Meet the world’s animals.

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• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

  

  The Marsh Sandpiper is a slender wader with a needle-like bill and long yellowish legs. In Peninsular Malaysia it is recorded as a migrant and nonbreeding visitor.

• Sulawesi babirusa Babyrousa celebensis

  

  A pig from Sulawesi and nearby islands whose males have upper tusks that grow through the snout.

• Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus

  

  Wilson's Storm Petrel is a small seabird with long legs and a white rump patch. It breeds around Antarctica and travels widely over the oceans.

• Red-fronted Brown Lemur Eulemur rufifrons

  

  The red-fronted brown lemur is a tree-dwelling lemur from Madagascar that mainly eats fruit and leaves.

• Pohnpei Lorikeet Trichoglossus rubiginosus

  

  The adult Pohnpei Lorikeet has deep maroon plumage, with olive to yellow on the wings and tail. It visits flowering trees in small groups.

• Short-eared Bat Cyttarops alecto

  

  The short-eared bat has dark, fluffy fur. It lives in tropical lowland forest and catches insects on the wing at night.

• Maroon-backed Accentor Prunella immaculata

  The Maroon-backed Accentor ranges from the eastern Himalayas to southern China. It has a dark gray head and chestnut wings and keeps to dense cover.

• Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew Blarina hylophaga

  This stocky shrew has small eyes and ears hidden in its fur. It stays active year-round and searches for food under leaf litter and in the soil.

• Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus

  The Southern Emu-wren is a small bird of low scrub in southern Australia. Males have blue on the throat, and the fine tail feathers look loose and wispy.

• Masked Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus larvatus

  The masked ring-tailed possum is a marsupial of New Guinea’s forests. It has been recorded in mid-montane primary and secondary forest.

• American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

  A flamingo of the Caribbean and nearby regions, with long legs and a curved bill.

• Small Sulawesi Cuscus Strigocuscus celebensis

  The small cuscus has pale buff fur and a partly bare tail. It lives on Sulawesi and nearby islands.

• Dusky-capped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus

  The Dusky-capped Woodcreeper inhabits humid lowland forest in the southern Amazon. Its strongly streaked underside and canopy foraging are described in the species account.

• Four-toed hedgehog Atelerix albiventris

  A small, spiny-backed mammal of African grassland and woodland.

• Brown Honeyeater Lichmera indistincta

  It has a long, down-curved black bill and feeds mainly on nectar. It also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• Asian Garden Dormouse Eliomys melanurus

  The Asian garden dormouse has a dark mask around its eyes, large ears, and a bushy tail. It is nocturnal and solitary, and eats insects and other small animals.

• Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus

  The Spotted Honeyguide is an African bird with an olive back and a spotted breast. It searches forest canopies for beeswax and insects.

• Robinson's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Exulomarmosa) robinsoni

  Robinson's Mouse Opossum is a small marsupial with large ears and dark markings around the eyes. Current records extend from western Panama through Colombia to northern Venezuela and nearby islands.

• Rufous-fronted Bushtit Aegithalos iouschistos

  The Rufous-fronted Bushtit lives in forests and scrub from central Nepal east through the Himalayas. In the nominate form, a broad black mask and buff crown stripe are distinctive; outside the breeding season it forages in flocks.

• Lesson's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus fuscus

  Lesson’s saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forest from southeastern Colombia to northwestern Brazil. It has a black head and face, a reddish throat and belly, and a mottled back.

• Kamchatka Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus examinandus

  This leaf-warbler moves seasonally between eastern Russia and Japan and parts of East and Southeast Asia. Its habitats vary with season, from high-elevation shrubland to lowland forest.

• Black-and-rufous sengi Rhynchocyon petersi

  This small mammal probes leaf litter with its long snout and eats insects. Its reddish and black fur and white eye-rings are striking.

• Square-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus fossii

  The Square-tailed Nightjar is active at night in open woodland, savanna and scrub south of the Sahara. It catches flying beetles, grasshoppers and moths and lays its eggs in a shallow depression on the ground.

• Wyoming Pocket Gopher Thomomys clusius

  This small pocket gopher occurs in southern Wyoming. It has pale yellow-gray fur and is recorded on fine-soil flats, including areas with Gardner saltbush.