Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sand Martin Riparia riparia

  

  A small martin with a grey-brown back, pale underside, and dark chest band. In Britain it arrives from Africa in spring to breed, digging nest burrows in sandy banks near water.

• Javan Rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus

  The Javan rhinoceros lives in Ujung Kulon National Park, Indonesia. Its gray skin has deep folds.

• Elegant Crescentchest Melanopareia elegans

  The Elegant Crescentchest is recorded in dry forest and scrub in extreme northwestern Peru. Males have black heads, creamy eyebrows and throats, chestnut breasts, and broad black crescent bands; females have a reduced band and rufous underparts.

• Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus

  A rare seal found in the Mediterranean and along northwest Africa; it feeds on fish, octopus and other prey.

• Bare-nosed wombat Vombatus ursinus

  A wombat of southeastern Australia, Tasmania and nearby islands. It digs burrows to rest in and feeds on grasses.

• Greater Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis

  The female has a more vivid reddish-brown head and breast than the male. This bird searches for food in muddy freshwater wetlands.

• Great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo

  A long-necked swimmer that dives to catch fish.

• Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus

  The eastern mole digs underground tunnels and feeds on earthworms and beetle larvae. Its broad front feet are adapted for digging.

• Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in the northwestern Amazon. Males have a black head, a white eyebrow, and black-and-white spots on the back. It is found in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Eastern gray squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) carolinensis

  A tree squirrel native to eastern North America. Gray coats are typical, though dark individuals also occur.

• Lowland paca Cuniculus paca

  A spotted forest rodent that feeds on fallen fruit.

• Red-vented Barbet Psilopogon lagrandieri

  The Red-vented Barbet inhabits forests in Laos and Vietnam. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blue line above the eye, red undertail coverts, and reddish bristles at the base of the bill.

• Short-eared owl Asio flammeus

  An owl with yellow eyes and mottled brown plumage, seen hunting over grasslands and wetlands in Britain.

• Mendoza Tuco-tuco Ctenomys mendocinus

  This burrowing rodent is recorded in west-central Argentina and the high Andes of Chile, in grasslands and dry scrub.

• Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius

  The Egyptian Plover is marked by a black-and-white face and a blue-gray back and feeds along sandy, gravelly banks of large rivers.

• Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus

  A whale with a long, slender body and mottled blue-gray skin.

• Cape genet Genetta tigrina

  A southern African genet with dark spots on a pale coat and rings on its tail. It is active at night and climbs well.

• Rock Parrot Neophema petrophila

  The Rock Parrot is a small parrot of coastal and offshore-island habitats along southern Australia. It searches for seeds and fruit in coastal grassland and scrub.

• Common Crane Grus grus

  A large crane that breeds from Europe across northern Asia and winters in southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and other regions.

• East Bornean Gray Gibbon Hylobates funereus

  This gibbon lives in northern and eastern Borneo and travels through the canopy using its long arms.

• Sunda Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus bornensis

  The Sunda Scimitar-Babbler occurs on Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula. It is treated as a species separate from the Javan Scimitar-Babbler and has a long downcurved bill.

• Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba

  An offshore dolphin with striking stripes running from the eyes along the sides of its body.

• Schmidt's Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Leuconycteris) schmidtorum

  Schmidt's big-eared bat is a small bat with conspicuous ears and a leaf-like nose feature. It gleans insects from leaves at night and roosts in tree hollows.

• Storm's Stork Ciconia stormi

  A large stork of lowland freshwater swamp forest. Adults are black and white with a red bill; immature birds have brown where adults are black.