Meet the world’s animals.

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• Claudia's Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus claudiae

  

  It breeds in forests of central and southwestern China, then winters from southern Yunnan through India and Southeast Asia. It searches for small insects at different forest levels.

• Mongolian Pika Ochotona (Pika) pallasi

  The Mongolian Pika is a small pika whose coat is lighter in summer and darker in winter. It is active by day around its burrow and stores gathered grasses as food for winter.

• Sulphur-rumped Myiobius Myiobius sulphureipygius

  The Sulphur-rumped Myiobius lives in the lower and middle levels of humid forest. Males have a dark olive back and pale yellow rump; the yellow crown patch is often hidden.

• Malayan Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris malayana

  Tylonycteris malayana is a small bat associated with bamboo-rich forests. Its species account describes daytime roosting in bamboo cavities and feeding on insects at night.

• Diademed Plover Phegornis mitchellii

  The Diademed Plover is a small shorebird with a black head crossed by a white band, a chestnut neck, and a long slender bill. It lives along rivers and wetlands in the high Andes and is recorded along the Argentine Andes.

• Kaluta Dasykaluta rosamondae

  This small marsupial lives in arid northern Australia; one winter study found it active by day in the dry season.

• African sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus

  A mainly white bird with a black head and neck and a long down-curved bill. The head and neck are bare in adults.

• Nelson's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys nelsoni

  Records from northern Mexico include juniper woodland and places with salt-tolerant plants.

• Socotra Bunting Emberiza socotrana

  The Socotra Bunting is restricted to Socotra Island. Adults show a black-and-white striped head, chestnut wing coverts, and a richer cinnamon breast in breeding plumage.

• Baird's Pocket Gopher Geomys breviceps

  This pocket gopher is smaller than close relatives and occurs in eastern Texas. Underground stores of rhizomes may provide food in winter.

• Forest Batis Batis mixta

  This small bird lives in forests from south-eastern Kenya into Tanzania. Males show blue-gray, black, and white markings; females are marked mainly with chestnut.

• Common tree shrew Tupaia glis

  This small mammal has a long, tapering muzzle and a bushy tail. During the day it searches for fruit and insects on the ground and among low shrubs.

• Narrow-billed Tody Todus angustirostris

  This small tody has a clear white streak behind the eye, a gray breast, and pale irises. It lives in Hispaniola's mountain forests and catches flying insects.

• South American coati Nasua nasua

  A coati of South American forests, with an elongated flexible snout and a long ringed tail.

• Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi

  A small honeyguide of forest and forest edge. Its olive wings stand out, and it calls from regular song posts.

• Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus

  The pileated gibbon occurs in forests of Thailand, Cambodia and southwestern Laos. Adult males and females have markedly different coat colors.

• Boulder Chat Pinarornis plumosus

  The Boulder Chat is a terrestrial bird of well-wooded areas with granite outcrops. It eats insects and small lizards.

• Golden Palm Civet Paradoxurus zeylonensis

  The golden palm civet is an arboreal civet native to Sri Lanka. Its coat occurs in golden-brown and dark-brown forms.

• Black-capped Gnatcatcher Polioptila nigriceps

  This slender, small bird searches for insects among low vegetation. Breeding males have a black cap.

• Highveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) brantsii

  Brants's gerbil lives in southern African grasslands and has a white-tipped tail.

• Yellow Thornbill Acanthiza nana

  A small bird of eastern Australia, often in open woodland and shrubland. Its yellowish underside and white cheek streaks stand out as it forages among leaves.

• Little White-shouldered Bat Ametrida centurio

  This small bat has pale patches on its shoulders. Males are grayer than females and have a swollen area below each eye.

• Baudo Guan Penelope ortoni

  The Baudó Guan is a large bird of the humid forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. Its dark brown body has small white patches, and a red wattle hangs from its throat.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.