Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus

  

  The Pied Stilt walks through shallows on long legs, probing with a fine bill. h. leucocephalus in New Zealand.

• Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii

  The Tasmanian subspecies P. g. gunnii uses areas where grassland and remnant forest occur together. It probes the ground with its long nose for insects and worms.

• Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

  New Zealand birds of the Australasian Swamphen have a red frontal shield and bill and a deep blue-violet breast. Groups may defend territory and raise young cooperatively.

• Guianan Bearded Saki Chiropotes sagulatus

  The Guianan Bearded Saki occurs in the Guianas and northern Brazil. It has reddish-brown body fur, dark head, tail and lower limbs, a beard, and rounded crown tufts. Species accounts describe a seed-heavy diet that shifts seasonally toward insects, flowers, and fruit.

• Brown Nunlet Nonnula brunnea

  This nunlet lives in forest in northeastern Peru. It has a reddish-brown body and red skin around the eye, and is described perching on branches.

• Ord's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii

  Ord's kangaroo rat lives in dry areas of western North America and moves by hopping on long hind legs. It carries seeds in its cheek pouches and stores them in burrows.

• Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa rufipennis

  The Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon has a dark brown body with pale spots and chestnut wing panels visible in flight. It lives among sandstone formations in northern Australia.

• Baturite Porcupine Coendou baturitensis

  This porcupine is recorded from Ceará in northeastern Brazil. Its back has white-and-brown spines. A nighttime thermal-drone survey recorded it in an Atlantic Forest fragment at Mulungu within the Caatinga.

• Bronze-winged Jacana Metopidius indicus

  This wetland bird has a black head and breast, bronze-green back and wings, and a short reddish tail.

• Black-bellied Pangolin Phataginus tetradactyla

  An arboreal pangolin of West and Central Africa with a tail longer than its body.

• Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri

  This warbler is recorded in highland swamps of the Albertine Rift. It is dark brown with white spots and gives a fast, trilling song. A survey report says detailed feeding and breeding information is limited.

• Screaming hairy armadillo Chaetophractus vellerosus

  A hairy armadillo of dry regions, with fur showing between the plates of its armor. In hot summer weather it stays in burrows and is active at night.

• Pale-winged Trumpeter Psophia leucoptera

  A ground-walking bird of Amazonian forest, with glossy black plumage and a broad rounded white area on the back.

• Mountain Cuscus Phalanger carmelitae

  The mountain cuscus is an arboreal marsupial of New Guinea's mountains. It has thick, dark fur and feeds on leaves and fruit at night.

• Lesser Green Leafbird Chloropsis cyanopogon

  The Lesser Green Leafbird blends with foliage, while the male has a black face and blue throat. It searches for food in the canopy of Southeast Asian lowland forest.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Leach's Storm Petrel Hydrobates leucorhous

  A small seabird with long wings and a deeply notched tail. It picks food from the ocean surface and nests in burrows on offshore islands.

• Long-clawed Mole mouse Geoxus valdivianus

  The long-clawed mole mouse is a small rodent with tiny eyes and ears and long foreclaws. The forest-dwelling nominate form in southern Chile is nocturnal and uses both underground spaces and leaf litter.

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee Poecile rufescens

  This small bird lives along the Pacific coast of North America. Its rich brown plumage blends with coastal tree bark, and it travels with foraging flocks.

• Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura seychellensis

  The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a rare bat endemic to the Seychelles. A study on Silhouette Island found it roosting in small caves among boulders in lowland woodland.

• Chestnut-bellied Fantail Rhipidura hyperythra

  The Chestnut-bellied Fantail is widespread in hill and lower montane forest on New Guinea. It is active by day, searching in forest and along edges and sallying out to catch airborne prey.

• Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox

  A tree-climbing carnivorous mammal of Madagascar forests.

• Common Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

  The Common Scimitarbill has a slender, curved bill and uses dry open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. It moves through the canopy alone or in pairs.

• Xingu Silky Anteater Cyclopes xinguensis

  The Xingu Silky Anteater is known from dense Amazonian forests in Brazil. Its coat is predominantly gray, with a yellow patch near the base of the tail and a pale yellow underside. Brazil’s species assessment says its species-specific diet and natural history are not known.