Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Trembler Cinclocerthia ruficauda

  

  The Brown Trembler inhabits forests of the Lesser Antilles. Its rounded body is rufous-brown, and it searches for food while tossing leaves.

• Finlayson's Squirrel Callosciurus finlaysonii

  Finlayson's squirrel has a wide range of coat colors, including white, red, and black. In its native range it lives in wooded places and spends most of its time in trees.

• Maroon-naped Sunbird Aethopyga guimarasensis

  This small sunbird occurs on Negros, Panay, and Guimaras in the western Visayas of the Philippines. It is recorded in forest and along forest edges; a species-level ecological dataset classifies nectar as its main food niche.

• Long-clawed Mole mouse Geoxus valdivianus

  The long-clawed mole mouse is a small rodent with tiny eyes and ears and long foreclaws. The forest-dwelling nominate form in southern Chile is nocturnal and uses both underground spaces and leaf litter.

• Tanager Finch Oreothraupis arremonops

  This sparrow-like bird occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and north-western Ecuador. In wet cloud-forest undergrowth, pairs or family groups search slowly among leaf litter and mossy logs.

• Lesser Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi

  The lesser long-eared bat is recorded in Victoria, southeastern Australia. It roosts in tree hollows and buildings and has long ears.

• Saddle-billed Stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis

  The Saddle-billed Stork is a large African stork of wetlands. It catches fish and small animals in shallow water.

• Hog-nosed Shrew Rat Hyorhinomys stuempkei

  This rodent was recorded on a mountain in northern Sulawesi. Its nose ends in a flat pink pad with nostrils that face forward. In the 2015 description, all five known specimens were captured on the forest floor at night; stomachs of three contained earthworm remains and other prey.

• Rock Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus andaecola

  This earthcreeper inhabits high Andean steppe in northwestern Argentina. It has a long, slightly curved bill, cinnamon-brown upperparts and a pale eyebrow.

• Recife Broad-nosed Bat Platyrrhinus recifinus

  This leaf-nosed fruit bat is recorded in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It has contrasting pale stripes on the back and face, and a field report documented leaf tents used as daytime roosts in one forest fragment.

• Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens

  This lark inhabits dry shrublands in South Africa. It walks on the ground and searches around shrub bases for seeds, insects, and other food.

• Red-flanked Duiker Cephalophus rufilatus

  This small antelope is recorded along forest–savanna mosaics from the Sahel margin into north-eastern Central Africa. It is reddish-brown, with a dark face mark and a thin tufted tail. The gray back band can vary.

• Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris

  This hummingbird uses its long, downcurved bill to take nectar from large flowers. It lives in forest undergrowth, often near water and nectar plants.

• Lesula Cercopithecus lomamiensis

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

• Banded Parisoma Curruca boehmi

  A bird photographed at Lake Manyara in Tanzania in 2017 was recorded as the boehmi form, noted for a dark breast band. The species account summarizes its habitat as acacia woodland, savanna, and open woodland.

• Spotted Ground Squirrel Xerospermophilus spilosoma

  The spotted ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of dry and open habitats in Texas. It stays near its burrow and is active in early morning and late afternoon.

• Slaty-tailed Trogon Trogon massena

  The Slaty-tailed Trogon is a forest bird with different plumage in males and females. In the Costa Rican account, the male has a green head and back with a red breast and belly, while the female is mostly dark gray.

• Oldfield Deermouse Peromyscus polionotus

  This nocturnal mouse lives in grassland and dunes in the southeastern United States. It digs underground burrows and stores seeds. Coastal animals tend to have paler coats than inland populations.

• Limestone Leaf-warbler Phylloscopus calciatilis

  This leaf-warbler was described from limestone karst mountains in Vietnam and Laos. The paper records it in evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forest.

• Seminole Bat Lasiurus seminolus

  This bat has rich chestnut-brown fur with pale tips. It catches insects in flight at dusk and occurs mainly in the southeastern United States.

• Javan Plover Charadrius javanicus

  It is a small plover recorded in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, with an incomplete white hindneck collar and pale, long legs.

• Australian Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus

  This rat lives in arid Australia. Its numbers can rise after wet periods and then fall as food and water decline.

• Plumbeous Ibis Theristicus caerulescens

  The Plumbeous Ibis is a grey ibis with a long, curved bill. In Argentina it uses wetlands with trees and nests in trees.

• Tri-colored Big-eared Bat Glyphonycteris sylvestris

  The tricolored big-eared bat is a small bat found in the Neotropics. Its back fur has three bands: dark at the base and tip, with a lighter band between them. It is also recorded in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest.