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• Colorado Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) quadrivittatus

  

  The Colorado chipmunk occurs in the southwestern United States, including Colorado and Utah. It forages on the ground and around logs, and stores food.

• Braun's Bushshrike Laniarius brauni

  This bushshrike is recorded in a restricted area of northern Angola. Its documented habitat includes secondary forest and forest edges.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.

• Sunda Laughingthrush Garrulax palliatus

  This laughingthrush lives in moist forests on Sumatra and Borneo and is often seen in small groups.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Lafresnaye's Vanga Xenopirostris xenopirostris

  Lafresnaye's Vanga is endemic to southern and southwestern Madagascar. It searches dead wood with a thick, flattened bill and feeds on invertebrates and sometimes small chameleons.

• Western Dwarf Squirrel Microsciurus mimulus

  This small squirrel has reddish or olive tones mixed into its dark back. It is active by day, uses trees and the ground, and feeds on tree sap and insects.

• Slaty Becard Pachyramphus spodiurus

  A tityrid of the foothills of northwestern Peru. Males are dark, females cinnamon-rufous, and pairs use the upper levels of semi-deciduous forest.

• Striped Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus barabensis

  A small hamster with a dark stripe down the centre of its back. Its range includes steppe from southern Siberia through Mongolia and northeastern China to the Korean Peninsula.

• Blue-rumped Pitta Hydrornis soror

  The Blue-rumped Pitta is a forest-dwelling pitta.

• Spinifex Hopping Mouse Notomys alexis

  The spinifex hopping mouse lives in sandy areas from central Australia into the west. It is active at night, moves by hopping, and digs deep burrows in the sand.

• African Rock Pipit Anthus crenatus

  This pipit lives in rocky highlands of South Africa and Lesotho. Its plumage differs with sex and age.

• Vancouver Island Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis

  The Vancouver Island marmot lives in mountain meadows on Canada's Vancouver Island. It has brown fur with white patches and hibernates underground.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Alston's Brown Mouse Scotinomys teguina

  This small mouse lives in Central American mountain forests. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates on the forest floor.

• White-crowned Shama Copsychus stricklandii

  It occurs in northeastern Borneo and uses forests with undergrowth. It is known for loud, beautiful songs and for mimicking other birds and sounds.

• 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.

• Blue Lorikeet Vini peruviana

  Adult Blue Lorikeets are dark blue-purple with white on the face and upper breast. They feed on nectar and soft fruit and move in small groups between flowering coconut palms.

• Junín Red Squirrel Sciurus (Hadrosciurus) pyrrhinus

  The Junín red squirrel is an arboreal squirrel recorded in Peru. Its back is reddish brown, while the underside ranges from white to more reddish shades.

• Salvin's Albatross Thalassarche salvini

  Adults have a pale grey head and neck and a pale yellow ridge on the upper bill. Salvin's Albatross breeds in colonies on New Zealand islands and seeks food at sea.

• Straw-colored Colilargo Oligoryzomys stramineus

  The Straw-colored Colilargo is a Brazilian rodent with pale dorsal fur sharply set off from its whitish underside. In the Cerrado it is chiefly reported from gallery forests.

• Broad-billed Warbler Tickellia hodgsoni

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to Indochina, using damp montane forest and bamboo undergrowth to find insects.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Rote Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus rotiensis

  The Rote Leaf-warbler was described from Rote Island, Indonesia. A 2018 study reports its appearance and behavior from observations on the island.