Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-banded Swallow Atticora fasciata

  

  Adults have glossy blue-black plumage and a broad white breast band. They search for food over Amazonian rivers.

• Madras Tree Shrew Anathana ellioti

  The Madras tree shrew is a small Indian mammal with a mottled back, pale belly, and pale shoulder stripe. It is reported to spend more time on the ground than in trees.

• Masked Woodswallow Artamus personatus

  This medium-sized bird's male has a black facial mask, and the species catches insects in flight. It wanders through dry regions and sometimes forms flocks.

• East African Mole Rat Tachyoryctes splendens

  The East African root rat occurs in patches of fertile soil in the northeastern African highlands. It excavates extensive underground burrows and makes nests from plant material and fecal matter.

• Greater Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa

  The Greater Sooty Owl is a nocturnal forest owl recorded in eastern Australia and New Guinea. It hunts vertebrate prey in dense forest.

• Long-nosed Echymipera Echymipera rufescens

  This bandicoot has a long snout and a reddish rump. It occurs around New Guinea and on Australia's northeastern Cape York Peninsula.

• Cryptic Becard Pachyramphus salvini

  Once included in the Black-and-white Becard, it was separated after genetic, morphological, and vocal comparisons. Its main range spans western Colombia, western Ecuador, north-western Peru, and the Marañón drainage.

• Chilean Dolphin Cephalorhynchus eutropia

  The Chilean dolphin is a small dolphin found along Chile’s coast. Records are patchy, and it often uses sheltered shallow waters such as bays and fjords.

• Marshall's Iora Aegithina nigrolutea

  Marshall's Iora shows conspicuous white edges on its tail and wings. It searches for insects in dry acacia scrub and may join mixed-species flocks after breeding.

• Northern Birch Mouse Sicista betulina

  The northern birch mouse is a small rodent with a slender body and a long tail. It is most active around the start and end of the night and hibernates underground in winter.

• Blue-and-gold Tanager Bangsia arcaei

  This blue-and-yellow tanager lives in Costa Rican mountain forests. Adults have dark blue upperparts and bright yellow underparts, and use the canopy as well as shrubs at forest edges.

• Desmarest's Hutia Capromys pilorides

  This hutia lives in Cuba and nearby islands. Its back is often darker than its underside, and coat colors vary.

• Flamecrest Regulus goodfellowi

  The Flamecrest is endemic to Taiwan's mountains, where it searches conifer foliage for small insects.

• Feline Genet Genetta felina

  This genet occurs in southern Africa. It has a pale grey coat with a continuous black line down the middle of its back, and uses grassland, open woodland and thickets.

• Cape Bulbul Pycnonotus capensis

  The Cape Bulbul is endemic to South Africa and is recognizable by its white eye-rings and bright yellow feathers under the tail.

• Coppery Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus johnstonii

  Johnston's brushtail possum has coppery-red fur and a cream-colored underside. It lives in forests of northeastern Australia and is mainly active in trees at night.

• Hispaniolan Trogon Priotelus roseigaster

  The Hispaniolan Trogon is the only trogon on Hispaniola. It has metallic green upperparts, a gray breast, and a red belly.

• Typical Lemniscomys Lemniscomys striatus

  The typical lemniscomys is a grassland mouse with pale stripes and rows of spots on its back. It is active by day and nests among grass or brush.

• Gray Trembler Cinclocerthia gutturalis

  This trembler occurs on Martinique and Saint Lucia. The Martinique source describes it in humid forest and gives a length of about 23–26 cm.

• Western Ring-tailed Possum Pseudocheirus occidentalis

  A nocturnal marsupial of forests in south-western Australia. It eats leaves and other plant foods, then rests by day in leafy nests built among branches.

• Madagascar Cuckooshrike Coracina cinerea

  An endemic cuckooshrike of Madagascar. It uses dry forest, humid evergreen forest and gallery forest, and may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy.

• Borneo Short-tailed Porcupine Hystrix (Thecurus) crassispinis

  This porcupine lives in forests and cultivated areas on Borneo. Its dark brown quills, with pale tips and bases, help identify it.

• Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus

  The Greater Yellow-headed Vulture lives mainly in the Amazon rainforest. It has a yellow head, a dark body, and feeds on animal carcasses.

• Southern Three-banded Armadillo Tolypeutes matacus

  The southern three-banded armadillo is an armadillo that tucks its head and legs beneath its hard shell and curls up for defense.