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• Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum

  

  A large curassow of the northern Amazon. Its mostly black plumage has a blue gloss, and two nests were recorded in white-sand forest in northern Brazil.

• Seminole Bat Lasiurus seminolus

  This bat has rich chestnut-brown fur with pale tips. It catches insects in flight at dusk and occurs mainly in the southeastern United States.

• Tablas Drongo Dicrurus menagei

  This drongo is treated as endemic to Tablas Island in the Philippines. Its outer tail feathers are very long and curve outward at the tips; most field observations were in mature, closed-canopy forest.

• Malbrouck Chlorocebus cynosuros

  This savanna monkey occurs in central and southern Africa. Its species profile highlights open woodland with grasses and also lists riverine and marsh forests and human-modified areas.

• Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis caudatus

  This small babbler inhabits moist evergreen forest in the eastern Himalayas. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth in steep gullies and occurs from eastern Nepal through Bhutan to northeastern India.

• 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.

• Yellow-legged Tinamou Crypturellus noctivagus

  A 2016 taxonomic reassessment separated two Brazilian forms previously grouped together as Yellow-legged Tinamou: Crypturellus noctivagus and C. zabele. This entry follows the Atlantic Forest form, C. noctivagus. A 2019 distribution study used the broader earlier concept, so its map should not be read as the range of C. noctivagus alone under the later treatment.

• Townsend's Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) townsendii

  It has stripes on its back and face, with ears black in front and gray behind. It lives in Pacific Northwest hardwood and conifer forests, often using riparian or shrub-rich cover and rocky slopes for nesting.

• Clarke's Weaver Ploceus golandi

  Clarke's Weaver is a weaver found in southeastern Kenya. Males show black and yellow plumage, while females are olive and yellow.

• European Snow Vole Chionomys nivalis

  A gray vole with long, dense fur and a tail about half as long as its body. It remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Salvadori's Nightjar Caprimulgus pulchellus

  Salvadori's Nightjar has dark plumage and a short tail. It is active at night in forests of Sumatra and Java, catching insects in flight; the wing patch differs between the sexes.

• Cyprus Mouse Mus cypriacus

  This mouse was described as an endemic species of Cyprus. It has agouti-patterned fur on the back, and the original description recorded captures in abandoned cultivated plots in the island's south.

• Olive-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris chloropygius

  A small sunbird with a broad range in western and central Africa. The sexes look very different, and birds often feed at low flowers.

• Southern Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa io

  The southern little yellow bat is a small aerial insectivore. It has been recorded hunting flying insects along forest trails, in clearings, and over water, but the boundaries of this broadly defined taxon remain under review.

• Northern Red-shouldered Macaw Diopsittaca nobilis

  A small green macaw with red shoulder feathers in adults. It eats seeds and fruit in South American savanna, woodland, and wetland habitats.

• Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis

  The blue monkey is a forest-dwelling tree monkey. Adult females studied in Kenya's Kakamega Forest ate much fruit and shifted foods as availability changed.

• Malherbe's Parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi

  This small green parakeet has blue on the wings, a yellow crown, and an orange band above the eyes. Its native range is restricted to beech-forest valleys on New Zealand’s South Island.

• Hirola Beatragus hunteri

  The hirola is an antelope of dry grasslands in northeastern Kenya and adjacent areas. A white marking around the eyes resembles a mask, and it selectively grazes short grasses.

• Seram Imperial Pigeon Ducula neglecta

  The Seram Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of the southern Moluccas in Indonesia. It searches within lowland and mangrove forest and along forest edges, alone or in pairs.

• Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus madrensis

  The Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel has a pale coat with subdued dark stripes. It lives in high-elevation pine forest in northwestern Mexico, is active by day, and hibernates in winter.

• Fulvous Wren Cinnycerthia fulva

  The Fulvous Wren occurs in the eastern Andes of southeastern Peru and Bolivia. It is olive-rufous, with a pale eyebrow and throat and dark bars on the wings and tail.

• Djungarian hamster Phodopus sungorus

  A small hamster originating in Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia. It carries material in large cheek pouches.

• Layard's Warbler Curruca layardi

  This warbler ranges from western Namibia through South Africa to Lesotho. Adult males have grey upperparts and a white throat marked with black streaks. It forages low in shrubs, alone or in pairs.

• Tarabul's Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) tarabuli

  Tarabul's gerbil is a nocturnal desert rodent that eats dry seeds. The study describes it as independent of drinking water and reliant on water produced through metabolism.