squirrel Tamiops minshanica

  This striped squirrel was described from the Minshan Mountains of Sichuan, China. A 2026 multilocus study also recognizes it among the valid species of Tamiops.

• Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba

  In breeding plumage, the Pigeon Guillemot is black with white wing patches and bright red feet. It dives for food near rocky shores.

• Gray-shanked Douc Pygathrix cinerea

  The gray-shanked douc lives in forests of Vietnam's Central Highlands. It has a gray coat, white cheek fur, and an orange collar marking, and feeds on young leaves in trees.

• White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus

  The White-tipped Swift occurs on northern South American tepuis and along the Andes. It flies over humid forest and feeds in small flocks.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

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

• Northern Fantail Rhipidura rufiventris

  The Northern Fantail searches for insects in forests and along forest edges in northern Australia. A regional field guide describes a gray bird with a fine pale eyebrow and white throat, and notes that its tail is less fanned than that of other fantails.

• African Yellow Bat Scotophilus dinganii

  The African Yellow Bat has a yellowish underside and eats insects. It roosts in hollow trees and buildings, alone or in small groups.

• Tanimbar Corella Cacatua goffiniana

  Mostly white with yellow and orange in its plumage, this cockatoo is native to Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands.

• Hairy Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Xenoctenes) hirsuta

  The Hairy Big-eared Bat occurs in Central and South America. At a study site in Ecuador, bats carried prey to their roosts and ate mainly katydids and soft-bodied beetles.

• Red-and-white Antpitta Grallaria erythroleuca

  Both sexes have similar rufous-brown and white plumage. In southeastern Peru's moist mountain forests, it searches near the ground for beetles, ants, and spiders.

• Nubian Ibex Capra nubiana

  A wild goat of dry, rocky mountains in northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It moves along slopes by day to graze on grasses and leaves.

• Silky-tailed Nightjar Antrostomus sericocaudatus

  The Silky-tailed Nightjar is a forest nightjar. In Misiones, Argentina, the nominate subspecies occurs in Atlantic Forest.

• California Red-backed Mouse Myodes californicus

  This vole is recorded along the Pacific coast of northern California and Oregon. It lives among leaf litter and fallen logs in moist forest and searches for fungi at night.

• Yellow-crested Manakin Heterocercus flavivertex

  This manakin occurs in the lowlands of northern South America. At one study site in northern Venezuela it was observed in seasonally flooded forest and white-sand scrub woodland.

• Hoary Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) caligata

  The hoary marmot is a large rodent of high mountains, marked by gray shoulders and a white nose.

• Lesser Blue-eared Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus

  The Lesser Blue-eared Starling has glossy blue-green plumage and violet-blue areas on the flanks and belly. It searches in trees and on the ground for fruit, seeds, and insects.

• De Brazza’s monkey Cercopithecus neglectus

  An African monkey with a white beard that lives in forests near rivers.

• African Marsh Harrier Circus ranivorus

  Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

  Brants's gerbil lives in southern African grasslands and has a white-tipped tail.

• Whistler's Warbler Seicercus whistleri

  This entry uses the current combination *Phylloscopus whistleri* rather than the pool's older *Seicercus whistleri*. It occurs in mountain regions around the Himalayas and forages for insects in forest understory.

• Bechstein's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) bechsteinii

  This long-eared bat occurs in Europe. It uses mature deciduous woodland and tree holes, including old woodpecker holes, for breeding roosts.

• Dark-backed Sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca

  The Dark-backed Sibia is a slender, long-tailed bird of mountains in Myanmar, northwestern and western Thailand, and northwestern Laos. It has a black head and white underparts.

• Greater Spear-nosed Bat Phyllostomus hastatus

  The greater spear-nosed bat has a well-developed noseleaf and a V-shaped groove in its lower lip. It roosts in caves and eats mostly insects, along with fruit, nectar, and pollen.