Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus

  

  A pigeon-sized hawk with a conspicuous pale eyebrow marking.

• Numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus

  

  A daytime termite hunter with pale bands across its back.

• Band-rumped Storm Petrel Hydrobates castro

  

  The Band-rumped Storm Petrel is a small seabird of waters far from land. It flies low over the sea on long wings and has a white band across its rump.

• Dromedary camel Camelus dromedarius

  

  A dromedary is a one-humped domestic camel. People have long kept it for transport in dry regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

• Caucasian Badger Meles canescens

  

  The Caucasian badger ranges from the Caucasus through Southwest and Central Asia. Its face has broad dark bands over the eyes and ears, with a white band between them.

• North Island Kokako Callaeas wilsoni

  

  The North Island Kokako is endemic to New Zealand's North Island, where it lives in native forest. It has blue-gray plumage and blue wattles, and feeds in trees on fruit, leaves, and insects.

• Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax

  A heron with red eyes and a black-and-gray back, often active from evening onward.

• Common Yellow-toothed Cavy Galea musteloides

  The common yellow-toothed cavy, or cui, is a guinea pig-like rodent from South America. Its coat varies from light to dark brown, and its white underside has a sharp boundary along the flanks. It is most active at dawn and dusk and lives in mixed-sex groups.

• Western Subalpine Warbler Curruca iberiae

  The Western Subalpine Warbler breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and winters in the Sahel south of the Sahara. A 2023 study examined both sexes at a Moroccan oasis used by the Iberian population as a spring stopover.

• Honey badger Mellivora capensis

  A robust mustelid found in parts of Africa and Asia.

• Seal's Sportive Lemur Lepilemur seali

  Seal's sportive lemur has thick, long fur and a pale collar at the neck. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on leaves.

• Cuckoo Roller Leptosomus discolor

  It lives in woodland and forest in Madagascar and the Comoros. Males have iridescent green upperparts, while females are brown above.

• Hooded Crow Corvus cornix

  A crow with a gray body and black head, wings, and tail. It eats carrion and may gather with others at feeding sites.

• Palawan Pangolin Manis culionensis

  The Palawan pangolin has pale yellowish-white scales across its back. A Palawan study found greater use of primary forest among the habitats assessed and reported foraging searches at termite and ant mounds.

• Pale-billed Parrotbill Suthora atrosuperciliaris

  This small parrotbill ranges from the eastern Himalayas into southern China. It forms small groups in bamboo and forest edges and eats seeds and insects.

• House mouse Mus (Mus) musculus

  A small mouse living in houses, farms and cultivated fields.

• Grassland Melomys Melomys burtoni

  The grassland melomys has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside. In a Halmahera survey, it was caught in ground-level traps in secondary growth, including near rivers.

• Rufous Scrubbird Atrichornis rufescens

  The Rufous Scrub-bird forages on the forest floor in damp forests of eastern Australia.

• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata

  A large wader with long legs and a down-curved bill that uses coastal wetlands and grasslands at different times of year.

• Hairy Long-nosed Armadillo Dasypus pilosus

  A Peruvian armadillo with thick reddish hair over its shell, cheeks, and upper forelimbs.

• Rufous-capped Nunlet Nonnula ruficapilla

  This nunlet is recognized by its rufous cap and grey sides of the head. It occurs in humid lowland forest and may remain motionless on a branch for long periods.

• Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis

  The sei whale is a baleen whale found widely in subtropical, temperate and subpolar seas around the world.

• Mendoza Tuco-tuco Ctenomys mendocinus

  This burrowing rodent is recorded in west-central Argentina and the high Andes of Chile, in grasslands and dry scrub.

• Common Newtonia Newtonia brunneicauda

  The Common Newtonia is endemic to Madagascar. It has grey-brown upperparts and pale underparts, and searches forests for small invertebrates.