Meet the world’s animals.

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• King of Saxony Bird-of-paradise Pteridophora alberti

  

  This bird-of-paradise lives in the forests of New Guinea’s central mountains. The male raises its long head plumes and displays them during courtship.

• Alcathoe Myotis Myotis (Myotis) alcathoe

  This small whiskered bat is found in damp deciduous woodland, often near water.

• Red-naped Ibis Pseudibis papillosa

  The Red-naped Ibis has a red crown and dark body. In South Asia it may forage in dry grassland or farmland away from wetlands.

• Unstriped ground squirrel Xerus (Xerus) rutilus

  A ground-dwelling squirrel without stripes, it lives in dry grasslands and scrub in East Africa. It forages by day and uses burrows for shelter.

• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus

  The Long-billed Dowitcher probes mud and shallow water with its long bill to find small aquatic animals.

• Shaw's Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) shawi

  This jird is found in North Africa. Coat and skull features vary by region, and its boundary with a close relative is still debated.

• Chiloe Wigeon Mareca sibilatrix

  Males have a green, iridescent head while females are duller; they gather with other ducks in shallow water and rest on grassy banks.

• Leach's Single Leaf Bat Monophyllus redmani

  Leach's single leaf bat has a long muzzle and tongue. It roosts deep inside large, humid caves.

• Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

  The Orchard Oriole is black and russet in the adult male, while the female is yellow-green. It searches foliage for insects, eats fruit, and migrates seasonally.

• Mexican Volcano Mouse Neotomodon alstoni

  The Mexican volcano mouse lives in the highlands of Mexico's Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It walks on the ground and also uses burrows in pine-oak forest.

• Taiwan Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola sonorivox

  This pheasant is endemic to Taiwan and uses hill and mountain woodland, bamboo, and scrub. It is a ground-dwelling bird.

• Defassa waterbuck Kobus defassa

  The Defassa form has a solid white rump patch rather than the white ring of the common waterbuck. At Nechisar in southern Ethiopia, a 2016–17 study recorded mainly grazing, with more browsing in the dry season.

• Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis

  The Red-naped Sapsucker is a North American woodpecker that drills rows of holes in trees to feed on sap.

• Black-cheeked White-nosed Monkey Cercopithecus ascanius

  This monkey is marked by a white nose spot and pale cheek fur on a black face; chestnut fur beneath its tail is another distinctive feature.

• Snares Penguin Eudyptes robustus

  It has a black face and back, white underparts, and a thick orange bill. It breeds only on the Snares Islands; tracked adults moved west in winter.

• Welwitch's bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) welwitschii

  Welwitch's bat has a netlike pattern in its wing membrane. Records are scattered across a broad part of Africa.

• Edwards's Fig Parrot Psittaculirostris edwardsii

  The adult male has red cheeks and throat and a blue-black breast band. Pairs and flocks visit fruiting trees in New Guinea.

• Père David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Sciurotamias) davidianus

  Père David's rock squirrel is a diurnal squirrel of rocky habitats in China. Pale eye-rings are distinctive, and it burrows under rocks and stores seeds.

• Austen's Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni

  Austen's Brown Hornbill lives in closed forest. It eats fruit and small animals, and travels through the canopy in vocal social groups.

• Hamiguitan Batomys Batomys hamiguitan

  The Hamiguitan Batomys is known from Mount Hamiguitan in eastern Mindanao, Philippines. The original survey recorded it in the transition between lowland and montane forest and in primary montane forest.

• Rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata

  A seabird that develops a horn-like projection on its bill during breeding.

• Tree Bat Ardops nichollsi

  The lesser Antillean tree bat has brown fur and a white spot where the wing joins the body. It is thought to roost in woody vegetation on Dominica, but field observations are limited.

• White-lored Tyrannulet Ornithion inerme

  This very small tyrant flycatcher occurs in Amazonian lowlands and on the eastern Andean slopes. Its greyish olive body has a white forehead line between the eyes and pale wing-bars. It searches for tiny insects in mature forest canopy.

• California Red-backed Mouse Myodes californicus

  This vole is recorded along the Pacific coast of northern California and Oregon. It lives among leaf litter and fallen logs in moist forest and searches for fungi at night.