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• Black-capped White-eye Zosterops atricapilla

  

  This white-eye lives in montane forest. In 2025, a pair was observed taking nectar from flowers near a nest at Kinabalu Park, Malaysia.

• Blackish Deer Mouse Peromyscus furvus

  The blackish deer mouse lives in cloud forests along the Sierra Madre Oriental in eastern Mexico. It is described with dark fur, large ears, and a long, slightly scaled tail.

• Socotra Sparrow Passer insularis

  The Socotra Sparrow is a sparrow of Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago. This entry follows BirdLife’s treatment of Passer insularis as a species.

• Southern Water Vole Arvicola sapidus

  The southern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It eats plants along riverbanks and digs burrows in soft, vegetated banks.

• Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex

  The Green Tinkerbird is a small bird with dull olive-green plumage, a yellow rump, and yellow wing bars. It uses dense forest undergrowth and edges in eastern Africa, eating fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

  This seabird spends much of its time over the North Pacific and returns to remote island colonies to raise its chick.

• Dimorphic Egret Egretta dimorpha

  The Dimorphic Egret has dark and white plumage forms and breeds in Madagascar and along parts of the East African coast.

• Rufous-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus speciosus

  Rufous-breasted Wood-Quails inhabit humid forest on the eastern Andes and forage on the ground in family groups. Adult males have rufous underparts, while female plumage differs among the populations described.

• Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus

  A small hornbill with a striking red bill. It inhabits tropical lowland forest and gives wavering whistles alone or in pairs.

• Grey-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis gularis

  This parrotbill stands out for its oversized orange bill, gray head, and black brow and throat.

• Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina

  A pale, sandy-colored wheatear of Kazakhstan’s steppe and semi-desert. It nests in disused mammal burrows.

• Short-billed Pipit Anthus furcatus

  The Short-billed Pipit searches short grass and dry grassland. It has a mottled brown back and dark breast streaks, and has been recorded in several parts of Argentina.

• Common Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera galatea

  The Common Paradise Kingfisher is notable for its long tail feathers with white, racket-shaped tips. It lives in forests around New Guinea and searches for prey near the ground.

• Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei

  The Red-faced Guan is a large bird of mountain forests in southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has red bare facial skin and a red throat wattle.

• Chinese Grassbird Graminicola striatus

  This grassbird lives in tall grass. In Hong Kong, it hides in Miscanthus grassland and low bamboo, and shows a conspicuous black-and-white streaked nape patch on a warm brown body.

• Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri

  The Mexican Chickadee has a black cap and bib, white cheeks, and a gray back. It searches branches for insects and other food in high-elevation pine-oak forests.

• Great Tinamou Tinamus major

  A large ground-dwelling bird of tropical lowland forest. It is hard to see but known for a haunting double whistle at dawn and dusk.

• Shy Heathwren Hylacola cauta

  This small bird lives in southern Australian mallee scrub and similar habitats. Its warm brown back, chestnut rump, and white wing patch help identify it.

• White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax

  This tanager inhabits humid lowland forests of Central America. Males are mostly yellow and black, females are brown with a pale throat, and the birds are often seen in pairs, families, or mixed-species flocks.

• White-cheeked Cotinga Zaratornis stresemanni

  The White-cheeked Cotinga has a black cap, white cheeks, dark spots and streaks, and a rusty central belly. It occurs on Peru's western Andean slope and forages in Polylepis woodland.

• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea

  A gull closely tied to Arctic sea ice. Adults are white, while young birds keep dark mottling.

• Lesser Cuckooshrike Coracina fimbriata

  This cuckooshrike occurs in forests across Southeast Asia. The Singapore account lists it as a former resident there and now a very rare visitor.

• Superb Pitta Pitta superba

  This pitta is endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Its glossy black plumage has bright red feathers beneath the tail and pale blue on the upperwing. A 1990 survey observed it calling from forest perches.

• Bornean Stubtail Urosphena whiteheadi

  The Bornean Stubtail is a small bird with an almost invisible tail. It moves like a mouse through leaf litter and undergrowth in mountain forest, searching for insects near the ground.