Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mountain Caracara Phalcoboenus megalopterus

  

  The Mountain Caracara lives in open grasslands of the Andes. It hunts small animals and also feeds on carrion.

• Elegant Oryzomys Euryoryzomys nitidus

  The Elegant Oryzomys is a terrestrial rodent of humid forests in western Amazonia. Its tawny back and tail nearly as long as its body are noted in the species account.

• Superb Pitta Pitta superba

  This pitta is endemic to Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Its glossy black plumage has bright red feathers beneath the tail and pale blue on the upperwing. A 1990 survey observed it calling from forest perches.

• Bechstein's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) bechsteinii

  This long-eared bat occurs in Europe. It uses mature deciduous woodland and tree holes, including old woodpecker holes, for breeding roosts.

• Black-throated Bushtit Aegithalos concinnus

  The Black-throated Bushtit moves in small groups. It eats insects and small mollusks as well as seeds and berries.

• Sandhill Dunnart Sminthopsis psammophila

  The sandhill dunnart is a marsupial of arid Australia. Its back is gray to buff, its underside is white, and its tail has stiff black hairs near the tip. It has been recorded in patches of vegetation on sand dunes and sandplains.

• Costa Rican Brush Finch Arremon costaricensis

  This brush finch lives in forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its 1907 description noted the olive back and yellow wing bend as differences from a close relative.

• Silky Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus

  The silky pocket mouse is a small rodent with soft fur and short ears. It searches for seeds at night and carries them back to its burrow for storage.

• Military Macaw Ara militaris

  This large macaw is mostly green, with a red forehead and blue wings. Its three subspecies are geographically separate, from Mexico through the Andes to Bolivia and Argentina.

• White Bald Uacari Cacajao calvus

  The white bald uacari is a monkey of the upper Amazon region of Brazil. Sparse hair on its head and face makes its red face and pale body fur distinctive.

• Keel-billed Motmot Electron carinatum

  The Keel-billed Motmot is a Central American motmot with a keel-like ridge along the upper bill.

• Trefoil Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus trifoliatus

  The trefoil horseshoe bat is a nocturnal insect-eater of forest understories. Its noseleaf and wing membranes are yellowish brown, and its fur is long and soft.

• White-backed Stilt Himantopus melanurus

  A South American wetland stilt. Adults often show a white crown and a white bar across the upper back. A Brazilian study documented nests made with salt-marsh vegetation, mud, and shells.

• European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis

  The European free-tailed bat occurs around the Mediterranean and in parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. It catches flying insects over mountains and urban areas and roosts in rock crevices, caves, and bridges in both summer and winter.

• Norfolk Gerygone Gerygone modesta

  The Norfolk Gerygone is a small bird endemic to Norfolk Island. Parks Australia's account describes both sexes as dull grey-brown above and whitish below, and notes quick flights among trees.

• Tschudi's Tailless Bat Anoura peruana

  This nectar-feeding bat occurs in the Andes. A 2019 study in the La Paz Valley found pollen and fecal evidence suggesting that it feeds on 14 locally native or cultivated plant species. That evidence comes from one Bolivian valley.

• Club-winged Manakin Machaeropterus deliciosus

  The Club-winged Manakin lives in humid forests of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Males use their wings to make mechanical sounds during display.

• Crowned Shrew Sorex coronatus

  The crowned shrew is a medium-sized shrew with three areas of color on its back, sides, and underside. In northern Iberia, it searches for small invertebrates in forests and open places with moist soil.

• Black-and-white Triller Lalage melanoleuca

  A triller of the Philippines. The source's detailed color description is specifically for a male of the nominate subspecies.

• Eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus

  A rabbit with brown upperparts and a fluffy white tail. Some individuals have a white spot on the forehead. It also lives near people in places such as yards.

• Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker Dicaeum anthonyi

  The Yellow-crowned Flowerpecker is a small flowerpecker of Luzon's mountain forests. Current checklists treat the Mindanao Flame-crowned Flowerpecker as a separate species.

• Formosan Serow Capricornis swinhoei

  A serow native to the mountains of Taiwan that feeds on young leaves and buds.

• Dark-capped Yellow Warbler Iduna natalensis

  The Dark-capped Yellow Warbler occurs in the Afrotropical region and uses scrub and open habitats near freshwater. It is listed at about 13 cm and 10–11 g, and gleans small invertebrates among foliage by day.

• New Holland Pseudomys Pseudomys novaehollandiae

  This small mouse has pale gray-brown fur and pink feet. Its recorded populations are scattered across grassland and woodland in southeastern Australia.