Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager Dubusia taeniata

  

  This mountain tanager has a dull-black central crown and back. The Bogotá guide records it in local forest and describes insects and fruit as food. Following the 2025 split, its range runs from southwestern Venezuela to far northern Peru.

• Black-bearded Flying Fox Pteropus melanopogon

  A colony of black-bearded flying foxes was recorded roosting in mangroves on Pulau Marsegu, off Seram Island, Indonesia.

• Black Robin Petroica traversi

  Endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Black Robin is black in both sexes and active in the lower forest strata. It relies on continuous forest interior and is reluctant to venture into open areas.

• Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus

  A monkey of eastern and southern Africa that forages in groups by day.

• Soft-plumaged Petrel Pterodroma mollis

  This ocean-going petrel has dark gray and white plumage and breeds on subantarctic islands. New Zealand's only known breeding population is on the Antipodes Islands.

• Alexander's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus alexandri

  This small squirrel lives in lowland forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Its back has orange, black, and cream stripes, and it searches for food on trees by day.

• Winding Cisticola Cisticola marginatus

  Cisticola marginatus occurs in western and eastern sub-Saharan Africa. The nominate subspecies in breeding plumage has a rufous crown and dark dorsal streaks.

• Tres Marías Deer Mouse Peromyscus madrensis

  This mouse is known from the Islas Marías off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Its records are tied to islands separated from the mainland.

• Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus

  A small bird of dry, rocky places, with a cinnamon-colored body and a conspicuous white throat.

• Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis (Myotis) myotis

  The greater mouse-eared bat is a large bat found in western, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.

• Giant White-tailed Uromys Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus

  The Giant White-tailed Uromys is a large rat with a gray-brown back, pale underside, and long tail with a white tip. It is active at night, climbs well, and eats fruit, nuts, insects, and other foods.

• Curve-billed Tinamou Nothoprocta curvirostris

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in high Andean grasslands. Its curved bill and rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Spectral Bat Vampyrum spectrum

  A large carnivorous bat of tropical forests in Central America and northern South America.

• Bounty Shag Leucocarbo ranfurlyi

  This seabird breeds only on New Zealand’s Bounty Islands. Adults are black with a blue sheen above and white below, and nest in colonies on cliff ledges.

• Cape Bushbuck Tragelaphus sylvaticus

  A bushbuck studied in KwaZulu-Natal, eastern South Africa. The sexes differ in coat colour, and only males have horns.

• Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia

  The Rock Sparrow is a sparrow found mainly around the Mediterranean. It may gather near mountain villages and grasslands and nests in cavities in rocks or buildings.

• Black-capped Fruit Bat Chironax melanocephalus

  This small bat has a dark head and yellow-to-orange hair on the sides of the neck and shoulders. It is recorded in forests of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Bushy-crested Hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

  A hornbill that lives in groups in Southeast Asian forests. Fruit is its main food, but it also searches the canopy for insects and small animals.

• Upper Guinea Red Colobus Piliocolobus badius

  A red colobus monkey of forests along the Gulf of Guinea. Coat colours and patterns vary among populations.

• Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae

  The Montezuma Quail lives in grasslands and oak woodland in the Mexican highlands and the southwestern United States. It digs in the ground for underground foods and nuts.

• Idaho Ground Squirrel Urocitellus brunneus

  This Idaho ground squirrel occurs in Adams and Valley Counties. It has a reddish-brown back with faint pale spots. Adult males emerge above ground first, followed by females and yearlings, and the animals later enter seasonal hibernation.

• Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides

  This shrike breeds in Central Asia and migrates to Africa for winter. The adult male is marked by a reddish-brown back and tail, a black facial mask, and a white eyebrow.

• Azara's Broad-headed Oryzomys Hylaeamys megacephalus

  Short ochre, yellow or orange fur with dark ticking covers its back, while the underside is gray. It is mainly ground-dwelling and ranges through forested parts of northern and central South America.