Meet the world’s animals.

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• Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni

  

  This seed-eating bird lives in montane forests, including parts of East Africa. It has a conspicuously heavy bill and pale wingbars. The guide notes geographic variation in the pale forehead area and streaking.

• Northern Hopping Mouse Notomys aquilo

  A small hopping mouse with large eyes and ears, a long tail, and strong hind feet. The Australian Government reports it only from Groote Eylandt.

• Kelp Goose Chloephaga hybrida

  Male Kelp Geese are white, while females are dark with bold white bars. They live on rocky marine shores and feed mainly on seaweed.

• Veldkamp's Epauletted Fruit Bat Nanonycteris veldkampii

  This small fruit bat lives across West African forest and savanna zones. Records show seasonal movements north and south as the rains change.

• Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi

  The Red-naped Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon marked by a red patch on the back of its neck. It forages in the canopy and middle storey of Sumba's forests and prefers primary forest at higher elevations.

• Beech Marten Martes foina

  A marten found across much of Europe and Central Asia; many individuals have a pale streak on the chest.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Bushy-tailed Woodrat Neotoma (Teonoma) cinerea

  This rodent of western North America is known for its bushy tail and piles of plant material around its rocky shelters.

• Orange-footed Megapode Megapodius reinwardt

  The Orange-footed Megapode has dark gray plumage, orange legs, and a crest at the back of its head. It uses scrub, rainforest, shores, and city parks, feeding on fallen fruit and seeds and laying eggs in large mounds.

• Pretty-faced Wallaby Notamacropus parryi

  The pretty-faced wallaby is marked by a white cheek stripe and a very long tail. It lives in groups in forests and woodlands of eastern Australia.

• Cuban Gnatcatcher Polioptila lembeyei

  This Cuban endemic lives in coastal scrub. An older specimen account records a fine black line from the eye toward the ear-coverts, bluish-grey upperparts, and ashy-white underparts.

• Chinese Hare Lepus sinensis

  This hare occurs in southeastern China and Taiwan. Its account describes chestnut fur, triangular black ear tips, and records at grassland edges and scrubby hillsides.

• Black-crowned Tchagra Tchagra senegalus

  The black crown and white eyebrow stand out on this tchagra, which occurs widely across sub-Saharan Africa. It uses dry thorn woodland, miombo woodland, and some gardens.

• Gray Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) grisescens

  The gray bat inhabits limestone regions of the Midwestern and southeastern United States. It uses caves as seasonal roosts and catches insects over water.

• Sichuan Grasshopper-warbler Locustella chengi

  This bush warbler was described from central China. In southern Sichuan, it has been recorded in dense low herbs and ferns, forest clearings, sparse secondary forest, and tea plantations.

• Mountain goat Oreamnos americanus

  A white-coated ungulate that lives on steep North American mountains.

• Black Tinamou Tinamus osgoodi

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in humid foothill forest along the eastern Andes. Its known populations are separated, and Colombia also has a recorded population whose classification remains unresolved.

• Fraternal Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) fraterculus

  This fruit-eating bat occurs in western Ecuador and north-central and western Peru. It is especially abundant in dry forests and arid areas, and it also helps disperse seeds.

• Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata

  This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.

• Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes

  The black-shanked douc is a douc langur found in forests of southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. It spends most of its time in trees and feeds mainly on leaves.

• 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.

• Taurus Ground Squirrel Spermophilus taurensis

  The Taurus ground squirrel is restricted to the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. It inhabits montane areas above 1,000 m and is active by day.

• Red-tailed Vanga Calicalicus madagascariensis

  The Red-tailed Vanga is about 13–14 cm long. By day it uses forest, second growth, and brushland in Madagascar and eats invertebrates.

• Black-shouldered Opossum Caluromysiops irrupta

  The black-shouldered opossum is a South American marsupial with dark markings from its shoulders down the forelegs and back, and fur over most of its tail. It is active high in the canopy at night.