Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti

  

  A small brown bird that hides in reedbeds and dense scrub near water. It is difficult to see, but its loud, abrupt song can reveal its presence.

• Cambodian Striped Squirrel Tamiops rodolphii

  Tamiops rodolphii has been recorded in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. It has dark and pale stripes on the back and head and uses the understory and lower canopy.

• Blue-footed booby Sula nebouxii

  A booby with striking blue feet that dives into the sea to catch fish.

• Javan Rusa Rusa timorensis

  A deer recorded in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

• Cachar Wedge-billed Babbler Stachyris roberti

  A babbler of evergreen forests in northeast India and neighboring areas. Its dark brown plumage is spotted white, and it has a strong wedge-shaped bill.

• Antelope Rabbit Lepus callotis

  This jackrabbit lives in high plateau grasslands of southwestern New Mexico and northern and central Mexico. It mainly eats grasses, and its white flanks are a useful field mark.

• Ross's Turaco Tauraco rossae

  This large turaco is 51–54 cm long. It is active by day and eats fruit and flower nectar in African tropical woodlands.

• Zanzibar Red Colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

  The Zanzibar red colobus has a coat of red, black and white. It occurs on islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago off Tanzania and feeds often on young leaves.

• Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis

  A cuckoo that may fan its tail. It searches for insects on the ground and lays eggs in other birds’ nests in Australia.

• Mauritian fruit bat Pteropus niger

  The Mauritian fruit bat is a large fruit-eating bat with golden fur, endemic to Mauritius.

• Laggar Falcon Falco jugger

  A falcon of open, dry country in South Asia. It catches small birds and other prey in flight and sometimes hunts cooperatively with its mate.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Pygmy Drongo Chaetorhynchus papuensis

  The Pygmy Drongo is a sedentary small bird of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults have dark plumage, a blue-violet crest, and a blue sheen.

• Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis

  The black-flanked rock wallaby lives among rocky outcrops in western and south-central Australia. A dark flank stripe and use of rock crevices are characteristic.

• Puerto Rican Woodpecker Melanerpes portoricensis

  This woodpecker is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a black back, white forehead, and red throat and breast, and searches dead trunks and branches for insects.

• Rock Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus intermedius

  The rock pocket mouse is a small rodent of rocky areas in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its back is grey-brown, its underside is white, and its tail has a tuft at the tip.

• Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher Trochocercus cyanomelas

  This flycatcher ranges across eastern and southern Africa. Males have a glossy blue-black crest, throat, and upper breast, with a white lower breast and belly; females have a shorter crest and a mottled gray-and-white breast.

• Paraguayan Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum Thylamys macrurus

  This small opossum is known from eastern Paraguay and adjacent central-western Brazil. Its mid-back is darker, becoming paler toward the flanks and belly.

• Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus

  The Swallow-tailed Bee-eater is a bee-eater with a deeply forked tail. It waits in savanna woodland and catches insects in flight.

• Red-nosed Bearded Saki Chiropotes albinasus

  The red-nosed bearded saki feeds on fruit and nuts in the canopy forests of South America.

• Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita

  Adults have a red bare face and a crest extending from the back of the head down the neck. Their black feathers can shine green or purple, and they live in groups.

• Baluchistan Gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) nanus

  Its upper body is sandy or grayish, its underside is white, and its tail ends in a dark tuft. In Qatar it is recorded widely on gravelly and rocky plains rather than dune sands.

• White-banded Mockingbird Mimus triurus

  The White-banded Mockingbird is marked by a white wing band and a cinnamon-colored rump. It walks through dry scrub and grassland in Argentina while searching for insects and other small prey.

• Southern Yellow Bat Dasypterus ega

  This bat is recorded in the lowlands of Bolivia. Its short, woolly coat is dark gray to cinnamon on the back, with a strongly contrasting belly. It catches insects while flying in open spaces.