Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hammer-headed Fruit Bat Hypsignathus monstrosus

  

  Mature males have a large, square head. The fruit-eating bat lives in central African forests and feeds mainly on figs.

• Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

  

  It breeds in Siberia and eastern Asia and migrates south. Hong Kong records are from autumn passage and winter.

• Little Indian Field Mouse Mus (Mus) booduga

  

  The little Indian field mouse is a small mouse with a gray-brown back and white underside. It is widely recorded in South Asia, but the central Myanmar population may represent a separate species.

• Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler Pachycephala graeffii

  

  The Yellow-throated Fiji Whistler occurs on Fiji's islands. Male breast bands differ among island forms, and a tour account recorded very vocal birds on Taveuni.

• De Brazza’s monkey Cercopithecus neglectus

  

  An African monkey with a white beard that lives in forests near rivers.

• African Pitta Pitta angolensis

  

  Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.

• Wrinkle-faced Bat Centurio senex

  The wrinkle-faced bat has folds of skin around its broad, flat face, giving it a wrinkled look. It is nocturnal and eats fruit.

• Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus

  This forest bird has a grey and green back with vivid orange on the throat and breast.

• Santander dwarf squirrel Microsciurus santanderensis

  The Santander dwarf squirrel is a small forest squirrel from Colombia. Orange and black fur is reported, but taxonomic confusion leaves its ecology poorly known.

• Red-throated Ant Tanager Habia fuscicauda

  This bird occurs in the understory of lowland tropical forest and woodland, often in small groups. It may join army-ant swarms. Males have a small dark mask between eye and bill, while females have a contrasting buff throat. Current eBird uses Driophlox fuscicauda; the AOU account uses Habia fuscicauda.

• Norway lemming Lemmus lemmus

  A small rodent of cold mountains and tundra from Norway toward the Kola Peninsula.

• Lesser cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus

  A cuckoo visiting Japanese mountain forests, where the male’s loud call carries through the trees.

• Strelkov's Long-eared Bat Plecotus strelkovi

  Plecotus strelkovi is a long-eared bat of the dry mountain ranges of Central Asia. The revision describes a gray coat without a warm brown cast and yellowish-white underparts.

• Volcano Swiftlet Aerodramus vulcanorum

  The Volcano Swiftlet is a swiftlet of Java's high mountains. It is seen over volcanic craters and the surrounding montane forest.

• Maxwell’s Duiker Philantomba maxwellii

  Maxwell’s duiker is a small antelope of West African forests and wooded patches in savannah. It stays close to cover and feeds on leaves and fruit.

• Western Rock Nuthatch Sitta neumayer

  The Western Rock Nuthatch forages on cliffs and rock faces and builds a mud nest in a crevice.

• Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx

  The short-nosed fruit bat occurs in Hong Kong woodlands and parks, feeds at night on fruit and nectar, and males make tent-like shelters beneath palm leaves.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Chestnut Rat Niviventer fulvescens

  The chestnut rat uses both the ground and trees. It occurs in forests as well as secondary growth and gardens, and its coat color varies across its range.

• Blue-cheeked Jacamar Galbula cyanicollis

  The Blue-cheeked Jacamar has glossy green upperparts and chestnut underparts, with blue cheeks and crown. In humid lowland forest, it feeds on beetles, wasps, bees, and ants.

• Gorontalo Macaque Macaca nigrescens

  This dark-furred macaque has flat hair on its crown and lives in forests of northern Sulawesi. It eats fruit, other plant matter, and insects.

• Pinyon Jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus

  A blue jay that travels in large flocks, it gathers and caches pinyon pine seeds.

• Davis's Round-eared Bat Lophostoma evotis

  Davis’s Round-eared Bat is recorded in lowlands from southern Mexico to northeastern Honduras. It flies in the forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.

• Costa Rican Pygmy Owl Glaucidium costaricanum

  The Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl occurs in brown and rufous morphs. It waits for prey in the canopy and at edges of wet mountain forest and hunts mainly by day.