Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cassin's Vireo Vireo cassinii

  

  This small bird breeds in dry, open forests of western North America. Its white eye-ring is conspicuous, and it forages slowly through the lower and middle parts of trees. In winter it may join mixed flocks of woodland birds.

• Sunda leopard cat Prionailurus javanensis

  The Sunda leopard cat is a small wild cat of Southeast Asian islands. Its orange-yellow coat has dark spots, and it hunts mainly small mammals on the ground at night.

• 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.

• Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat Dobsonia minor

  The lesser naked-backed fruit bat is a fruit bat recorded on New Guinea and nearby islands. Its wing membranes are visible across the back; the treatment considers a Sulawesi record uncertain.

• Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians

  This small bush warbler breeds in East Asia and moves south seasonally. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society account documents it as a winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Greater Red Musk Shrew Crocidura flavescens

  The greater red musk shrew is a large shrew of southern Africa, where it uses moist grassland and woodland. It has also been recorded in gardens and near settlements.

• 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.

• Northern Black Mastiff Bat Molossus nigricans

  A large bat found from Mexico through Central America to Panama. Adults occur in both black and red color forms, so the name does not describe every individual.

• Ja River Scrub Warbler Bradypterus grandis

  This large scrub warbler was described from Cameroon. The adult male has dark-brown upperparts with dark spots from throat to chest. A field record from eastern Cameroon documents a male calling beside a wet grassy opening.

• Swift Fox Vulpes velox

  A small fox of the North American grasslands, marked by black patches beside the muzzle and a black tail tip.

• Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha

  The Fairy Pitta is a brightly colored migrant that breeds in Taiwan's low-elevation, damp broadleaf forests in summer. It searches the ground for insects and earthworms.

• Francis's Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus francisi

  Francis's horseshoe bat is a rarely recorded species known from Sabah and Kalimantan on Borneo. The 2015 paper listed six records available at that time.

• Blue-headed Bee-eater Merops muelleri

  This bee-eater has blue-purple plumage with a dark brown back and wings. It catches insects by flying out from a high perch in humid forest. The extent of blue on the head differs between eastern and western parts of its range.

• Caroline Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura semicaudata

  This small brown bat has a tail that passes through the tail membrane. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile for the nominate subspecies describes daytime cave roosting and large roost aggregations reported in Fiji and American Samoa.

• Wood Stork Mycteria americana

  The Wood Stork is a large wetland bird with a white body and black flight feathers. It snaps up fish when they touch its bill underwater.

• Variegated Spider Monkey Ateles hybridus

  The variegated spider monkey lives in forests of northern South America and uses its long limbs and grasping tail to move through the canopy.

• Bornean Frogmouth Batrachostomus mixtus

  The Bornean Frogmouth is a Borneo endemic usually associated with lower montane and montane forest. Lowland records have also been reported at Kubah National Park; one observed male had yellow eyes and long facial bristles.

• Yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus

  A rock-dwelling wallaby of dry regions in Australia.

• Guinea turaco Tauraco persa

  A green bird with a tall crest and a long tail.

• Little Pocket Mouse Perognathus longimembris

  This very small-bodied mouse mainly eats seeds. It is active at night and plugs its burrow entrance during the day.

• Shovel-billed Kingfisher Clytoceyx rex

  A large kingfisher recorded in montane forest of New Guinea. It digs for invertebrates on the forest floor with its stout bill.

• Western Nesomys Nesomys lambertoni

  Lamberton’s forest rat is a rodent recorded in forest on the limestone formations of western Madagascar.

• Sandhill Grasswren Amytornis oweni

  The Sandhill Grasswren is an Australian grasswren. Clements treated it as a species distinct from the related Pilbara Grasswren in 2024 and recognizes subspecies aenigma on the western Eyre Peninsula.

• Illiger's Saddle-back Tamarin Leontocebus illigeri

  This saddle-back tamarin lives in lowland forests of Peru. Its mottled back, black crown, and reddish-orange rump help describe its appearance.