Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ochre-breasted Catbird Ailuroedus stonii

  

  The Hides Ridge field guide places the Ochre-breasted Catbird in lowland forest in southern New Guinea and describes foraging in lower layers and sometimes on the ground. Within its study area, it lists the bird only at Arakubi.

• Sunda Shrew Crocidura monticola

  The Sunda shrew has gray-brown fur on its back and paler fur underneath. Under the current taxonomy cited in the account, it occurs on Java and is found in montane forest.

• Rota bridled white-eye Zosterops rotensis

  The current wild population is known from Rota in the Mariana Islands. It forms small flocks in the forest canopy and searches leaves and branchlets for food.

• Dusky Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) sublineatus

  This small palm squirrel lives in damp forest. It has subdued coloring and faint stripes, and observations in India record it feeding on nectar and fruit.

• Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya

  This flycatcher inhabits dry, open country in western North America. Cinnamon tones wash across its underside, and it sallies from low perches to catch insects.

• Atlantic Forest Hocicudo Oxymycterus dasytrichus

  Oxymycterus dasytrichus is a rodent of eastern Brazil. Its account records it in seasonally flooded forest, moist openings in or near forest, and cultivated fields.

• Black Munia Lonchura stygia

  The Black Munia is a small finch of the southern New Guinea lowlands. Males are almost entirely black, and the species feeds on grass seeds in wetlands and tall grass.

• Pampas Deer Ozotoceros bezoarticus

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

• Ceylon Whistling-Thrush Myophonus blighi

  This bird lives in wet mountain forests of Sri Lanka. Males and females have different plumage, and it looks for food along streams.

• Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudis

  An otter of South America and Trinidad, using rivers, lakes and their banks.

• White-throated Jacamar Brachygalba albogularis

  A jacamar with a white throat and facial markings and a long, pale-yellow bill; it catches flying insects along riverside forest.

• Indian Pygmy Bat Pipistrellus tenuis

  Pipistrellus tenuis occurs in South and Southeast Asia. It is recorded in forests, rural areas, and towns, and uses leafy tree cover and buildings as roosts.

• Elegant Pitta Pitta elegans

  The Elegant Pitta is notable for its blue rump and cinnamon-colored underparts. It occurs on islands from the Lesser Sundas to the Moluccas and eats beetles and small snails.

• Kultarr Antechinomys laniger

  The kultarr is a nocturnal marsupial of Australia's arid and semi-arid regions. It bounds on long hind feet and feeds mainly on insects and spiders.

• Plain-backed Antpitta Grallaria haplonota

  This antpitta forages on the floor of humid montane forest in the northeastern Andes. It has dusky, faintly scaled upperparts and a rufous underside with soft dark blotches.

• California Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys californicus

  The California kangaroo rat has large hind feet for hopping and a long tail. It is active mainly at night and eats seeds and fruit.

• Gorgeous Bushshrike Telophorus viridis

  This bushshrike inhabits thickets in sub-Saharan Africa. Adult males have green upperparts, a red throat and upper breast, and a yellow belly; females have a narrower black breast band. It searches for arthropods in dense vegetation.

• Mitchell's Hopping Mouse Notomys mitchellii

  This small mouse of Australia’s dry country has a sandy to rufous back, white underside, and a dark tail tuft. It uses burrows or fallen timber and eats plant material, seeds, fungi, and insects.

• Rusty-breasted Nunlet Nonnula rubecula

  A small bird of the western Amazon. Its brown body has rusty markings on the throat and breast and a white eye-ring.

• Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Mexico to Panama in Central America. Research published under the older name Artibeus watsoni records it modifying young palm leaves into day roosts.

• Stork-billed Kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis

  The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a large kingfisher with a huge red bill, blue upperparts, and orange-yellow underparts. It watches for prey from waterside perches.

• Guianan Saki Pithecia pithecia

  The Guianan saki is a South American monkey whose males and females have different facial coloring; it spends nearly all its life in trees.

• Nubian Nightjar Caprimulgus nubicus

  The Nubian Nightjar was studied in salt marsh and open country in southern Israel. Its foraging times changed with moonlight, and moths were its main prey.

• Red Goral Naemorhedus baileyi

  The red goral is a goat relative of the eastern Himalaya that shifts elevation within mountain forests as the seasons change.