Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-bellied Titi Plecturocebus caligatus

  

  The Chestnut-bellied Titi is a small Amazon lowland monkey with reddish chestnut fur across its chest and belly.

• Dickinson's Kestrel Falco dickinsoni

  

  A gray kestrel with a pale head, rump, and underwing that stand out in flight. It ranges widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

• Greater grison Galictis vittata

  

  A carnivore with a long, slender body and a pale band dividing its darker underside from its gray back. It hunts small animals near forests and wetlands.

• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• Selous's Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) selousi

  

  This spiny mouse has rufous-brown or coffee-colored upperparts and a white underside. It is recorded on isolated rocky ridges in eastern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.

• Foothill Schiffornis Schiffornis aenea

  

  The Foothill Schiffornis is recorded in montane forest in northeastern Peru along the Andean foothills. Its regional account describes a narrow core area and notes more recent records farther south in Amazonas.

• Golden Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus roxellana

  A monkey of montane forests in central and western China; leaves are a major part of its diet, alongside seeds and fruit.

• Yellow-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum aureolimbatum

  This tiny flowerpecker occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. Its olive-green upperparts and diet of fruit and pollen are notable.

• Ipanema Bat Pygoderma bilabiatum

  This small fruit-eating bat occurs in South America. It has no tail, brown tricolored fur, a short nose, and white patches on its shoulders. Local migration records are kept to the populations where they were documented.

• Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni

  The Long-winged Harrier searches for prey over wetlands and grasslands in South America. Plumage differs by sex, and birds occur in light and dark forms.

• Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

  A bat with a horseshoe-shaped noseleaf; British accounts describe roosts in caves and buildings.

• Red-billed Tyrannulet Zimmerius cinereicapilla

  The Red-billed Tyrannulet lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slopes. It feeds in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Red-bellied Lemur Eulemur rubriventer

  The red-bellied lemur is a diurnal lemur whose facial and belly markings differ between males and females. It eats fruit, flowers, and leaves in eastern Madagascar’s rainforests.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Arabian Sheath-tailed Bat Coleura gallarum

  This small bat is recorded from northeastern Africa and southern Arabia. A museum specimen list records seven females from Ain Hamran Cave in Oman.

• Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata

  A large kingfisher with a black cap, blue back, and red bill. In Hong Kong it is mainly seen at coastal wetlands during passage and winter.

• Piebald Shrew Diplomesodon pulchellus

  A Central Asian desert shrew with a white back patch that prefers damp sand.

• Razorbill Alca torda

  In breeding plumage, this seabird is black above and white below. In Britain and Ireland, it breeds in colonies on coastal cliffs.

• Indian Hedgehog Paraechinus micropus

  The Indian hedgehog lives in dry regions and needs some plant cover for shelter and nest material.

• Ashy Storm Petrel Hydrobates homochroa

  This small seabird uses the cool waters off California. It feeds close to the sea surface and breeds on islands from central California to northern Baja.

• Big Lutrine Opossum Lutreolina crassicaudata

  The big lutrine opossum is a marsupial found in scattered parts of South America. It can swim, but it is not specialized for an aquatic life.

• Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria

  A large gray warbler that breeds in open country from eastern Europe into Asia, it is a rare visitor to Britain, mainly in autumn.

• Black-tufted-ear marmoset Callithrix penicillata

  The black-tufted-ear marmoset is a small monkey recognized by black ear tufts and a white forehead. It is native to southeastern Brazil.

• White-browed Fulvetta Fulvetta vinipectus

  This fulvetta is native to Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. BirdLife describes it as an altitudinal migrant recorded at 2,000–4,400 m.