Meet the world’s animals.

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• Manicore Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis rondoni

  

  This antbird occurs in central Amazonian Brazil. Its description places the known range between the Aripuanã and Machado river systems.

• 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.

• White-faced Starling Sturnornis albofrontatus

  The White-faced Starling is endemic to Sri Lanka and has a white face with glossy black-green wings. It searches for fruit and nectar high in the canopy of wet forest.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Blyth's Hornbill Rhyticeros plicatus

  The Papuan Hornbill has a black body and white tail. Males have a rufous head and neck, while females are black. It feeds mainly on rainforest fruit and flies high between fruiting trees.

• Davis's Tent-making Bat Uroderma davisi

  A 2026 study recorded one male at Tolapa in Nicaragua's León Department. The individual had clear facial stripes and was captured in an area the study classed among its lowland dry and arid-forest sites.

• Eastern spot-billed duck Anas zonorhyncha

  A duck seen on rivers and ponds across Japan. Its black bill has a yellow tip, and males and females have similar body colours.

• Saola Pseudoryx nghetinhensis

  The saola is a wild relative of cattle that lives in the forests of the Annamite Mountains in Laos and Viet Nam. Both sexes have long horns and white facial markings.

• Brown Tit-Babbler Macronus striaticeps

  This babbler is endemic to the Philippines. The nominate subspecies has black-and-white crown stripes and pale streaks above; the Mindanao survey found it in several kinds of forest.

• Indomalayan Leopoldamys Leopoldamys sabanus

  The Indomalayan Leopoldamys has a dark back, pale belly, and long tail. It is mainly ground-dwelling but can climb, and eats fruit, vegetation, and insects.

• Plain Laughingthrush Pterorhinus davidi

  This laughingthrush inhabits shrubs and low scrub in the mountains and nearby foothill plains of northern and central China. The nominate form is grey-brown and has a bright yellow down-curved bill. Birds answer one another’s calls.

• Madagascan Rousette Rousettus madagascariensis

  The Madagascan rousette is a small fruit bat found only on Madagascar. It is active at night and feeds on fruit and nectar.

• Titicaca Grebe Rollandia microptera

  The Titicaca Grebe is a flightless grebe of high-altitude lakes around Lake Titicaca. In breeding plumage, its yellow-orange bill and white cheeks stand out; it dives for fish in shallow, vegetated water.

• Yellow-pine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus

  The yellow-pine chipmunk occurs in forests and shrublands of western North America. It gathers seeds and other foods on the ground and stores food.

• Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma

  This oropendola ranges through lowlands from Mexico into Central America. Males are about 50 cm and females about 37.5 cm; birds breed in colonies that suspend long, pouch-like nests from branches.

• Drill Mandrillus leucophaeus

  The drill is a close relative of the mandrill. It searches for food on the forest floor and can also climb trees to feed or sleep.

• Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides

  By day it rests on a branch, blending in with the tree; at night it drops to the ground to catch prey.

• Gerbe's Vole Microtus (Terricola) gerbei

  This small vole lives around the Pyrenees. It is found in forest clearings and edges beside subalpine or hay meadows.

• Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis

  The Gray-headed Kite is a raptor with a gray head and white underparts. It soars over forest and takes insects, reptiles, and small birds.

• Escalera's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) escalerai

  This bat occurs mainly across the Iberian Peninsula. Its dorsal fur ranges from brownish to grayish, with a paler underside, long ears, and a pointed tragus. It roosts in caves and mines and is believed to eat insects and spiders.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• Pacific Tent-making Bat Uroderma convexum

  This bat ranges from southern Mexico through Panama to western South America. It has white facial stripes and a white line down the middle of its back. In Panama, it was recorded using tent-like roosts made from modified American oil-palm leaves.

• White-browed Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius aeralatus

  This shrike-babbler ranges from the eastern Himalayas across Southeast Asia to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Male wing-panel colors vary by region.

• Sharpe's grysbok Raphicerus sharpei

  Sharpe's grysbok is a small antelope of eastern and southern Africa. White hairs speckle its reddish-brown coat, and it hides in grass or shrubs during the day.