Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ruddy kingfisher Halcyon coromanda

  

  A kingfisher with a vivid red bill that lives in shady woodland, including woods beside streams.

• Thick-thumbed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) rosseti

  This small bat is known from Cambodia, southern Thailand, and Vietnam. At one Vietnamese site, it was observed flying low over thickets and maize fields while foraging.

• Rufous-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis wagleri

  A loud, long-tailed chachalaca of western Mexico. It occurs in tropical forest and forest edges, often in small groups, and forages on the ground and in trees for fruit.

• Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) jamaicensis

  The Jamaican fruit-eating bat has pale facial stripes and a leaf-shaped noseleaf. It is active at night, eats fruit, and may fold leaves into a tent-like roost.

• White-hooded Babbler Gampsorhynchus rufulus

  The White-hooded Babbler lives along forest edges and in bamboo in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China, moving in noisy groups.

• Goitered Gazelle Gazella subgutturosa

  The goitered gazelle lives in dry grasslands and deserts across a broad area from Central Asia to the Middle East. Its social grouping changes with the season.

• Stripe-breasted Tit Melaniparus fasciiventer

  A large tit of the Albertine Rift's montane forests. Males have a black head and central belly, with a conspicuous white band across the lower breast and flanks.

• Common Pericote Graomys griseoflavus

  The common pericote is a mouse broadly distributed in dry parts of Argentina. It has a gray-yellow back, pale underside, and a long tail ending in a brush-like tuft.

• Hooded Tinamou Nothocercus nigrocapillus

  Its head and upper neck are dusky, its throat is white, and its brown body has whitish specks on the wings and back. It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and usually walks alone on the forest floor.

• Indian Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista philippensis

  The Indian giant flying squirrel lives in tree cavities and canopies, gliding between trees on a membrane that stretches from its forelegs to its hind legs.

• Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris

  This rusty-brown ground bird inhabits arid southern Australia. A 2009 NSW Government determination treated it as a full species separate from the Striated Fieldwren and restricted its NSW range to the far-west arid zone.

• Greater spot-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus nictitans

  The greater spot-nosed monkey is a West and Central African guenon with a conspicuous white spot on its nose and dark fur. It eats fruit and seeds and spends much of its time in trees.

• Large Tree Finch Camarhynchus psittacula

  This finch is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It has a large, deep bill for searching tree bark and leaves for insects and uses habitats from arid coasts to humid forest.

• 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.

• Red-crested Cotinga Ampelion rubrocristatus

  This cotinga ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It has a grey body, dark head, wings, and tail, a brown crest that it rarely raises, bright red eyes, and a white tail band visible in flight.

• Balkan Long-eared Bat Plecotus kolombatovici

  The Balkan long-eared bat has fur on its face and chin. It lives in rocky areas along the Mediterranean and catches moths while flying through confined spaces.

• Brown-chested Barbet Capito brunneipectus

  The Brown-chested Barbet occurs in the forests of Brazil's central Amazon. Regional accounts describe it feeding on fruit and invertebrates in moist forest canopy and nesting in tree cavities.

• Honduran White Bat Ectophylla alba

  This small bat's fur ranges from gray to white. It has a yellow leaf-shaped nose and spends the day in a shelter made from a folded leaf.

• Western Gull Larus occidentalis

  A large gull of the Pacific coast, marked by a dark back, it eats fish and marine invertebrates.

• Sable antelope Hippotragus niger

  An antelope with backward-curving horns and a mane along the neck.

• Polynesian Triller Lalage maculosa

  This cuckooshrike occurs across islands of the southwest Pacific. A Niue regional guide describes it in vegetated habitats, where it searches leaves of trees and shrubs for insects.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• North Moluccan Pitta Erythropitta rufiventris

  This pitta occurs on islands of the North Moluccas. In the nominate form rufiventris, a blue breast band and red underparts are prominent.

• Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel Tamiops swinhoei

  Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel is a diurnal, arboreal squirrel of East Asian forests and gardens. Yellow side stripes and white ear tips help identify it.