Meet the world’s animals.

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• Temminck's Seedeater Sporophila falcirostris

  

  This small seedeater has a thick, curved bill; males are gray and females olive-brown. It eats bamboo seeds and moves in response to bamboo seeding.

• Jamaican Fig-eating Bat Ariteus flavescens

  This bat is endemic to Jamaica. It has a shortened snout and white shoulder spots, occurs widely in forests, and roosts in trees.

• White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

  Males stand out for a white throat and orange-red underparts. The species breeds in dry uplands and scrub of Southwest Asia and migrates to East Africa.

• Northern Baja Deermouse Peromyscus fraterculus

  The northern Baja deermouse has cinnamon-rufous dorsal fur flecked with black, with a darker midline and flanks. It is a habitat generalist, recorded from desert scrub and washes to forests and agricultural areas.

• Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

  New Zealand birds of the Australasian Swamphen have a red frontal shield and bill and a deep blue-violet breast. Groups may defend territory and raise young cooperatively.

• Large Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus

  A large fruit-eating bat of Southeast Asia. A tracking study in Malaysia recorded movements across national borders.

• Bush Blackcap Sylvia nigricapillus

  This babbler occurs in South Africa and western Eswatini. It uses montane forest margins and scrub, and some high-altitude populations move downslope in winter.

• Arabian Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) arimalius

  This jird occurs on the Arabian Peninsula. Genetic work leaves some Arabian identifications uncertain.

• Black-necked crane Grus nigricollis

  A crane that breeds in high mountain regions and descends to lower wintering areas.

• Soemmerring's gazelle Nanger soemmerringii

  Soemmerring's gazelle is a gazelle of the dry grasslands and scrub of the Horn of Africa.

• Many-banded Aracari Pteroglossus pluricinctus

  This toucan has a long bill and a banded chest. In northwestern South America it feeds mainly on fruit and nuts, sometimes taking insects, and roosts communally in tree cavities.

• Indochinese Woolly Bat Kerivoula dongduongana

  This long-furred bat is recorded in the Annamite Mountains. Its back is dark gray, its underside paler, and it has been reported inside cluttered forest.

• Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum

  The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.

• Assam Macaque Macaca assamensis

  Its coat varies from golden brown to dark brown, and the fur on its back is dense. It uses both trees and the ground.

• Manchurian Bush Warbler Horornis canturians

  This small bush warbler breeds in East Asia and moves south seasonally. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society account documents it as a winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus madrensis

  The Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel has a pale coat with subdued dark stripes. It lives in high-elevation pine forest in northwestern Mexico, is active by day, and hibernates in winter.

• Highland Tinamou Nothocercus bonapartei

  The Highland Tinamou often remains on the ground during the day. It was recorded in rainforest at about 1,200 m at Cacao Biological Station in Costa Rica.

• Great Stripe-faced Bat Vampyrodes major

  This fruit-eating bat ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. Its back is dark brown, and long hairs fringe the rear edge of its tail membrane.

• Australian Raven Corvus coronoides

  The Australian Raven is a large black corvid with conspicuous white irises.

• Red Hocicudo Oxymycterus rufus

  The Red Hocicudo occurs in grasslands and steppes in Argentina. It has dark-lined brown fur with ochre sides and rump, and feeds on small animals in the soil near waterways.

• Andean Motmot Momotus aequatorialis

  A blue crown, dark eye mask, and long tail with racket-shaped tips make this motmot distinctive. It perches quietly and darts at prey when it spots an opportunity.

• Peters's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus crypturus

  Peters's epauletted fruit bat flies through southern African savanna and riverine forest, feeding on fruit. It travels to fruiting trees at night.

• MacGregor's Bowerbird Amblyornis macgregoriae

  The male MacGregor's Bowerbird has a conspicuous orange head plume. He builds and decorates a bower of sticks to court females. The species lives in mountain forests of central and eastern New Guinea.

• Tristram's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) tristrami

  Tristram’s jird lives in dry steppe from the eastern Mediterranean into the Middle East. Its boundary from a close relative remains debated.