Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hispaniolan Trogon Priotelus roseigaster

  

  The Hispaniolan Trogon is the only trogon on Hispaniola. It has metallic green upperparts, a gray breast, and a red belly.

• Long-winged Sheath-tailed Bat Taphozous (Taphozous) longimanus

  

  This bat ranges from South to Southeast Asia. The nominate Indian subspecies has a tail extending beyond its narrow tail membrane, and caves were recorded as roosts in Sri Lanka.

• Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana

  

  This bowerbird lives in upland tropical rainforest of northeastern Queensland. A Paluma Range study recorded females building nests, incubating eggs, and feeding young.

• Plateau Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ornatus

  

  This kangaroo rat occurs in arid and semi-arid parts of Mexico. Its range forms a narrow belt from southeastern Durango toward southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca.

• Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

  

  A tiny bird with a long tail that searches for food on fine branches.

• Water Opossum Chironectes minimus

  

  The water opossum is a marsupial adapted for swimming. It uses webbed hind feet and a long tail to move through water and catch small aquatic animals.

• Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus proregulus

  Pallas's Leaf Warbler is a tiny bird identified by crown stripes and a yellow rump. It breeds in northern Asia and occurs as far as central China and the Himalayas.

• Allen's Swamp Monkey Allenopithecus nigroviridis

  Allen’s swamp monkey lives in swamp forests in the lowlands of the Congo Basin. It searches for food in trees, on the ground and in shallow water.

• Ashy Woodswallow Artamus fuscus

  This woodswallow ranges from India through Indochina to coastal China and often perches in open areas.

• Indian Long-eared Hedgehog Hemiechinus collaris

  This hedgehog has large ears, a pointed muzzle, and short spines. It is nocturnal and digs burrows.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Common Wallaroo Osphranter robustus

  The common wallaroo is a kangaroo relative that lives among rocky and mountainous areas and open woodlands on mainland Australia.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• Rusty Antechinus Antechinus adustus

  A marsupial with rusty tones in its dark brown fur, it lives in moist upland forests of northeastern Queensland.

• Varied Bunting Passerina versicolor

  The Varied Bunting lives mainly in Mexico, in scrub and streamside thickets. Males are reddish violet, while females and young birds are brown; it searches low in dense vegetation for insects.

• Greater Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris

  The greater hog badger has a long, projecting snout and strong claws for digging.

• Green-backed Becard Pachyramphus viridis

  This becard is recorded rarely or irregularly in Bolivia. Its back and wings are green, and its chest is yellow. It searches for arthropods in semi-humid to wet lowland woodland and forest on lower eastern slopes.

• White-eared Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) leucotis

  The White-eared Cotton Rat was one of five cotton rats compared in a 1971 study. In the captive young studied, growth was rapid until about 40 days of age and then slowed.

• Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga

  Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.

• Common Punaré Thrichomys apereoides

  This spiny rat is known from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Studies report insects and seeds in its diet and suggest it may help disperse some small seeds.

• Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii

  A desert quail whose male has a black belly patch and whose males and females have a dark head plume.

• Montane Javan Niviventer Niviventer lepturus

  The montane Javan niviventer is a rodent of Java's highlands. Its back is described as soft gray-brown, with a white to cream underside.

• Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus

  This tit lives in forests of eastern Africa. Its dark plumage and bright red eye stand out, and it searches branches and leaves for small invertebrates.

• Thomas's Mastiff Bat Molossus currentium

  This molossid bat lives in central and southern South America.