Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pale-bellied White-eye Zosterops consobrinorum

  

  This white-eye occurs in southeastern Sulawesi. It uses habitats from lowland forest to farms and gardens, foraging in the understorey and canopy in pairs or small groups.

• Brazilian Nectar Bat Lonchophylla mordax

  

  Its back is cinnamon-brown and its underside paler. This Brazilian bat feeds mainly on nectar and is recorded in a limited region where the semiarid Caatinga meets the Atlantic Forest.

• Sira Barbet Capito fitzpatricki

  

  This small barbet is known only from the eastern slope of Peru’s Cerros del Sira. Its description paper reported three localities at 950–1,250 m and mainly describes paired birds foraging in the canopy.

• Günther's Dik-dik Madoqua guentheri

  

  Günther’s dik-dik is a small antelope of the drylands of East Africa. It selects leaves and other plant parts from shrubs and trees.

• Rufous-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula leymebambae

  

  A small antpitta of Andean forests. Its back is brown, with rufous coloring across the chest and sides.

• Particolored Flying Squirrel Hylopetes alboniger

  

  This squirrel glides among trees and uses tree hollows. A Phu Quoc Island survey found four animals—an adult female and male and two young males—in one hollow.

• Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus

  The Dead Sea Sparrow is a small bird with a gray head and brown body. It is found around waterside vegetation, and at some breeding sites it nests in loose colonies.

• Soft Grass Mouse Akodon (Akodon) mollis

  A small rodent broadly distributed across the Andes of Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It occupies varied habitats, including grassland, shrubland, and forest, and eats plant and insect material.

• Tody Motmot Hylomanes momotula

  The Tody Motmot is a small motmot found from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It lives in wet forest and often moves its tail from side to side.

• Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat Nesokia indica

  The short-tailed bandicoot rat prefers moist soil and areas near water, where it digs extensive burrows. The account reports one rat per burrow.

• Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica

  This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.

• Serotine Bat Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) serotinus

  The serotine is a medium-sized bat found across Europe and east through the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, and China. It roosts in crevices and hawks insects over wooded farmland.

• Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona

  The Amazon Kingfisher has a green head and back and a long bill. It dives from a waterside perch to catch fish.

• Mariana Flying Fox Pteropus mariannus

  The Mariana flying fox is a fruit bat with black or brown fur mixed with silver hairs and a golden-looking mantle. It rests in groups in trees during the day.

• Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata

  This bird has buff-spotted plumage. The male courts by building an avenue-like structure and arranging decorations around it.

• Formosan Rock Macaque Macaca cyclopis

  A macaque of Taiwan’s forests. It is mainly arboreal but also searches for food on the ground.

• Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens

  Two birds were recorded foraging in open hillside woodland at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. The reported birds had green backs and wings, white throats, yellow breasts and bellies, and a dark band through the eye.

• Recife Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus recifinus

  This leaf-nosed fruit bat is recorded in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It has contrasting pale stripes on the back and face, and a field report documented leaf tents used as daytime roosts in one forest fragment.

• Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor

  A small hummingbird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes; males have a long pink-violet gorget.

• Oribi Ourebia ourebi

  The oribi is a small antelope with long, slender legs and neck. Its patchy range extends across parts of Africa, mainly in grassland.

• 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-bellied Himalayan Squirrel Dremomys lokriah

  The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel lives in forests around the Himalayas and uses both trees and the ground. Its underside varies among subspecies.

• Leaf-love Phyllastrephus scandens

  Leaf-love is a bulbul found from western to central Africa, where it uses woodland and thickets near water.

• Chaco Marsh Rat Holochilus chacarius

  This rodent uses wetlands and flooded areas in the Chaco. Species-specific accounts report swimming and diving, and grass nests in crops or flooded grassland.