Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus

  

  A leaf warbler with a pale crown stripe that favors the upper parts of forests.

• Mesopotamian Fat-tailed Opossum Thylamys citellus

  This mouse opossum is recorded in a habitat mosaic in northeastern Argentina. Its taxonomy has been debated.

• Banded Barbet Lybius undatus

  The Banded Barbet has a red forehead and a black head and breast. It occurs in Eritrea and Ethiopia, feeds mainly on fruit—especially figs—and also catches flying insects.

• Roloway Monkey Cercopithecus roloway

  The Roloway monkey lives in groups in mature forests of West Africa. Its gray coat, red rump patch, pale chest fur, and long beard stand out.

• Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus

  The Grey Butcherbird lives in Australian woodlands and urban areas. Adults are black, grey, and white, with a hooked bill; captured prey may be hung up for later.

• Yellow-bellied Weasel Mustela kathiah

  This weasel has dark brown fur on its back and tail and a yellowish belly. It lives in mountain forests and catches small animals such as rodents.

• South Island Oystercatcher Haematopus finschi

  This oystercatcher is striking in black and white, with a long red bill. It occurs at estuaries across New Zealand and moves inland to South Island riverbeds and farmland to breed.

• Caatinga Laucha Calomys expulsus

  The Caatinga Laucha is a vesper mouse from central and northeastern Brazil. It occurs in open grasslands and forest edges in the Cerrado and Caatinga, as well as cultivated fields, and lives on the ground and eats seeds.

• Flores Monarch Symposiachrus sacerdotum

  Flores Monarch is a small bird restricted to Flores Island. It has slate-gray upperparts, clean white underparts, and a black mask across the face. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of forested hills and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Common Desert Long-eared Bat Otonycteris hemprichii

  This large-eared bat occurs from North Africa into the Middle East. A study tracking reproductive females in the Negev Desert found that they mainly roosted in rock cracks.

• Bornean Leafbird Chloropsis kinabaluensis

  This leafbird inhabits mountain forests of Borneo. A 2003 taxonomic review treated Chloropsis kinabaluensis as a distinct species after it had long been included as a subspecies of C. cochinchinensis.

• Red-bellied Marsupial Shrew Phascolosorex doriae

  This marsupial occurs in western New Guinea. It has a dark line along the middle of its back and reddish fur on the underside.

• Pale Batis Batis soror

  The Pale Batis is a small bird of miombo woodland and coastal forest.

• Dulzura Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys simulans

  The Dulzura kangaroo rat ranges from coastal southern California to southern Baja California Sur, Mexico. Reported populations differ in body size across regions and habitats.

• Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana

  The Tawny-browed Owl hunts from trees at night in the Atlantic Forest region.

• White-eared Titi Plecturocebus donacophilus

  The Bolivian titi lives in forests in Bolivia and Brazil. Its long hind legs and tail help it balance as it moves.

• Two-banded Plover Charadrius falklandicus

  This plover occurs in southern South America. Breeding adults have two black bands across the breast.

• Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus sedulus

  The lesser woolly horseshoe bat is recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. Few specimens are known, but it has been reported roosting in a culvert at a Malaysian national park.

• Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris

  A large seabird named for the dark line above its eye. It breeds on Antarctic and subantarctic islands and catches krill and fish near the sea surface.

• Orange-throated Bat Lampronycteris brachyotis

  The orange-throated bat is marked by yellow-orange to reddish fur on its throat and upper chest. It eats insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen, and uses roosts such as hollow trees and caves.

• Palkachupa Cotinga Phibalura boliviana

  The Palkachupa Cotinga is endemic to Bolivia. It has deep yellow plumage with green streaks and bluish-black feather tips.

• Ussuri Shrew Crocidura lasiura

  The Ussuri shrew is a small shrew of Northeast Asia. A study in the Russian Far East found it using a broad range of habitats within forest-steppe, including forest vegetation.

• Macaroni Penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus

  The yellow crest makes the Macaroni Penguin easy to notice. It breeds on sub-Antarctic islands and elsewhere nearby, and feeds on krill and fish at sea.

• Andean Cottontail Sylvilagus andinus

  The Andean cottontail is known from Ecuador's highlands, and a 2022 study confirmed records at several sites in Peru. It has long, soft fur, a reddish rump, and a pale underside.