Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-billed Spoonbill Platalea flavipes

  

  This white waterbird has a yellow face, spatulate bill, and yellow legs. In shallow water it sweeps its bill from side to side, searching mainly for aquatic insects.

• Flat-faced Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) planirostris

  This fruit-eating bat is widespread in tropical South America. Its pale facial stripes are relatively fine, and figs are among its preferred foods.

• Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

  A shorebird that breeds in North American wetlands and gathers at western salt lakes during migration before travelling to South America. In breeding plumage females are brighter than males, and males raise the young after females leave.

• Rock Vole Microtus chrotorrhinus

  The rock vole has a yellow-orange nose. It uses moist forests and rocky sites and feeds on herbs and leaves.

• Campbell Islands Teal Anas nesiotis

  A small duck of islands south of New Zealand, Campbell Island Teal is wary and mainly active at night.

• Western Yellow-backed Duiker Cephalophus silvicultor

  The western yellow-backed duiker is an antelope of African lowland forests, recognized by the triangular yellow patch on its back.

• Yellow-hooded Blackbird Chrysomus icterocephalus

  A blackbird that nests in freshwater wetlands during the breeding season. Males have glossy black plumage with a yellow head and chest; females are olive-brown with a faded yellow hood.

• Sanje Mangabey Cercocebus sanjei

  The Sanje mangabey is endemic to Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains. The 2024 conservation plan reports it from two separated forest fragments.

• Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata

  Its head and neck are buff-gray, and its body is mottled brown, black, and white. For breeding, it builds a large mound that uses heat from rotting leaf litter to incubate its eggs.

• Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

  The soprano pipistrelle is a small brown bat. After sunset it catches insects while flying near water and woodland.

• Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli

  This sandgrouse feeds on seeds in dry grassland around the Kalahari. Flocks gather at waterholes, and adults carry water to chicks in their belly feathers.

• Kosrae Flying Fox Pteropus ualanus

  The Kosrae flying fox occurs on Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia. The 2020 IUCN assessment reports records from coastal areas to the island’s peaks.

• Chinese Monal Lophophorus lhuysii

  The Chinese Monal lives in the mountains of southwestern China; males have metallic green and purplish plumage.

• Mexican Prairie Dog Cynomys (Cynomys) mexicanus

  The Mexican prairie dog is a squirrel relative that burrows in dry grasslands of northern Mexico. It comes above ground by day and lives in social groups.

• Zebra Woodpecker Meiglyptes tristis

  This small woodpecker has dense black-and-pale bars. Its current native range is limited to Java.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

  An Alpine mouse with limited records in Italy; its ecology is still not well documented.

• Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae

  A penguin that breeds along the Antarctic coast, recognised by a white ring around each eye.

• Sowell's Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli

  This Central American fruit-eating bat has soft gray-brown fur and a small white stripe on its head. It eats fruits including those of Piper plants.

• Moluccan eclectus Eclectus roratus

  A parrot of Indonesia’s Moluccan islands, with striking differences in plumage and bill colour between males and females.

• Achallo Chinchillula sahamae

  Chinchillula sahamae is a medium-sized rodent of the high Andes. It is known for its black, white, and brown pattern and for a report of nesting with its own hair among rocks.

• Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

  On Panay and Negros, this small hornbill stands out by the blue bare skin around the eye and its pale tail with a black tip.

• Western Hartebeest Alcelaphus major

  A large West African hartebeest described with short, slightly glossy fawn-brown fur, dark markings on the legs, and black horns that form a U when viewed from the front.

• Common Guillemot Uria aalge

  The Common Guillemot is a seabird that gathers on coastal cliffs to breed and otherwise lives at sea.

• Toque Macaque Macaca sinica

  A macaque endemic to Sri Lanka; the shape of its crown tuft varies by region.