Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ornate Pitta Pitta concinna

  

  The Ornate Pitta occurs on Indonesia’s Lesser Sundas. It is more frequent at forest edges and in selectively logged forest, with striking blue-green and reddish-buff plumage.

• Lesser Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) blythii

  The lesser mouse-eared bat has a narrow, pointed muzzle and brown-grey fur on its back. It hunts insects over warm, open grassland and other open places.

• Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki

  The Red-throated Bee-eater nests in earthen banks near rivers and catches flying insects in social groups.

• Lyle's Flying Fox Pteropus lylei

  Lyle's flying fox is a Southeast Asian bat that roosts in large groups high in trees by day and flies out at night to find fruit and other foods.

• Abdim's Stork Ciconia abdimii

  Abdim's Stork occurs in eastern and southern Africa. It eats insects, and some populations move south after breeding.

• Mentawai Three-striped Squirrel Lariscus obscurus

  The Mentawai three-striped squirrel is restricted to the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra. Its dark back has faint stripes, and it eats seeds, fallen fruit, and arthropods.

• Blyth's Frogmouth Batrachostomus affinis

  Blyth's Frogmouth has plumage ranging from rufous-brown to grey. It hunts insects at night from low perches in lowland and hill forests, including Borneo.

• Dusky Hopping Mouse Notomys fuscus

  This hopping mouse lives in Australian dunes and other dry places. It has large ears, a long tail and hind feet, and a white underside. At night it forages on dunes.

• Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus

  The Yellow-billed Turaco lives in forests of western and central Africa. Its green and blue-violet plumage is striking; it moves along branches and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Dekeyser's Nectar Bat Lonchophylla dekeyseri

  Dekeyser's Nectar Bat is a small bat native to Brazil's Cerrado. It uses nectar and pollen, and a field study also recorded fruit and insect feeding.

• Brown-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon gularis

  This kingfisher occurs in the Philippines. Its brown breast and blue wings stand out, and it takes small animals in open country and along forest edges.

• Long-tailed Vole Microtus longicaudus

  The long-tailed vole ranges across western North America, extending into southwestern Canada and southeastern Alaska.

• Opalton Grasswren Amytornis rowleyi

  The Opalton Grasswren is a grasswren studied around Opalton in central western Queensland. Survey sites include open woodland with spinifex ground cover.

• Grant's gazelle Nanger granti

  A long-legged gazelle with a conspicuous pale rump patch.

• Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris

  This pigeon ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Colombia. Its body is reddish purple, with a browner belly and olive-brown upperparts.

• Zanzibar Red Colobus Piliocolobus kirkii

  The Zanzibar red colobus has a coat of red, black and white. It occurs on islands in the Zanzibar Archipelago off Tanzania and feeds often on young leaves.

• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Zanda funerea

  This large cockatoo has a black body set off by yellow cheek and tail markings. It feeds in flocks in eucalypt woodlands and pine plantations.

• Cape Serotine Laephotis capensis

  The Cape serotine sometimes roosts in the roofs of houses and buildings. Records span arid semi-desert, montane grassland, forest and savanna; it forages at medium height along cluttered edges.

• Black-headed Munia Lonchura malacca

  The Black-headed Munia is a small Asian finch with a dark head and chest and a chestnut back. It gathers in wet grasslands and rice fields to search for seeds.

• 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.

• Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi

  The Northern Royal Albatross has a white body and back, dark upperwings, and feeds mainly on squid.

• 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.

• Arfak Astrapia Astrapia nigra

  The Arfak Astrapia is a bird-of-paradise of montane forest in western New Guinea. The male has iridescent plumage and a long tail; the female is smaller and darker.

• Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor

  The greater stick-nest rat is an Australian rodent that builds large nests from piled sticks.