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• 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.

• Yellow-gorgeted Greenbul Atimastillas flavicollis

  The yellow throat helps identify this bulbul. It eats fruit and insects in woodlands and thickets of western and central Africa.

• Madeira Pipistrelle Pipistrellus maderensis

  The Madeira pipistrelle is a small bat found in the Madeira and Canary Islands. It uses habitats from forests to towns and catches flying insects.

• Pale-vented Bush-hen Amaurornis moluccana

  A rail that hides in dense vegetation near wetlands. Its body is dull blue-gray, with a reddish-brown undertail, and its call is loud.

• Blackish Grass Mouse Thaptomys nigrita

  The blackish grass mouse is a small rodent that uses tunnels beneath leaf litter. A survey in southern Brazil recorded it in deciduous forest with pitfall traps.

• White-collared Manakin Manacus candei

  This small manakin occurs in lowland forest edges and thickets on the Caribbean side of Central America. Adult males are black, white, and yellow; females and young males are olive green with yellow bellies.

• Philippine Forest Rat Rattus everetti

  This rat has a gray to gray-brown back and a pale underside. In a southern Luzon survey, most captures came from less disturbed mid- and high-elevation forest.

• Rainbow Pitta Pitta iris

  This resident pitta lives in the seasonal forests of northern Australia and searches the leaf litter for food that changes with the season. The sexes look very similar.

• Striped Ground Squirrel Xerus (Euxerus) erythropus

  This ground squirrel occurs in dry parts of Africa, including open woodland, savanna, grassland, and rocky country. A pale stripe runs along each side from shoulder to hindquarters.

• Metallic Starling Aplonis metallica

  The Metallic Starling is a starling with glossy black adult plumage that reflects green or purple. Birds travel from New Guinea to breed in coastal lowlands of northern Queensland.

• Thick-thumbed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) rosseti

  This small bat is known from Cambodia, southern Thailand, and Vietnam. At one Vietnamese site, it was observed flying low over thickets and maize fields while foraging.

• White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus

  This tanager occurs in Bolivia’s lowland forests. The male has a large white wing patch, and pairs or family groups move through the forest.

• Durango Deermouse Peromyscus schmidlyi

  The Durango Deermouse was described from western Mexico. The original paper reports mountain records in Durango and eastern Sinaloa.

• Pale-naped Brush Finch Atlapetes pallidinucha

  The Pale-naped Brush Finch forages in the understory of Andean montane forest. It has grey upperparts and tail, a broad yellow-orange forehead that fades toward the crown and nape, and a yellow throat.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

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

• Antipodean Albatross Diomedea antipodensis

  This large albatross ranges over the Southern Ocean. Plumage varies with sex, age, and subspecies, and it breeds on islands south of New Zealand.

• Mentawai Squirrel Callosciurus melanogaster

  This dark squirrel is found only on the Mentawai Islands. It is active by day, mostly in trees, and eats fruit and young leaves.

• Palm Cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus

  The Palm Cockatoo is a large black parrot of forests in New Guinea and northern Australia; it eats nuts and fruit.

• Azorean Bat Nyctalus azoreum

  This bat is endemic to the Azores. A 1993 morphological comparison found it smaller than the related Leisler's bat, and a 2026 study confirmed its presence on Flores.

• Böhm's Spinetail Neafrapus boehmi

  This small swift has a very short tail and flies fast above African savannas and open woodland.

• West Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus

  The West Siberian brown lemming is a compact rodent with a short tail. It feeds on tundra plants and makes burrows in the ground or snow.

• Scaly-crowned Honeyeater Sugomel lombokius

  This honeyeater occurs on Lombok, Sumbawa, and Flores. Some bird accounts and field studies use the former combination Lichmera lombokia; the current scientific name is Sugomel lombokius.

• Common Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster

  The common water rat is a large rodent adapted to life near water. It has webbed feet and a thick tail with a white tip.

• Flavescent Warbler Myiothlypis flaveola

  Bolivian records place the Flavescent Warbler in dry to semi-humid woodland and gallery forest. Its yellow underside and olive upperparts are useful field marks.