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• Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda

  

  The Eastern Cattle Egret is mostly white, but its head, neck, and breast turn orange during breeding. It uses open grassland, fields, and wetlands and moves seasonally.

• Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica

  A sturdy wild goat of the Iberian mountains, with large horns. Its horns and coat differ by sex and season.

• White-browed Nuthatch Sitta victoriae

  A small nuthatch marked by a white eyebrow and chestnut flanks, known from highlands around Mount Victoria in Myanmar.

• Antelope Rat Tatera indica

  This large gerbil has reddish fur and a black tail tip. It burrows in dry plains and eats plants and insects.

• Brown Jay Cyanocorax morio

  A large, long-tailed jay with dark brown plumage and a pale belly. It often forages in groups; cooperative breeding is reported in Texas.

• Bolivian Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) ignitus

  The Bolivian squirrel lives in trees in South American mountain forests. It has an ocher or brown back, orange lower face and belly, and a rusty-red tail.

• Slender-tailed Woodstar Microstilbon burmeisteri

  This tiny hummingbird occurs from central and southern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina along the eastern Andes. The male is notable for its slender, elongated tail.

• Eurasian Water Vole Arvicola amphibius

  The Eurasian water vole is a waterside rodent described here from British records. It has chestnut-brown fur, a rounded blunt nose, small ears, and a furry tail, and eats grasses and waterside plants.

• Gould's Toucanet Selenidera gouldii

  A small toucan relative with a black head and chest in males and chestnut-brown head and chest in females. It lives in humid South American forests, and detailed diet records are limited.

• Oriental Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyomus

  Its back is dark grayish brown to dark brown with pale hair tips, and its underside is lighter. Records include India, Nepal, and Bhutan; the species account also lists moist forest, dry dipterocarp forest, and human-modified habitats.

• Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides

  The AOS classification treats the Blue-black Grosbeak as Cyanoloxia cyanoides. A report from northwestern Peru documents the subspecies C. c. cyanoides in scrub that differs from its usual humid-forest setting.

• Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus

  A small antelope that lives among rocks and leaps across rocky ground.

• Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon Treron fulvicollis

  The male is a green pigeon with an orange-rufous head and maroon wings, and it eats fruit. It lives in coastal forest and mangroves of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

• Fawn Hopping Mouse Notomys cervinus

  The fawn hopping mouse is an Australian rodent with long hind legs for hopping. It shelters in a burrow by day and has been recorded in small family groups.

• Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis

  This fiscal has gray and black plumage edged with white. It searches for invertebrates by day in dry scrub in eastern Africa.

• Ear-spot Squirrel Callosciurus adamsi

  The ear-spot squirrel lives on Borneo. A pale patch behind each ear is a useful identifying feature.

• Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens

  The Brown Illadopsis is a brown-toned bird that searches for insects and other invertebrates in the forest undergrowth of western and central Africa. It is often seen in pairs or small family groups.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

  The Green Catbird is an Australian bird with a green, white-spotted body and red eyes. It feeds on fruit and flowers in the forest canopy and gives a cat-like call.

• Southern Yellow Bat Dasypterus ega

  This bat is recorded in the lowlands of Bolivia. Its short, woolly coat is dark gray to cinnamon on the back, with a strongly contrasting belly. It catches insects while flying in open spaces.

• Rufous Vanga Schetba rufa

  The Rufous Vanga is endemic to Madagascar and occurs mainly in rainforest below 800 metres.

• 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.

• Whiskered Wren Pheugopedius mystacalis

  The Whiskered Wren is recorded in foothills and subtropical areas from Venezuela to western Ecuador. It has rufous upperparts, a striped black-and-white face, and pale gray underparts, and it keeps to thickets at forest edges.

• Black rat Rattus rattus

  An agile climbing rat that uses trees and high parts of buildings.