Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jamaican Vireo Vireo modestus

  

  The Jamaican Vireo is a small, rounded bird with gray-green to olive plumage, a white iris, white wing bars, pale yellow underparts, and bluish-gray legs. It hides in dense vegetation, eats insects and small fruit, and occurs at forest edges and roadsides across elevations in Jamaica.

• Sao Lourenço Punare Thrichomys laurentius

  This rodent occurs in northeastern Brazil. Fecal samples from one Caatinga study site contained mostly plant matter, with more animal fragments in rainy-season collections.

• Yellow-throated Bush Tanager Chlorospingus flavigularis

  This tanager is recorded in humid eastern Andean forests of Peru and Ecuador. The source describes the nominate subspecies.

• Geoffroy's Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) emarginatus

  A medium-sized bat with rusty to reddish-brown fur on its back, paler fur underneath, and a distinctive notch in the ears.

• Silver-throated Bushtit Aegithalos glaucogularis

  This resident species is endemic to China. Around Mount Taishan it occurs from mountain areas to suburban tree cover and moves in flocks through shrubs and small trees.

• Smoky Pocket Gopher Cratogeomys fumosus

  The smoky pocket gopher is a burrowing rodent of the southern Mexican Plateau, where volcanic soils occur. Its large foreclaws help it dig underground.

• Olive Bushshrike Chlorophoneus olivaceus

  The Olive Bushshrike has more than one plumage form. In the common ruddy form, an olive back contrasts with a rufous chest. It searches dense vegetation for insects and small fruits.

• Western Jumping Mouse Zapus princeps

  The western jumping mouse lives in western North America and hops on large hind feet. Its active season is short, and it hibernates through winter.

• Atiu Swiftlet Aerodramus sawtelli

  The Atiu Swiftlet is a small swiftlet endemic to Atiu. It flies over forest, agricultural land and village gardens on the island.

• Peale's Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops aurispinosus

  Peale’s Free-tailed Bat is a Central and South American bat whose fur is usually dark brown but varies in shade. Its biology and distribution remain poorly known.

• Tatama Tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi

  This tapaculo lives in cloud forest in Colombia's western Andes. The original description covers male plumage, and an observation recorded two birds searching for arthropods while walking through leaf litter.

• Eastern Mindanao Gymnure Podogymnura intermedia

  Podogymnura intermedia is a gymnure known from mountain sites in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Long black hairs and golden-tipped hairs give its back golden streaks or speckles.

• Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius

  The Bush Stone-curlew lives in forests and open woodlands on mainland Australia. It walks on long legs and is active at night while searching for food.

• Dusky Antechinus Antechinus swainsonii

  This small marsupial lives in moist forests and dense understory in southeastern Australia. It has dark fur and searches for small invertebrates at night.

• Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata

  The Waved Albatross is a large seabird with a white head and neck, brown-to-gray body plumage, and bluish legs. It nests on the ground on its breeding island and searches the open ocean for fish, squid, and other prey.

• Siberut Langur Presbytis siberu

  This langur is endemic to Siberut Island, Indonesia, and the current MDD treats it as a separate species. It lives in trees and is active by day, though field research dedicated to the species remains limited after its separation from related forms.

• Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola

  The Collared Pratincole flies swiftly and catches insects on the wing in morning and evening flocks. It nests colonially on dry mud near water during breeding.

• King Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus rex

  The king horseshoe bat is recorded from southern China. It has very large ears and darker fur above than below.

• Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus

  The Jackal Buzzard is a large raptor of southern African hills and mountains. Its plumage varies, and it searches for prey from the air or a perch.

• Mexican Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma scopaeum

  This Mexican bat has records along the Pacific side of the country and as far east as Veracruz. It uses dry forest and riparian forest.

• Mishmi Wren-Babbler Spelaeornis badeigularis

  This understory bird is recorded in the Mishmi Hills of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Records include Lohit, Roing, and Hunli, with a 2016 report farther north near Anini.

• Lesser Egyptian Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) gerbillus

  The lesser Egyptian gerbil has sandy to pale orange fur and a long, two-colored tail ending in a tuft. It lives in dry sandy places, where it spends the day in burrows and is active at night.

• Orange-breasted Myzomela Myzomela jugularis

  The Orange-breasted Myzomela is a small, common nectar-feeding bird in Fiji. It also eats spiders and insects and is usually alone or in small groups. Larger gatherings form at flowering trees. On Lakeba in the Lau Group, a field study recorded relatively high nectarivore abundance in coastal coconut plantations.

• São Tomé Shrew Crocidura thomensis

  The São Tomé shrew is known only from São Tomé Island. It has a long snout and large ears, and field observers have seen it feeding in wet places.