Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis amictus

  

  The Red-bearded Bee-eater has long red throat feathers that hang like a beard. It perches in Southeast Asian evergreen forest and waits for flying insects.

• Greater Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus vittatus

  

  Platyrrhinus vittatus is a bat with bright white lines on its face and back. It eats fruit and other foods, and roosts in tree cavities or buildings.

• Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi

  

  The Northern Rockhopper Penguin is a species distinct from the Southern Rockhopper Penguin. It breeds on a small number of islands in the South Atlantic and southern Indian Ocean.

• Mountain Reedbuck Redunca fulvorufula

  

  This antelope lives in dry mountain grasslands. Only males have horns, and grass is its main food.

• Streak-headed Antbird Drymophila striaticeps

  

  The Streak-headed Antbird occurs in forests on the eastern Andean slopes and forages in dense bamboo undergrowth.

• Black-capped Marmot Marmota (Marmota) camtschatica

  

  The black-capped marmot burrows and lives in family groups in cold mountains and tundra, spending much of the year hibernating.

• Large-billed Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus magnirostris

  The Large-billed Leaf Warbler breeds around the Himalayas and winters in dense forests of southern India and Sri Lanka. Its strong bill and long white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Gobi Altai Mountain Vole Alticola (Alticola) barakshin

  The Gobi Altai mountain vole has a brownish-gray back with a rusty tone and a pale belly. It occurs in mountain regions of southern Mongolia and nearby areas.

• Elegant Tit Pardaliparus elegans

  The Elegant Tit lives in Philippine forests and edges, searching among trees for small invertebrates.

• Blick's Arvicanthis Arvicanthis blicki

  Blick’s grass rat is a rodent specialized for Ethiopia’s high-elevation grasslands. Its skull has a downward-twisted snout region and enlarged eye sockets, and records span 2,750–4,050 m.

• Necklaced Barbet Psilopogon auricularis

  This barbet is recorded in the forests of Langbiang World Biosphere Reserve in Lam Dong, Vietnam. It eats mainly fruit and flowers, as well as insects.

• Azorean Bat Nyctalus azoreum

  This bat is endemic to the Azores. A 1993 morphological comparison found it smaller than the related Leisler's bat, and a 2026 study confirmed its presence on Flores.

• Opal-crowned Manakin Lepidothrix iris

  The Opal-crowned Manakin is a manakin of humid forests in Brazil. It is olive green above and yellow green below; males have a whitish-blue crown.

• 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.

• Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis

  A large North American crane with a long neck and legs. It feeds in wetlands and grasslands and gathers in large flocks during migration and winter.

• Kinda Baboon Papio kindae

  The Kinda baboon lives in miombo woodland in south-central Africa. It is smaller and more slender than related baboons, with notably long legs.

• Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius hudsonicus

  This shorebird breeds in Arctic North America and migrates as far south as South America. It searches mud and sand for crabs with its long curved bill.

• Hairy Big-eared Bat Micronycteris (Xenoctenes) hirsuta

  The Hairy Big-eared Bat occurs in Central and South America. At a study site in Ecuador, bats carried prey to their roosts and ate mainly katydids and soft-bodied beetles.

• Fairy Gerygone Gerygone palpebrosa

  The Fairy Gerygone is a small bird about 10–12 cm long. It uses humid forest, riparian woodland and mangroves, gleaning invertebrates from foliage by day.

• Arabian Tahr Arabitragus jayakari

  The Arabian tahr lives in the mountains of eastern Arabia. It has a stocky build and curved horns.

• American Goshawk Astur atricapillus

  This large forest raptor uses mature woodland. Wisconsin’s wildlife agency records it across the northern two-thirds of the state, in mature deciduous, conifer, and mixed forest.

• Boehm's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus boehmi

  Boehm's bush squirrel is a small squirrel with orange and dark side stripes. It moves through trees and eats fruit and insects.

• Philippine Megapode Megapodius cumingii

  This megapode has brown-to-grey plumage and bare red facial skin. In Borneo it searches on the ground and buries eggs in a mound of plant material, where heat from decomposition incubates them.

• Atlantic Forest Rhipidomys Rhipidomys mastacalis

  This small rodent has a head-and-body length of 125–155 mm. It is arboreal and nocturnal, and has been recorded in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest.