Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei

  

  This social barbet feeds on fruit in groups; adult males have a grey throat and brown plumage.

• Alcathoe Myotis Myotis (Myotis) alcathoe

  This small whiskered bat is found in damp deciduous woodland, often near water.

• Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen

  The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black-and-white bird found across Australia. Its back pattern varies by sex and region.

• Narrow-nosed Planigale Planigale tenuirostris

  The Narrow-nosed Planigale is a small marsupial with a flattened, triangular head and a thin tail about as long as its body. It lives in grasslands, shrublands and other habitats in eastern Australia.

• Red-backed Mousebird Colius castanotus

  The Red-backed Mousebird lives in western Angola, including forest edges, and feeds on fruits, buds, and leaves. A brown-red patch on its lower back is distinctive.

• Karoo Round-eared Sengi Macroscelides proboscideus

  A small sengi with a long nose and large eyes that lives on gravel plains in the Karoo region.

• American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus

  A large shorebird that searches tidal flats and beaches for shellfish with its long orange-red bill.

• Southern Spotted Skunk Spilogale angustifrons

  The southern spotted skunk has white stripes and spots against a dark coat. It occurs from southern Mexico, outside the Yucatán Peninsula, south to Costa Rica.

• Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrochalybeia

  The Sao Tome Paradise Flycatcher is found only on São Tomé. It uses forest understory and midstory, including shaded lowland cocoa plantations, and has been recorded catching insects over rivers.

• Sinaloan Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus pernix

  The Sinaloan pocket mouse lives on sandy lowlands along Mexico's western coast. Records come from coastal dunes, thornscrub, seasonal dry forest, and river valleys.

• Rufous-throated Dipper Cinclus schulzii

  Its dark-gray body is marked by a rusty throat and breast. In fast mountain streams in northwestern Argentina, it wades and searches among stones for larvae and insects.

• Northern Tigrina Leopardus tigrinus

  The northern tiger cat is a small, slender wild cat with rosette-like spots. It lives alone and is active mainly at night.

• Yellow-throated Leafbird Chloropsis palawanensis

  A forest bird of the Palawan islands with a green body, yellow throat, and blue wing markings.

• Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo Cabassous centralis

  The northern naked-tailed armadillo has bands of armor on its back but no protective plates on its tail. It digs with large claws and feeds mainly on insects.

• American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

  The American White Pelican is a North American pelican with broad black-and-white wings and a huge bill. It scoops fish in shallow water, sometimes herding fish with other pelicans.

• Isabel's Saki Pithecia isabela

  A saki recorded in the Peruvian Amazon, including the Pacaya-Samiria area.

• White-tailed Shrike Lanioturdus torquatus

  This bird occurs in southwestern Angola and northern Namibia. It has black, grey, and white plumage with yellow eyes and searches for insects on the ground and in trees.

• Lesser Egyptian Jerboa Jaculus jaculus

  The lesser Egyptian jerboa is a small rodent that bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night in deserts and semi-deserts.

• American flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber

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

• Mediterranean horseshoe bat Rhinolophus euryale

  A bat of wooded foothills and mountains. It emerges at twilight to hunt moths and other insects.

• Balsas Screech Owl Megascops seductus

  This owl occurs in Mexico’s Balsas River depression. It uses dry forest and thorn scrub and hunts small mammals around night and twilight.

• Fierce Bonneted Bat Eumops ferox

  This bat is recorded in Cuba. Its historical description gives pale-based brown back fur and blackish-brown cheeks and chin. A capture inside a house in Cárdenas has also been reported.

• Chestnut-collared Longspur Calcarius ornatus

  The Chestnut-collared Longspur is a grassland bird whose plumage changes by season. Breeding males show a chestnut nape and black belly, and the birds forage on the ground for insects and seeds.

• Antipodean fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri

  A fur seal breeding around New Zealand and nearby islands. It eats squid and small fish at sea.