Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ringed Storm Petrel Hydrobates hornbyi

  

  Ringed Storm Petrels occur offshore along the Humboldt Current on the west coast of South America. A breeding site has also been recorded inland in Chile's Atacama Region, where birds were reported to enter the nesting site at night.

• Canyon Bat Parastrellus hesperus

  The canyon bat is a small gray-brown bat of dry western North America. It uses rocky and arid habitats and begins foraging soon after sunset.

• Pere David's Tit Poecile davidi

  Pere David's Tit is a tit of high-elevation forests in China. It has a black head and throat, white cheeks, and bright cinnamon underparts, and is reported from subalpine woodland.

• Formosan Rock Macaque Macaca cyclopis

  A macaque of Taiwan’s forests. It is mainly arboreal but also searches for food on the ground.

• Black Thicket Fantail Rhipidura maculipectus

  This fantail lives in lowland New Guinea and nearby islands. The male is marked by a black head and a narrow white brow.

• Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira tildae

  Tilda Yellow-shouldered Bat is a fruit-eating bat found from northern South America into Brazil and neighboring countries. Its coat varies, and it has ochre shoulder patches and dark fur around the eyes.

• Tawny-faced Gnatwren Microbates cinereiventris

  The Tawny-faced Gnatwren lives in the lower levels of humid forest from Central America to northwestern South America. It forages near the ground and in leaf litter, and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Antelope Rat Tatera indica

  This large gerbil has reddish fur and a black tail tip. It burrows in dry plains and eats plants and insects.

• Capped Heron Pilherodius pileatus

  The Capped Heron is an uncommon but widespread heron of South American lowlands, barely extending into eastern Panama. It is usually seen alone around wetlands, forested ponds, and rivers.

• Neotropical Pygmy Squirrel Sciurillus pusillus

  The Neotropical pygmy squirrel is a very small tree squirrel. It uses the upper canopy of lowland rainforest, with a patchy range.

• 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.

• Norway lemming Lemmus lemmus

  A small rodent of cold mountains and tundra from Norway toward the Kola Peninsula.

• Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila

  The Rusty-barred Owl inhabits Atlantic Forest in southern and southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of Paraguay and Argentina. It is nocturnal and hunts small animals in forest.

• Salt's Dik-dik Madoqua saltiana

  This small antelope occurs in dry areas of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northeastern Sudan. Coat color varies among subspecies, and it browses mainly on acacia.

• Short-tailed Frogmouth Batrachostomus poliolophus

  The Sumatran Frogmouth is a nocturnal bird of mountain forest on Sumatra.

• Eastern Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus rafinesquii

  This North American bat has large ears and brownish-gray fur. It leaves its roost late at night to catch moths and other insects along forest edges and waterways.

• Lemon-spectacled Tanager Chlorothraupis olivacea

  The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.

• Wolf's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus wolfi

  This monkey has a red patch in the middle of its back, a pale belly, and reddish-brown hind legs. It moves through lowland forest canopies in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.

• White-throated Round-eared Bat Lophostoma silvicola

  This leaf-nosed bat ranges through Central America and northern and eastern South America. On Barro Colorado Island in Panama, researchers recorded insect gleaning and males excavating roost cavities in active termite nests.

• Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus

  A large bird with a black body, slim crest, pale bill, and long yellow tail.

• Northern Hopping Mouse Notomys aquilo

  A small hopping mouse with large eyes and ears, a long tail, and strong hind feet. The Australian Government reports it only from Groote Eylandt.

• Ochre-fronted Antpitta Grallaricula ochraceifrons

  The Ochre-fronted Antpitta is a small bird endemic to Peru. Males have an ochre forehead and face, and the species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Mutable Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus mutabilis

  The Mutable Sun Squirrel occurs in forests and savannas of eastern Africa. It is active by day and forages both in trees and on the ground.