Meet the world’s animals.

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• Serotine Bat Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) serotinus

  

  The serotine is a medium-sized bat found across Europe and east through the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, and China. It roosts in crevices and hawks insects over wooded farmland.

• Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus

  A stork with a large bill and little feathering on its head and neck. In Bangladesh it occurs around shallow wetlands, grassland and farmland.

• Tailed Tailless Bat Anoura caudifer

  Anoura caudifer is a small bat ranging from northern South America through Brazil to northwestern Argentina. It has a long, narrow muzzle and an extendable tongue for taking nectar, and occurs in humid tropical forests.

• Andaman Drongo Dicrurus andamanensis

  The Andaman Drongo is a forest bird of the Andaman Islands. Its glossy black body has a deeply notched tail with curled outer feathers. It moves in groups and catches insects in flight.

• L'Hoest's Monkey Allochrocebus lhoesti

  L'Hoest's monkey is recognizable by its dark coat and white beard. It spends more time on the ground than many monkeys.

• Brown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterus

  This East African barbet occurs in coastal and riverine woodland and savanna. It has a red cap and throat, a brown upper breast, and white lower parts.

• Apennine Chamois Rupicapra ornata

  The Apennine chamois lives in central Italy. It uses high grasslands and steep rocky slopes, descending into valley woodland in winters with heavy snow.

• White-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus candicans

  This nightjar lives in open grasslands from central Brazil to Paraguay. In breeding season males make short display flights with wing sounds; Bolivia has only a few September records from seasonally flooded savanna.

• Dalton's Praomys Praomys daltoni

  A medium-sized mouse described as having a pure-white belly. A survey in western Guinea recorded it in gallery forest and cultivated areas at a small number of sites.

• Knysna Warbler Bradypterus sylvaticus

  This secretive warbler hides in dense grass and scrub. Its plain brown plumage blends into the cover where it searches for spiders and other small invertebrates.

• White-tipped Thomasomys Thomasomys caudivarius

  Thomasomys caudivarius is a mouse of the western Andes from Ecuador to northern Peru. It has soft brown back fur and a long tail with a white tip. It is described as nocturnal and terrestrial, feeding on seeds and insects.

• Eurasian Crag Martin Ptyonoprogne rupestris

  The Eurasian Crag Martin catches flying insects as it moves near cliffs and gorges.

• Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans

  A nocturnal squirrel that glides from tree to tree using a skin membrane between its limbs.

• Song Thrush Turdus philomelos

  A thrush with brown upperparts and a spotted breast that repeats short phrases in its song.

• Cave Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) velifer

  This myotis has a bare patch between the shoulder blades and mainly roosts in caves. Females give birth to one young per year.

• Arfak Robin Heteromyias albispecularis

  The Arfak Robin lives in mountain forests of northwestern New Guinea. Its ash-grey head and white cheeks and throat stand out, and it mainly eats insects.

• Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana

  The Mexican long-tongued bat uses a tongue about one-third of its body length to feed from flowers. It visits night-blooming cactus and agave.

• Aberdare Cisticola Cisticola aberdare

  This small cisticola lives in Kenya’s highland grassland and moorland. It builds a ball-shaped nest among grass tussocks.

• De Brazza’s monkey Cercopithecus neglectus

  An African monkey with a white beard that lives in forests near rivers.

• Vogelkop Bowerbird Amblyornis inornata

  The Vogelkop Bowerbird lives in the mountains of western New Guinea, where males build decorated structures.

• Lowland anoa Bubalus depressicornis

  A small wild buffalo of the forests and wetlands on Sulawesi and Buton, Indonesia.

• Nahan's Francolin Ptilopachus nahani

  Nahan's Partridge is a small brown bird found at only a handful of locations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is known for a red eye ring and for using a locally named “God's tree” to roost and nest.

• Striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius

  A small mouse marked by a dark stripe down its back. It lives in places ranging from grassy fields and farms to woodland.

• Little Bee-eater Merops pusillus

  The Little Bee-eater is a small bee-eater widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It catches flying insects from low perches.