Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bay Wren Cantorchilus nigricapillus

  

  A small bird of forest and second-growth edges, ranging from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. Regional forms in Panama differ in breast color and the barring beneath.

• Tana River Mangabey Cercocebus galeritus

  The Tana River mangabey lives only along the lower Tana River in southeastern Kenya, where riverine forest occurs in patches. Its pale gray-brown fur, black face, and white eyebrows stand out. It eats fruits and seeds and sleeps in forks of tall trees.

• Gray Pratincole Glareola cinerea

  The Gray Pratincole catches flying insects on the wing and lives around large rivers in West Africa, where it rests and nests on sandbanks.

• Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus

  This flying-fox has straw-colored fur around the eyes that looks like spectacles. It searches for fruit, nectar, pollen, and leaves at night and roosts in large camps.

• Sri Lanka Bay Owl Phodilus assimilis

  The Sri Lanka Bay Owl is a small nocturnal owl found in forests of southwestern India and Sri Lanka.

• Rock Karroo Rat Myotomys sloggetti

  Myotomys sloggetti lives in high-altitude parts of South Africa and Lesotho. It has a rounded body, short legs and tail, and dense fur. A museum account describes it as strictly diurnal and sun-basking.

• Crested Bunting Emberiza lathami

  This bunting has a conspicuous crest: males are dark, while females show brown streaking. The species ranges from northern India and the Himalayan foothills east through China to northern Indochina, and feeds on seeds.

• Amber Bamboo Bat Tylonycteris fulvida

  This small bat was recorded in bamboo groves in Assam, India. It has golden-brown dorsal fur, a flattened head, and pale pads on its thumbs.

• Southern White-crowned Shrike Eurocephalus anguitimens

  The Southern White-crowned Shrike lives in open acacia and riverine woodland in southern Africa. It searches the ground for invertebrates; a South African field report also describes small groups.

• Davies’s Big-eared Bat Glyphonycteris daviesi

  Davies’s big-eared bat is a relatively large leaf-nosed bat from humid forests of Central and South America. It is the largest species in its genus, but its food habits are not well documented.

• Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei

  Chlorophoneus bocagei inhabits lowland to mid-altitude forest in tropical Africa. Adults have grey upperparts, a white eyebrow, and white underparts with a buff wash on the breast. It gleans insects in the canopy.

• Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus

  This small antelope lives in West African forests. Its specialist account describes it using thickets along forest edges and in clearings.

• Azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyanus

  A long-tailed bird seen mainly in eastern Honshu woods and residential areas in Japan. It lives in flocks throughout the year.

• Colorful Pericote Auliscomys pictus

  The colorful pericote occurs in the high Andes of central and southern Peru and western Bolivia. Its account reports high-elevation grassland and rocky habitats.

• Virginia's Warbler Leiothlypis virginiae

  This small gray warbler has yellow on the chest and undertail. It searches among trees and shrubs in open pinyon-pine and oak woodland in the Southwest.

• Guianan Squirrel Sciurus (Guerlinguetus) aestuans

  A squirrel from the northeastern part of Amazonia, recorded in southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, and the Guianan region.

• Cuban Martin Progne cryptoleuca

  The Cuban Martin catches insects while flying. It uses dry lowland scrub, pasture, farmland, and second-growth woodland, and it also occurs in pine forest.

• Indochinese Gray Langur Trachypithecus crepusculus

  This leaf monkey lives in forests. In a study of one group in an evergreen broadleaf forest in Yunnan, China, the langurs spent most of their time in trees; ground visits included licking rocks.

• Tawny-tufted Toucanet Selenidera nattereri

  The male is a small toucanet with a black head and neck and a golden ear tuft. It feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid forest, alone or in pairs.

• Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto

  The black flying-fox is a large fruit bat found in northern and eastern Australia. Its Japanese name also appears in the Japanese Mammalogical Society’s standard mammal-name list.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Cape York Rat Rattus leucopus

  The Cape York Rat is a small rodent from the Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Australia. A study found it active on the ground at night and nesting communally in burrows.

• Shore Dotterel Thinornis novaeseelandiae

  It is a coastal plover native to New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. Males have a black face and throat with white underparts.

• Yucatan Yellow Bat Rhogeessa aenea

  This small bat is recorded mainly in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican biodiversity profile describes sex-related ear features and records from forests, farmland, and built-up places.