Meet the world’s animals.

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• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Udzungwa Red Colobus Piliocolobus gordonorum

  

  The Udzungwa red colobus is found in forests of southwestern Tanzania. A black body contrasts with its red crown and white cheeks and underside; it feeds on leaves and other plant parts.

• Tawny-breasted Honeyeater Xanthotis flaviventer

  

  The Tawny-breasted Honeyeater occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands and in northeastern Australia. It uses forest, mangroves and edges, locally to about 1,500 m.

• Pampas Deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus

  

  A slender, long-legged deer of South American grasslands. In Argentina, current populations remain in limited areas.

• Brown Jacamar Brachygalba lugubris

  

  The Brown Jacamar lives in South American woodland and savanna forest. It has a long pointed bill and a rufous breast.

• Least Sac-winged Bat Balantiopteryx io

  

  This small bat occurs in lowland areas from Mexico into Central America. It mainly roosts in caves, and males have a small pouch in the wing membrane.

• Collared Gnatwren Microbates collaris

  The Collared Gnatwren is a small forest bird with a long bill and a black breast band. It moves quickly through low growth in northern Amazonian forest while searching for insects and other arthropods.

• Spectral Bat Vampyrum spectrum

  A large carnivorous bat of tropical forests in Central America and northern South America.

• Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo

  In breeding plumage, this seabird stands out for white spectacles on its face and red legs. It nests in cliff crevices and dives for fish.

• Trowbridge's Shrew Sorex trowbridgii

  Trowbridge’s shrew tunnels through the forest litter. Its sooty back, paler underside, and long two-toned tail help distinguish it.

• Green Ibis Mesembrinibis cayennensis

  A dark green wader whose plumage can shimmer emerald and bronze in good light. It occurs in lowlands from Central America to northern and eastern South America.

• Bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus

  A forest antelope with pale stripes that shelters in dense undergrowth.

• Indian Golden Oriole Oriolus kundoo

  An oriole of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia that forages in the canopy.

• Smith's Red Rock Hare Pronolagus rupestris

  This hare lives in rocky country. It hides in crevices or beneath rocks by day and feeds on grasses and shrub shoots at night.

• 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.

• Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus

  A large kangaroo from southern Australia that eats grasses and shrubs.

• European Shag Gulosus aristotelis

  The European Shag is a seabird of rocky coasts. It dives after fish, and breeding adults show a raised crest.

• Black Tamarin Saguinus niger

  The black tamarin is a small monkey with golden-brown streaks in its black coat. It moves through the canopy by day, feeding mainly on fruit in family groups.

• East Brazilian Chachalaca Ortalis araucuan

  This chachalaca occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck with a white belly, and uses humid forest and scrubby woodland where it feeds on fruit.

• Black Uakari Cacajao melanocephalus

  The black uakari has a bare black face and lives in forests along rivers in the northern Amazon. Its back color varies between subspecies.

• Fork-tailed Drongo Dicrurus adsimilis

  Sunlight can bring a blue-green sheen to its black plumage, and its long tail is deeply forked. It hunts insects from perches in savanna and open woodland.

• Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) flaviventris

  The yellow-bellied marmot has a yellowish belly and reddish-brown back. Yellowstone National Park's account describes it feeding on plants in rocky grassland and hibernating.

• Pin-striped Tit-Babbler Mixornis gularis

  A small, vocal babbler of lowland forests in Southeast Asia, it forages in small groups from near the ground to the canopy.

• Agile Antechinus Antechinus agilis

  The agile antechinus is a small marsupial of southeastern mainland Australia. It forages around leaf litter and fallen logs, eating insects and small vertebrates.