Meet the world’s animals.

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• Penan Bulbul Alophoixus ruficrissus

  

  This bulbul-family bird is endemic to Borneo. Adults are olive-brown with a conspicuous puffy white throat. It uses lowland and montane forest and feeds on fruit.

• Sonoma Tree Vole Arborimus pomo

  The Sonoma tree vole is arboreal and associated with mature forests. It has a reddish-brown back, gray and rusty tones underneath, and a thick, furred tail.

• Wallacean Drongo Dicrurus densus

  This drongo occurs in the Lesser Sundas and southeastern Moluccas of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. It has glossy blue-black plumage and a long, deeply forked tail.

• Little Brown Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) lucifugus

  The little brown bat is widespread across North America. It hibernates in caves and similar sites in winter, while females gather at summer maternity roosts to raise young.

• Inambari Gnatcatcher Polioptila attenboroughi

  This gnatcatcher is documented in the canopy of western Amazonian forest. Its original description reported specimens and recordings from a small number of sites in Amazonas, Brazil.

• Guadeloupe Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum

  The Guadeloupe big-eyed bat is a large big-eyed bat recorded on islands of the Lesser Antilles. It has white facial and dorsal markings, while detailed natural-history records remain sparse.

• Blue-breasted Fairywren Malurus pulcherrimus

  In the Blue-breasted Fairywren, the deep blue head and breast of mature males stand out. Males forage with family groups in the understory of dry eucalyptus woodlands.

• Weyns's Duiker Cephalophus weynsi

  This small antelope is recorded in forest areas of Central and East Africa. It is brown, with grayish shoulders and no dark back stripe. A small reddish tuft sits on its head.

• Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis

  This tern has a white body, black cap and black bill with a yellow tip. Birds breeding in Britain and Ireland move to the West African coast for winter.

• Mayor's Mouse Mus (Coelomys) mayori

  Mayor's mouse lives in Sri Lankan forests. The lowland subspecies is described as having flattened, spiny dorsal fur and a white underside.

• Compact Weaver Ploceus superciliosus

  This small weaver is about 12 cm long. The account lists moist open grassland and a seed-based diet. Sound recordings include Gwarimpa in Abuja, Nigeria.

• Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus brachyotis

  A fruit-eating bat distributed from South to Southeast Asia. Records from Peninsular Malaysia include forests, gardens, farmland, and mangroves.

• Bates's Nightjar Caprimulgus batesi

  Bates's Nightjar is a forest bird of western and central Africa. Its dark mottled plumage blends into its surroundings, and it hunts insects in dim light.

• Townsend's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus townsendii

  A ground squirrel of grasslands and sagebrush in southeastern Washington. It is gray and unspotted, with reddish coloring beneath its short tail.

• Tablas Fantail Rhipidura sauli

  This fantail is restricted to Tablas Island. The Philippine national fauna red-list account reports it in the understory of lowland forest and second growth, usually below 1,000 m.

• Selangor Silvery Langur Trachypithecus selangorensis

  The Selangor Silvery Langur occurs along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Adults have dark gray fur with a silvery sheen, black facial skin, hands and feet, and long straight gray whiskers. Its classification within the silvered langur group has changed and remains treated differently by some authors.

• Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia

  The Royal Spoonbill is a large white waterbird. It sweeps its black, spoon-shaped bill through shallow water to find fish and shrimp. During breeding, its head crest grows longer.

• Western Amazonian Oryzomys Hylaeamys perenensis

  The western Amazonian oryzomys occurs in the western Amazon Basin. In one Peruvian reserve, it was captured most often in forest, but that local pattern is not assumed to define the species everywhere.

• Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii

  The Bahama Mockingbird is an island bird with gray-brown plumage and dark streaks on the flanks. Its song has varied notes and phrases, but it does not mimic other species.

• Inland Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens balstoni

  The inland broad-nosed bat has a broad, bare muzzle and short, dense fur. It roosts in tree hollows or buildings and catches flying insects over water.

• Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi

  A bird photographed at Lake Manyara in Tanzania in 2017 was recorded as the boehmi form, noted for a dark breast band. The species account summarizes its habitat as acacia woodland, savanna, and open woodland.

• 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.

• Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata

  This finch lives in forests in southwestern Australia. It has a red bill and ear patch and black-and-white spots on the belly.

• Nile Lechwe Kobus megaceros

  An antelope of seasonally flooded wetlands and a capable swimmer.