Meet the world’s animals.

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• Madagascar Yellowbrow Crossleyia xanthophrys

  

  The Madagascar Yellowbrow is endemic to eastern Madagascar's rainforest. It searches for insects in dense undergrowth, often near the ground.

• Groves' Titi Plecturocebus grovesi

  This titi monkey was described from Mato Grosso, Brazil. The paper notes a grayish back, red-brown underside, and black tail with a pale tip.

• Spotted Jewel-babbler Ptilorrhoa leucosticta

  The Spotted Jewel-babbler lives in montane forest on New Guinea. It walks on the forest floor in search of insects and other small animals.

• Daraina Sportive Lemur Lepilemur milanoii

  The Daraina sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur of northern Madagascar. It rests in tree holes by day.

• Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus

  This longspur breeds in the Arctic and moves to central North American grasslands for winter.

• Red Veld Aethomys Aethomys chrysophilus

  The Red Veld Aethomys has a reddish-brown back and white belly. It is nocturnal and mainly terrestrial, eating mostly plant foods along with insects and other animal matter.

• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus

  The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is a small barbet, marked by a yellow rump and white facial stripes.

• Dun Tube-nosed Bat Murina recondita

  A small tube-nosed bat collected in Taiwan. Its original description reports forest-associated records, mostly below 1,400 m elevation.

• Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita

  The Chatham Albatross breeds on rocky islands in the Chatham Islands. Adults have a dark grey head and a white body.

• Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina

  The common dunnart is a small marsupial of eastern and southern Australia. It searches for insects at night and rests in a nest or shallow burrow by day.

• Black-bellied Gnateater Conopophaga melanogaster

  The Black-bellied Gnateater has a bold white eyebrow and chestnut wings. Males have a black head and underparts, while these areas are gray in females; it forages in dense humid forest understory.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.

• Green Heron Butorides virescens

  This small heron waits motionless for fish in shallow water. It sometimes drops twigs or insects onto the water to lure fish.

• Velvety Fruit-eating Bat Enchisthenes hartii

  This fruit-eating bat ranges across Central and South America. It is often recorded in moist forests, and there are records of it eating small figs.

• Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata

  The Scaled Quail walks in groups through the dry grasslands of the southwestern United States. Its pale-tipped crest and scaly-looking breast and belly stand out.

• Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor

  The pied tamarin is an arboreal monkey from around Manaus in Amazonas, Brazil. It is active by day and has conspicuous white shoulders and chest.

• Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator

  The Piping Hornbill has a black head and wings with white underparts. The account distinguishes three subspecies with differences in the extent of white on the wings and tail. Some taxonomies treat Bycanistes fistulator as a subspecies of the Trumpeter Hornbill.

• Coppery Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus johnstonii

  Johnston's brushtail possum has coppery-red fur and a cream-colored underside. It lives in forests of northeastern Australia and is mainly active in trees at night.

• Beijing Babbler Rhopophilus pekinensis

  The Beijing Babbler is a resident of northern China and North Korea. It has a long tail, a streaked grey-brown back, a white throat, and rusty flanks.

• Red-fronted Gazelle Eudorcas rufifrons

  The red-fronted gazelle has a reddish forehead. This account follows E. rufifrons west of the Nile and keeps eastern related gazelles separate.

• Bluish-fronted Jacamar Galbula cyanescens

  The Bluish-fronted Jacamar has a metallic blue-green crown and rufous underparts. It lives in riverine forest, and its only known nest is a tunnel in a stream bank.

• Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus

  The Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat ranges from South and Southeast Asia through Australia to islands of the western Pacific. It is an insect-eating bat active at night that roosts in tree hollows and rock crevices.

• Elliot's Storm Petrel Oceanites gracilis

  It is dark overall, with white on the rump and center of the belly and a small pale area under the wing. While feeding, it patters across the water with its wings held upright.

• Pampas Fox Lycalopex gymnocercus

  A medium-sized fox of grasslands and other habitats in southern South America, with regional variation in diet and coat color.