Meet the world’s animals.

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• Giant Nuthatch Sitta magna

  

  The Giant Nuthatch is notable for a broad black eyestripe and rufous feathers under the tail. It occurs in southern China, Myanmar, and northwestern Thailand, using open hill forest with mature pines.

• Common Sword-nosed Bat Lonchorhina aurita

  The common sword-nosed bat ranges from southern Mexico through Central America into South America. It is found mainly in forests and eats insects.

• Spot-breasted Antvireo Dysithamnus stictothorax

  This antbird relative lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It searches for food in low branches and vine tangles in humid forest. Black spots mark its breast.

• Beach Vole Microtus (Mynomes) breweri

  This vole is known only from Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, an island of about 2.6 km². It lives in sandy grassland.

• Aldabra Drongo Dicrurus aldabranus

  This drongo is endemic to Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. It is black with red eyes and a forked tail, and it also takes terrestrial prey on the islands.

• Lesser Dawn Bat Eonycteris spelaea

  The Lesser Dawn Bat has a long, narrow muzzle and large eyes. It feeds on nectar and pollen and roosts in large colonies in caves and other sheltered places.

• Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

  The Chipping Sparrow is a small North American bird with a conspicuous rufous crown as an adult. It searches for seeds in grassy places with trees and eats many insects during the breeding season.

• Ethiopian Arvicanthis Arvicanthis abyssinicus

  The Ethiopian arvicanthis lives in grasslands of the Ethiopian Highlands. It is active on the ground by day and is thought to feed mainly on plants.

• Madagascar Swamp Warbler Acrocephalus newtoni

  The Madagascar Swamp Warbler feeds on insects while moving among wetland plants. It is widespread on Madagascar, absent from the far north, and less common in the dry south.

• Asian Wild Buffalo Bubalus arnee

  The Asian wild buffalo is a large wild bovine associated with water. Nepal's Red List says it favors low-lying alluvial grassland and riparian forest, feeding mainly on grasses.

• Tawny-throated Dotterel Oreopholus ruficollis

  This dotterel uses open grassland and stony ground in the Andes and elsewhere in South America. Adults have a tawny throat, and the sexes look similar.

• Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

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

• Moustached Puffbird Malacoptila mystacalis

  This puffbird inhabits humid forests from Venezuela into Colombia. It searches for invertebrates in the forest understory and near edges.

• Purple-faced Langur Semnopithecus vetulus

  The purple-faced langur is an arboreal monkey endemic to Sri Lanka. It has a long tail and dark face, and several subspecies occur on the island.

• Gray Thrasher Toxostoma cinereum

  This large thrasher is endemic to Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. Its long tail and spotted breast stand out, and it forages mainly on the ground in cactus desert.

• Mohave Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus mohavensis

  This small ground squirrel lives only in California's western Mojave Desert. It is active by day and spends much of the year underground.

• Cape Parrot Poicephalus robustus

  This large parrot lives in South African mountain forests. It uses its large bill to crack the hard kernels of yellowwood fruit while they are still unripe.

• Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum

  The brown tent-making bat eats fruit and roosts in tents made from leaves. It ranges from western Mexico to southeastern Brazil.

• Bornean Frogmouth Batrachostomus mixtus

  The Bornean Frogmouth is a Borneo endemic usually associated with lower montane and montane forest. Lowland records have also been reported at Kubah National Park; one observed male had yellow eyes and long facial bristles.

• West Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus

  The West Siberian brown lemming is a compact rodent with a short tail. It feeds on tundra plants and makes burrows in the ground or snow.

• Broad-crested Corella Cacatua ducorpsii

  The Broad-crested Corella is a white cockatoo found from forests to areas near people.

• Greater Musky Fruit Bat Ptenochirus jagorii

  This fruit-eating bat is endemic to the Philippines. It feeds in forests and was frequently captured in a lowland forest survey on Mount Makiling, Luzon.

• Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons

  A North American vireo marked by a bright yellow throat and yellow around the eyes.

• Mesic Four-striped Grass Rat Rhabdomys dilectus

  The Mesic Four-striped Grass Rat ranges across southern and eastern Africa. In Mozambique's Chimanimani National Park, it was confirmed in montane grassland above about 1,600 m.