Meet the world’s animals.

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• Trilling Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aenobarbus

  

  This small bird lives on Java. The male has chestnut on the forehead and throat, yellow-green upperparts and bold black-and-white wing bars; the female is more rufous and has paler wing bars.

• Great Evening Bat Ia io

  

  The great evening bat is a large Asian bat that roosts in caves. Birds have also been recorded in its diet in northeastern India.

• Spot-winged Falconet Spiziapteryx circumcincta

  

  A small raptor with short wings and a long tail. It occurs in dry and scrubby habitats of southern South America and takes prey ranging from insects to small birds.

• Northern Hog Badger Arctonyx albogularis

  

  A medium-sized hog badger found around the Himalayas and in China and neighboring regions. It digs burrows beside waterways and under boulders.

• Silvery-cheeked hornbill Bycanistes brevis

  

  A forest bird with silvery facial feathers and a large bill.

• Palau Flying Fox Pteropus pelewensis

  

  The Palau Flying Fox has been studied on the Palau Islands. Field work there reported bats roosting in forest and leaving after sunset to feed on fruits, flowers, and other plant foods.

• Orange Bullfinch Pyrrhula aurantiaca

  The male Orange Bullfinch is bright orange across the head and breast. The species lives in northwestern Himalayan forests, where it feeds on buds and berries.

• Big-eared Opossum Didelphis aurita

  The big-eared opossum is a marsupial with bare black ears and a dark line down the middle of its forehead. It is nocturnal and uses both the ground and trees.

• Grey-breasted Babbler Malacopteron albogulare

  This poorly known babbler occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. A 2014 account found many records in lowland peat-swamp and heath forests.

• Black-and-white Langur Presbytis bicolor

  This langur occurs in central Sumatra. Field visits from 2016 to 2022 recorded it in forest and rubber-growing landscapes and documented feeding on rubber-tree and leaves of mango (Mangifera sp.).

• Cretzschmar's Bunting Emberiza caesia

  The male Cretzschmar’s Bunting has a grey head that helps distinguish it from the greener-headed Ortolan Bunting. It is a rare vagrant in Britain.

• Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga commissarisi

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico to Panama. It uses flower nectar as a major food source and also eats soft fruit and insects.

• Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis

  At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.

• Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew Blarina hylophaga

  This stocky shrew has small eyes and ears hidden in its fur. It stays active year-round and searches for food under leaf litter and in the soil.

• Ruwenzori Turaco Gallirex johnstoni

  This turaco occurs in montane forest along the Albertine Rift in East Africa. Its green and violet-blue body contrasts with red flight feathers, and it mainly eats fruit.

• Peters’ Duiker Cephalophus callipygus

  Peters’ duiker is a small antelope of Central African forests. It is diurnal and is recorded in primary, old secondary, and logged forest.

• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

  This cottontail has a grey-brown back, white underside, and black-tipped ears. It hides in brush on western North American mountainsides and riverbanks.

• Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula

  The Common Grackle is a North American bird with a long tail and glossy plumage. It searches for food on lawns and fields and sometimes gathers high in trees.

• Brush-tailed rock-wallaby Petrogale penicillata

  A wallaby with a brush-tipped tail that shelters among rocks.

• Scarlet-rumped Trogon Harpactes duvaucelii

  The Scarlet-rumped Trogon perches low in forests and eats mainly insects. The adult male has a red belly and rump and a blue bill.

• Miller's Saki Pithecia milleri

  Miller’s saki lives in humid forests of southwestern Colombia and northeastern Ecuador and mainly eats seeds and fruit.

• Cape Batis Batis capensis

  This small bird differs in its chest and throat markings between the sexes. Pairs search for insects in forests and dense vegetation.

• Mexican Ground Squirrel Ictidomys mexicanus

  This ground squirrel has rows of white spots along its back. Records from Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in Mexico showed it active during the hottest part of the day.