Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rockrunner Achaetops pycnopygius

  

  A small bird centered in west-central Namibia, with a marginal extension into Angola. It forages on the ground, and adults bring arthropods and caterpillars to nestlings.

• White-winged Flying Fox Desmalopex leucopterus

  The white-winged flying fox is a large bat endemic to the Philippines, with pale markings on its wings.

• Snow Goose Anser caerulescens

  A goose with white and blue color forms. North American flocks gather in fields and wetlands during migration and winter.

• Cape Fox Vulpes chama

  A small fox of southern Africa and the smallest member of the dog family.

• Black-breasted Barbet Lybius rolleti

  A bird of woodland and tree-studded country in Central Africa. Males have a black head and breast, a red belly and a white patch on the lower back. It mainly eats fruit.

• Brown Capuchin Cebus brunneus

  It has a long, thick coat, a pale yellowish-grey face and a V-shaped crown patch. It lives in forests in northern Venezuela.

• Orange-breasted Trogon Harpactes oreskios

  The Orange-breasted Trogon lives in forests in Southeast Asia and eats fruit, insects, and other small prey. Males have an orange breast and chestnut back, while females are more muted grey-brown.

• Altai Mountain Weasel Mustela altaica

  The Altai mountain weasel lives in Asian mountain regions. Its coat changes with the seasons, with different back colors in winter and summer.

• Black Stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae

  The Black Stilt is a wader found only in New Zealand. Adults are marked by all-black plumage, long red legs and a thin black bill.

• Crowned lemur Eulemur coronatus

  A lemur of northern Madagascar, recognized by its orange crown-like forehead marking. It is active mainly by day and lives in groups that travel through trees.

• Henderson Crake Zapornia atra

  The Henderson Crake is a small rail of Henderson Island's forest floor. A 1992 study recorded it searching for small land animals by moving leaf litter.

• Bay Cat Catopuma badia

  The Bornean bay cat is a rarely detected wild cat of Borneo’s forests. Records exist, but much about its diet and way of life remains unknown.

• Eastern Striolated Puffbird Nystalus striolatus

  The Eastern Striolated-Puffbird may sit motionless for long periods in the canopy or at the edge of humid forest. Its pale eyes and white chin are distinctive.

• Cuvier's gazelle Gazella cuvieri

  Cuvier's gazelle is a North African gazelle found in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.

• Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis

  A small, long-tailed dove with a reddish-brown breast and belly. In southern Africa it is often seen in pairs or small groups, feeding on seeds on the ground.

• Sika deer Cervus nippon

  The sika deer is native to East Asia, including Japan, and primarily inhabits forests.

• African Jacana Actophilornis africanus

  The African Jacana walks on floating plants with its long toes and forages in wetlands. During breeding, the male incubates the eggs and cares for the chicks.

• Common dwarf mongoose Helogale parvula

  A small mongoose of African grasslands and woodlands.

• Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella ochotensis

  Cornell eBird currently uses Helopsaltes ochotensis for Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler. Locustella ochotensis, used in the pool and the BirdForum account, is an earlier genus combination.

• Sijin Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) sikimaria

  This small pika is recorded in the mountains of Sikkim. Its winter coat is brown, with mixed brown and grey underneath. Surveys in 2010–2014 sampled it in subalpine Rhododendron forest and farmland.

• Orange-bellied Leafbird Chloropsis hardwickii

  The male Orange-bellied Leafbird has a green body, orange underparts and a purplish-blue throat. It feeds on insects and fruit in forest from the Himalaya toward Assam.

• Boyacá Spiny-rat Proechimys chrysaeolus

  Field records for this spiny rat are scarce. One reported juvenile from Colombia was found as prey at an elevation of 810 m.

• Tristram's Storm Petrel Hydrobates tristrami

  Tristram’s Storm-Petrel has long, pointed wings and a notched tail, and glides low over the sea. It nests in island rock recesses and burrows, then ranges widely across the Pacific outside the breeding season.

• Cryptic Myotis Myotis (Myotis) crypticus

  Myotis (Myotis) crypticus is a bat recorded in northern Spain, southern France, Italy, and southeastern Austria. Records place it in mountain areas, and dead trees or abandoned buildings have been reported as roosts.