Meet the world’s animals.

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• Panamint Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys panamintinus

  

  The Panamint kangaroo rat is nocturnal and ranges from eastern California into western Nevada. It eats seeds on sandy or gravelly ground beneath desert shrubs.

• Giant Wren Campylorhynchus chiapensis

  About 22 cm long, this large wren uses humid forest edges, second growth, and scrub in the Pacific lowlands. By day it forages on the ground for invertebrates.

• Alston's Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) alstoni

  Alston's mouse opossum has a dull gray-brown back. The 2021 revision places the specimens and photographs it could confirm in Costa Rica's central highlands.

• Heard Island Shag Leucocarbo nivalis

  This shag lives on Heard Island. Museum specimens of adults show white cheek plumage extending above the gape. A diet study found that benthic animals, especially polychaetes, were common prey for much of the island population. Clements 2025 includes nivalis as a subspecies of Imperial Shag.

• Golden-faced Saki Pithecia chrysocephala

  The male has golden to reddish-brown fur framing a black face. This saki spends the day in trees and eats fruit and seeds.

• Pohnpei Fantail Rhipidura kubaryi

  This fantail lives on Pohnpei and nearby larger lagoon islands in Micronesia. It moves through forest while fanning or wagging its white-tipped tail.

• Buffy Flower Bat Erophylla sezekorni

  The back is buff to yellow-brown and the underside paler; it eats nectar, fruit, and insects.

• Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris

  A large seabird named for the dark line above its eye. It breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands and catches krill and fish near the sea surface.

• Bornean Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys dorsalis

  A small gymnure from Borneo, recorded in hill and montane forests from about 1,000 m elevation.

• Amazonian Motmot Momotus momota

  The Amazonian Motmot has a green body, orange underparts, a black eye mask, and a blue crown. It sits on forest perches and may wag its tail from side to side.

• Highlands Punaré Thrichomys inermis

  This spiny rat is recorded from Bahia north to Tocantins in Brazil. In the semiarid Caatinga, it uses rock crevices as shelter and nesting places.

• Band-tailed Antbird Hypocnemoides maculicauda

  This small antbird ranges from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and southern Amazonian Brazil. It lives near water in flooded or gallery forest and swamps; males are gray with a black bib and broad white tail tips.

• Meadow Jumping Mouse Zapus hudsonius

  The meadow jumping mouse is a small rodent with long hind feet and a long tail. It favors moist grassland and wetland edges, eats seeds, fruit, and insects, and hibernates in winter.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.

• Waigeo Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus papuensis

  The Waigeo spotted cuscus is an arboreal cuscus from islands west of New Guinea. It lives in forest and eats fruit, leaves, and insects.

• American Black Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani

  The American Black Oystercatcher has a black body, long red bill, and yellow eyes, and searches for shellfish in the intertidal zone.

• 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.

• Dark-eared Honeyeater Myza celebensis

  This honeyeater has fine dark streaks across its brownish plumage and a curved black bill. The sexes look alike in plumage, but males are larger in the Lore Lindu study.

• Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana

  Blanford's fox is a small fox with large ears and a bushy tail. It can also climb among rocky slopes.

• Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula frontalis

  The Grey-cheeked Nunlet ranges from central Panama to northern Colombia in lowland forest. It has a long, slender blue-gray bill, red eye-ring, gray cheeks and chestnut crown, and catches arthropods from branches and leaves in short sallies.

• Hope Porcupine Coendou speratus

  This small, long-tailed porcupine was described from Atlantic Forest on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Its back appears fully spiny because it lacks long dorsal fur, and the quill tips are reddish brown against a dark background.

• Indian Cuckooshrike Coracina macei

  The Indian Cuckooshrike occurs on the Indian peninsula and Sri Lanka. The male described from India has gray upperparts, a dark face mask, and fine gray bars on its white belly.

• European badger Meles meles

  A badger with a sturdy body and conspicuous black-and-white facial markings.

• White-bellied Yuhina Erpornis zantholeuca

  A small forest bird that often joins mixed-species flocks. eBird currently displays it as White-bellied Erpornis, while the pool name is retained here.