Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sooty Falcon Falco concolor

  

  The Sooty Falcon has long, narrow wings. After breeding, it migrates across eastern Africa to Madagascar for the southern summer.

• Ryukyu Mouse Mus (Mus) caroli

  The Ryukyu mouse has a dark grey back and pale underside. A Taiwan museum record describes it in lowland fields, feeding on seeds and plant roots.

• Yellow-billed Shrike Lanius corvinus

  The Yellow-billed Shrike lives in shrubby habitats across tropical Africa. It has a long tail and yellow bill, and members of a group may help raise the young.

• Visored Bat Sphaeronycteris toxophyllum

  The visored bat is small, with cinnamon-brown fur and fleshy growths on its face. Its behavior is undocumented; one examined stomach resembled yellow fruit pulp, but this single observation does not establish its usual diet.

• White-breasted Whistler Pachycephala lanioides

  The male has a black head and breast band, a rufous nape and white underparts. The female is grey-brown, with dark streaks below. The species occurs along northern Australia's coast and feeds in mangroves and nearby rainforest.

• California Vole Microtus californicus

  The California vole occurs along the Pacific Coast and uses grassy runways and underground burrows. It eats grasses and roots, and its coat varies across its range.

• Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor

  A starling native to the Iberian Peninsula and western Mediterranean. Adults have glossy dark plumage, and bill color and pale feather tips change with season.

• Nilgiri Tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius

  A stocky, goat-like animal of the highlands of southern India.

• Spotted Bowerbird Chlamydera maculata

  This bird has buff-spotted plumage. The male courts by building an avenue-like structure and arranging decorations around it.

• Maroon Langur Presbytis rubicunda

  The maroon langur is a leaf monkey of Borneo and the Karimata Islands. Its coat ranges from reddish brown to golden, and it feeds on forest plants.

• Ground Tit Pseudopodoces humilis

  A small bird that walks across the high grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. It spends much of its time on the ground and nests in burrows.

• Red Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) ruber

  The red myotis has bright cinnamon-red fur on its back and yellowish fur underneath. It is recorded in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, and has been captured in forest and building settings.

• Plain Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus neglectus

  The Plain Leaf Warbler is a small warbler about 9–10 cm long. By day it searches among leaves for small invertebrates; Oman is one location where its calls have been recorded.

• Olympic Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) olympus

  The Olympic marmot lives only in Olympic Mountain meadows. It eats flowering plants, stores fat and hibernates for a long period.

• Equatorial Antpitta Grallaria saturata

  An Andean antpitta recorded at roughly 2,550–3,650 m. A 2020 study recognized these populations as G. saturata, separate from the G. rufula complex.

• Paulina’s Limestone Rat Saxatilomys paulinae

  Paulina’s limestone rat was described from a karst region in Khammouane Province, central Laos. The original account records captures on rocky forested slopes among degraded deciduous forest, scrub and bamboo.

• Dickcissel Spiza americana

  The Dickcissel is a chunky grassland bird. Breeding males have a black V on the yellow chest; flocks can grow large during migration and winter.

• Northern Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat Tonatia bakeri

  Individuals have been captured in premontane forest in eastern Caldas, Colombia. The noseleaf, lower-lip warts, and skin around the mouth are lighter in color, and the dorsal fur is paler and nearly uniform.

• Javan Oriole Oriolus cruentus

  The Javan Oriole is a resident forest bird of Java that feeds on fruit.

• Fulvous Colilargo Oligoryzomys fulvescens

  The fulvous colilargo is a small rodent. A night survey recorded animals moving among ground-level weeds and climbing among the dry leaves of a felled tree.

• Tropical Parula Setophaga pitiayumi

  The Tropical Parula is a small bird widespread across the Americas. Blue-grey and yellow plumage is distinctive, and males have a black facial mask.

• Gerenuk Litocranius walleri

  The gerenuk is a long-necked, long-legged antelope of East Africa. It sometimes stands on its hind legs to reach leaves on shrubs.

• Cozumel Vireo Vireo bairdi

  This resident vireo occurs only on Cozumel Island, Mexico. It has chestnut-toned head and back, a white eye-ring, and two pale wing-bars, and forages in low to middle vegetation.

• Mitered Langur Presbytis mitrata

  Presbytis mitrata is a monkey of southern Sumatra. It feeds mainly on leaves and is arboreal. Its coat varies, so individuals do not all look alike.