Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pygmy Longbill Oedistoma pygmaeum

  

  The Pygmy Longbill is a very small bird of New Guinea’s forests. It is active by day and eats both animal and plant matter.

• Ribbon Seal Histriophoca fasciata

  A seal of the North Pacific and southern Arctic Ocean whose mature coat has pale bands around the neck, foreflippers and hips.

• Magellanic Snipe Gallinago magellanica

  This snipe has a slender olive bill and patterned brown plumage. In Chile it is recorded from Atacama to Cape Horn, using wet grassland and waterside vegetation.

• Indian Brown Mongoose Urva fusca

  The Indian brown mongoose is a dark-brown mongoose found in the Western Ghats and parts of Sri Lanka.

• Yellow-bellied Fantail Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus

  In India's Great Himalayan National Park, this fantail is found in mid-elevation forests. It has a yellow belly, olive upperparts, and a white eye-ring. It flicks its tail while moving through the understory and mid-canopy in pursuit of small insects.

• Black Dwarf Porcupine Coendou nycthemera

  The black dwarf porcupine has records from the Amazon region. Its dorsal quill pattern helps distinguish it from similar species, but its range is still poorly defined.

• Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla

  A tiny bird with a brown cap, blue-gray back, and whitish underparts. It lives year-round in mature pine forests of the southeastern United States.

• Berthe's Mouse Lemur Microcebus berthae

  Berthe's mouse lemur is nocturnal and lives in dry deciduous forest in southwestern Madagascar. A dark back stripe and facial markings make it distinctive.

• Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

  A black-and-white bird that wades through shallow water on long legs.

• Perrier's Sifaka Propithecus perrieri

  Perrier’s sifaka is an arboreal lemur with a black coat. It is active by day in small groups and eats mainly leaves, along with flowers and fruit.

• Tawny-breasted Parrot-Finch Erythrura hyperythra

  The Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch is a small finch of mountain bamboo and forest edges.

• Oustalet's Red Colobus Piliocolobus oustaleti

  Its coat color varies by region, with the back and limbs darker than the underside. Groups in Ngotto Forest in the Central African Republic have also been observed feeding on aquatic plants.

• Baird's Sparrow Centronyx bairdii

  Baird’s Sparrow lives in North American grasslands. It has a short tail and a flat head, and runs through grass while looking for food.

• Desert hedgehog Paraechinus aethiopicus

  The desert hedgehog is a hedgehog of dry country, including northwestern Saudi Arabia.

• Dusky-chested Flycatcher Myiozetetes luteiventris

  This flycatcher has a patchy distribution in Amazonia. Peru Aves marks its adult photographs sex unknown; they show a gray head and yellow chest, whose olive streaks can be faint.

• Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae

  A tree-dwelling gibbon with pale fur on its cheeks.

• Ringed Storm Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi

  Ringed Storm Petrels occur offshore along the Humboldt Current on the west coast of South America. A breeding site has also been recorded inland in Chile's Atacama Region, where birds were reported to enter the nesting site at night.

• Pygmy Hog Porcula salvania

  A small wild pig of the tall grasslands of Assam, India.

• Dusky Broadbill Corydon sumatranus

  The Dusky Broadbill is a forest bird of Southeast Asia, with a heavy bill, dark plumage, and a pale throat. It gathers in small groups in the canopy.

• Lowland Ring-tailed Possum Pseudochirulus canescens

  The Lowland Ring-tailed Possum occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Greater Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus rufescens

  This large reed warbler lives in reedbeds. In northeastern Namibia it climbs papyrus stems while searching for insects and small frogs.

• Southern Pocket Gopher Megascapheus umbrinus

  This pocket gopher occurs in Mexico and the southwestern United States. A 1993 New Mexico account describes the local form living mainly in burrow systems and eating plant roots found while digging.

• Little Grassbird Megalurus gramineus

  It occurs in wetlands, swamps, mangroves, and marshes in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. It often stays hidden in dense vegetation while searching for insects and other invertebrates.

• 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.