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• Tres Marías Deer Mouse Peromyscus madrensis

  

  This mouse is known from the Islas Marías off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Its records are tied to islands separated from the mainland.

• Plum-faced Lorikeet Oreopsittacus arfaki

  This small lorikeet lives in the mountains of New Guinea. It feeds on nectar, flowers, and fruit in the canopy and mid-storey, often in pairs or small flocks.

• Gee's Golden Langur Trachypithecus geei

  Gee's golden langur occurs in Assam, India, and neighbouring Bhutan. It lives in trees in forested habitats.

• Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria

  The Island Imperial Pigeon is a large, pale gray pigeon of island forests with tall trees. It eats fruit and sometimes makes flights over the sea between islands.

• Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista

  The red giant flying squirrel spreads a membrane between its limbs to glide from tree to tree. It is nocturnal and lives among forest trees.

• Brown Barbet Caloramphus fuliginosus

  The Brown Barbet is a small barbet of Borneo's woodlands. Its brown back, red throat and upper breast, and white belly stand out, and it feeds mainly on fruit.

• Large Myotis Myotis (Myotis) chinensis

  Large Myotis is a large mouse-eared bat recorded in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.

• Ruwenzori Duiker Cephalophus rubidus

  MDD treats the Ruwenzori Duiker as the species Cephalophorus rubidus. A 2025 IUCN Antelope Specialist Group guide still follows the Red List and lists it as a subspecies of the Black-fronted Duiker, so sources do not yet agree on its rank.

• Red-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps

  The Red-billed Scimitar Babbler is a forest bird with a long, curved red bill and a prominent white eyebrow.

• Big-eared Woolly Bat Chrotopterus auritus

  The big-eared woolly bat is a large bat with long dark-brown fur and large ears. It is active at night and catches small vertebrates and insects.

• Yellowish White-eye Zosterops nigrorum

  This white-eye inhabits forests and wooded areas in northern and central Philippines. Its yellowish belly helps identify it, and it feeds on tiny invertebrates and fruit.

• Oriental House Rat Rattus tanezumi

  The Oriental House Rat is widely recorded in rural and residential parts of Taiwan. Its back is gray-brown, its underside gray-white, and it eats grain grown or stored by people.

• Dusky Sunbird Cinnyris fuscus

  A breeding male has a glossy black head, back, and chest with a white belly. The orange pectoral tufts may show when he is excited or displaying. The species feeds mainly on nectar.

• Brandt's Vole Lasiopodomys brandtii

  Brandt's vole lives in Mongolian grasslands and eats plant material both above and below ground. It digs extensive burrow systems and may store food there.

• Brown-crowned Tchagra Tchagra australis

  This bushshrike has a pale eyebrow and rufous wings. It searches for insects near the ground in scrub and open woodland.

• Bengal Sacred Langur Semnopithecus entellus

  A large monkey found mainly in the northern Indian plains south of the Ganges and north of the Godavari.

• Fülleborn's Longclaw Macronyx fuelleborni

  Fülleborn's Longclaw is a grassland bird with a yellow eyebrow and throat, a black breast band, and a buff-colored belly. Pairs use upland grassland and other grassy habitats, especially near water.

• Santander dwarf squirrel Microsciurus santanderensis

  The Santander dwarf squirrel is a small forest squirrel from Colombia. Orange and black fur is reported, but taxonomic confusion leaves its ecology poorly known.

• Short-crested Monarch Hypothymis helenae

  This monarch flycatcher occurs in the Philippines. A study on Luzon found a nest in secondary forest.

• Black-winged Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa tumida

  The black-winged little yellow bat ranges from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The edges of its range remain uncertain.

• Negros Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus nigrorum

  A small leaf warbler widespread in the Philippines and associated with montane rainforest. eBird treats it as a species separate from Mountain Leaf Warbler.

• Lelwel Hartebeest Alcelaphus lelwel

  Alcelaphus lelwel has a reddish coat, pale rump and narrow upright V-shaped horns. Its HMW species account describes grass-only feeding in savanna mixed with woodland, with feeding peaks late in the day.

• White-chinned Swift Cypseloides cryptus

  This swift has blackish plumage and a pale gray chin. It catches insects on the wing above forests and gorges in Central and South America.