Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-crowned Penduline Tit Remiz coronatus

  

  This small bird is marked by a white crown and a dark facial band. It breeds in Central Asia and moves south for winter.

• Black-footed cat Felis nigripes

  A small cat with tawny fur, dark spots and bands, and black foot pads.

• Rufous Treecreeper Climacteris rufus

  The Rufous Treecreeper ranges through eucalypt forest and shrubland from southwestern Australia to the Eyre Peninsula. It climbs trunks with large feet; a southern jarrah forest study found it foraging and nesting in large eucalypts.

• Greater Long-nosed Fruit Bat Macroglossus sobrinus

  The greater long-nosed fruit bat has a slender snout and feeds on nectar. By visiting flowers, it also helps pollinate wild bananas.

• Long-tailed Cisticola Cisticola angusticauda

  This cisticola inhabits light woodland, savanna, and grassland. A 2023 survey in Kenya's Ruma National Park recorded two birds in non-breeding plumage.

• North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parvus

  A small shrew of North America, recorded in tall grass, brush and fallen logs, and soft soils around wetlands.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

  The Big Free-tailed Bat roosts in rock crevices and eats large moths. It has vertical grooves on its upper lip.

• Timberline Wren Thryorchilus browni

  This wren inhabits the mountains from southern Costa Rica into Panama, using high-elevation bamboo thickets and forest edges.

• Tibetan fox Vulpes ferrilata

  A fox of high grasslands and rocky slopes that eats pikas and other small animals.

• Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis

  This slender raptor has a long tail and white spots on its chest and belly. It glides over open woodland and grassland while searching for prey.

• Blasius's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus blasii

  Blasius’s horseshoe bat roosts in caves and similar shelters and has a distinctive nose shape.

• Northern Red Bishop Euplectes franciscanus

  The Northern Red Bishop changes markedly in the male's breeding plumage. Flocks feed mainly on seeds in wet grasslands and marshes.

• Thomas's Shaggy Bat Centronycteris centralis

  Thomas’s shaggy bat is a rare, long-furred bat found mainly in lowland forests from Central America to Peru. A Costa Rican specimen contained plant hoppers and other insects.

• Dwarf Cuckoo Coccycua pumila

  This small cuckoo has a gray crown, brown back, reddish throat and chest, and cream belly. It feeds mainly on caterpillars.

• White-bellied spider monkey Ateles belzebuth

  A spider monkey of the northeastern Amazon, with long limbs and a gripping tail.

• Striated Babbler Argya earlei

  In northern India's lowlands, this social babbler is usually found in reedbeds, wet grass, and scrub. Fine streaking on crown and back and bright yellow eyes stand out.

• Monjon Petrogale burbidgei

  A small wallaby of rocky areas in northwestern Australia, with mottled fur and a reddish patch around the eye.

• Long-billed Crombec Sylvietta rufescens

  This small, round-bodied bird has a very short tail and a slightly curved, relatively long bill. Its back is grey-brown, while the belly and flanks are cinnamon-buff.

• 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.

• European Herring Gull Larus argentatus

  The European Herring Gull is a large gull commonly seen in Britain and Ireland. Its grey back and pink legs help identify it.

• Pygmy Rock Mouse Petromyscus collinus

  This small rodent lives in rocky dry country in Namibia and southwestern Angola. Adults have gray-brown fur, and rocky outcrops provide places to shelter.

• Black-banded Barbet Psilopogon javensis

  This barbet occurs in forests on Java and Bali. Its green body has yellow, red, and black markings; a short survey in East Java recorded it in a more open part of the canopy.

• Hershkovitz's Marmoset Mico intermedius

  Hershkovitz's marmoset is a small monkey from the Brazilian Amazon.