Meet the world’s animals.

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• Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

  

  The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a tiny bird recognized by its yellow crown and searches for small prey in conifers.

• Black-handed Titi Cheracebus medemi

  The black-handed titi occurs in the Colombian Amazon. Its species account describes dark hands, feet, tail, and underparts, with a white throat.

• Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata

  A small diver with grey-brown plumage and a slightly upturned bill. The throat becomes red in summer breeding plumage.

• Antafia Sportive Lemur Lepilemur aeeclis

  Lepilemur aeeclis occurs in northwestern Madagascar. A forest survey in the Antrema protected area reported this mainly leaf-eating lemur more often in closed-canopy forest and less often in shrub, dune, and wooded agricultural sites.

• Bernier's Vanga Oriolia bernieri

  This vanga lives in humid evergreen forest in eastern Madagascar. It searches leaf bases and dead wood for insects.

• Ebony Glider Petaurus gracilis

  The mahogany glider is a marsupial that glides through woodlands in northern Queensland. Its buff-to-apricot belly and dark stripe from the head toward the rump are distinctive.

• Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys

  This parakeet is leaf green with a red head, a heavy white eye-ring and a pale bill. It is native to dry forests in western Peru and Ecuador and roosts communally in large groups.

• Korean Field Mouse Apodemus peninsulae

  This mouse has a reddish-brown back and white underside. It lacks the dark stripe seen in a close relative and has relatively long ears and hind feet.

• Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus

  It hides in dense coastal vegetation and sometimes runs across open clearings. Its loud song can reveal where it is.

• Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat Murina ussuriensis

  The Ussuri tube-nosed bat is recorded from Hokkaido to Kyushu in Japan. It leaves its roost at dusk to catch flying insects and hibernates in winter.

• Barred Buttonquail Turnix suscitator

  The Barred Buttonquail is a small bird that eats grass seeds and small invertebrates. Females are described as more brightly colored than males, and the birds are often solitary or in small groups.

• Eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus

  A spotted marsupial that searches for insects and other food at night.

• Red-gartered Coot Fulica armillata

  The Red-gartered Coot is a waterbird marked by a red band on each leg. It swims in lakes, ponds, and slow rivers and feeds on aquatic plants.

• Pyrenean Desman Galemys pyrenaicus

  The Pyrenean desman is a small mammal of mountain streams. It uses its long, mobile snout to find small aquatic animals on the streambed.

• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea

  The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is a tiny, long-tailed bird with blue-gray plumage. It moves through the outer foliage of broadleaf forests and scrublands while searching for insects and spiders.

• Greater Blind Mole Rat Spalax microphthalmus

  This subterranean rodent has small eyes covered by a skin membrane and digs with its front teeth. It makes underground passages and food stores, and eats plant parts from below the ground.

• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah Vidua obtusa

  This whydah inhabits woodland and grassland in eastern and southern Africa. It eats grass seeds on the ground; breeding males have a conspicuously long tail.

• Botswanan Mole-rat Fukomys damarensis

  The Damara mole-rat forms underground colonies. A breeding pair is at the center, while other members share tasks such as digging tunnels, gathering food, and caring for young.

• White-capped Dipper Cinclus leucocephalus

  This bird lives along mountain streams in the Andes. Its pale head and throat contrast with a dark back and belly, and it feeds on small animals near water.

• Amazon Weasel Neogale africana

  This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.

• Painted Sandgrouse Pterocles indicus

  The Painted Sandgrouse is a ground-dwelling bird of dry, open country in India and northern Pakistan. Males have bold black-and-white bands, while females are finely mottled.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• Radde's Accentor Prunella ocularis

  Radde's Accentor is a small mountain bird with a white eyebrow and a dark-streaked back. It searches for insects and seeds on the ground.

• Black-headed Marmoset Mico nigriceps

  This small marmoset lives in lowland forest and forest edges in the south-central Amazon. It eats gum, fruit, seeds, and insects.