Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

  

  This monkey lives in lowland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and eats fruit and leaves.

• White-winged Fairywren Malurus leucopterus

  

  It lives in dry scrub and grassland; breeding males show a conspicuous white wing patch.

• Little Yellow-shouldered Bat Sturnira lilium

  

  A fruit-eating bat studied in Brazil’s montane Atlantic Forest. Its back fur ranges from dark gray to reddish brown, with a paler underside; a study in Brazil's montane Atlantic Forest found a fruit-only diet, mostly Solanaceae.

• Cory's Shearwater Calonectris borealis

  

  A large shearwater that breeds on islands in the eastern Atlantic. After breeding, it winters off South America and southern Africa, returning to colonies in spring.

• Snow Sheep Ovis nivicola

  

  The snow sheep lives in rocky mountains of eastern Siberia. It makes short seasonal movements and eats grasses and lichens.

• Citron-crested Cockatoo Cacatua citrinocristata

  This white cockatoo is restricted to Sumba Island, Indonesia. Its crest and ear-coverts are golden orange, and the iris differs in color between males and females.

• Sri Lankan giant squirrel Ratufa macroura

  A large squirrel of southern India and Sri Lanka, with a grizzled tail marked by pale hairs. It spends almost all its time in trees.

• Chinese Nuthatch Sitta villosa

  The Chinese Nuthatch is a small nuthatch with a blue-grey back and white brow. It lives in temperate forests, mostly in hills, and also eats pine seeds in winter.

• Keen's Mouse Peromyscus keeni

  Peromyscus keeni occurs along the coast from southeastern Alaska through western British Columbia to western Washington. It is recorded in forests and young growth; on small islands, beach logs and rocks provide shelter.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

  An Alpine mouse with limited records in Italy; its ecology is still not well documented.

• Black-and-cinnamon Fantail Rhipidura nigrocinnamomea

  This fantail is endemic to Mindanao in the Philippines. It has a black head with a white eyebrow and cinnamon-colored back and rump. It lives in montane forest, feeds mostly on insects, and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

• Yucatan Yellow Bat Rhogeessa aenea

  This small bat is recorded mainly in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican biodiversity profile describes sex-related ear features and records from forests, farmland, and built-up places.

• Blue Seedeater Amaurospiza concolor

  At El Imposible in El Salvador, this species was reported as almost always associated with vegetative bamboo in the understory. A 2023 study supports treating the South American Andean aequatorialis as a separate species.

• Gray-cheeked Mangabey Lophocebus albigena

  The nominate subspecies of the gray-cheeked mangabey is recorded from Cameroon’s Atlantic coast to central Uganda. It mainly eats fruit, along with leaves, flowers, and animal matter.

• Sahul Cicadabird Coracina tenuirostris

  The Sahul Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre) is the current Clements taxon split from the broad Cicadabird. An adult male was recorded along a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2010.

• Heller's Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus helleri

  This broad-nosed bat is recorded from Mexico through Central America to northern South America west of the Andes. A 2010 revision separated species from the older broad P. helleri complex.

• Principe Starling Lamprotornis ornatus

  This starling is endemic to Príncipe Island. A 1990 survey recorded it in plantations, regenerating forest, and primary forest, with groups high in the canopy.

• Chinkara Gazella bennettii

  The chinkara is a small gazelle of dry parts of South Asia. It can go for a long time without water, an adaptation to arid environments.

• Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis

  A stork with a red face and long yellow bill that forages in shallow African wetlands.

• Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus

  The ochre bush squirrel lives in East African savanna woodland. Its pelage is listed as having no red coloration, and the flanks have no stripe or at most one pale stripe. Detailed ecology is poorly known.

• California Thrasher Toxostoma redivivum

  The California Thrasher is a large thrasher of California chaparral. It searches for food on the ground beneath dense shrubs, sweeping leaf litter with its bill.

• Delicate Laucha Calomys tener

  The delicate laucha ranges across several parts of South America. Specimens reported from Misiones had brown to reddish-brown backs and pale undersides.