Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-billed Sicklebill Drepanornis albertisi

  

  Male black-billed sicklebills court by displaying the purple sheen and ornamental feathers on the head. They live in New Guinea's mountain forests and eat mainly insects.

• Sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii

  A wetland antelope adapted to life among swamp vegetation.

• Yellow-throated Honeyeater Nesoptilotis flavicollis

  This honeyeater occurs on Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. It uses forest, scrub, and towns. In a study of one nest, both adults fed the young.

• Crested Rat Lophiomys imhausi

  This East African rodent has fur with white stripes or spots. It is active at night and feeds on fruits and roots.

• Black-and-white Becard Pachyramphus albogriseus

  An integrative taxonomic study separated P. albogriseus from P. salvini, which had been included in the broader Black-and-white Becard. This entry concerns P. albogriseus, found on the eastern Andean slope and in montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.

• Northern Palawan Tree Squirrel Sundasciurus (Aletesciurus) juvencus

  The Northern Palawan tree squirrel is native to Palawan in the southwestern Philippines. Coat color varies, and records include forest as well as landscapes mixed with plantations and grassland.

• Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica

  This seabird forages in waters around Antarctica. Its dark wings have broad white trailing edges, and it gathers at sea and rests on icebergs.

• Formosan Rock Macaque Macaca cyclopis

  A macaque of Taiwan’s forests. It is mainly arboreal but also searches for food on the ground.

• Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus

  This oriole occurs from southern Mexico through Guatemala and El Salvador to Honduras. Its listed habitats include oak-pine scrub, moist montane areas, coffee plantations, and open places.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

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

• Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus

  A white-eye that breeds in northeastern China and southeastern Russia and winters from southern China to northern Southeast Asia. It can gather in huge flocks during migration.

• Northern Serotine Eptesicus (Cnephaeus) nilssonii

  It is recorded in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Its long, dark back fur has golden-yellow tips; the HMW species account describes insect hunting in flight around northern forests and their edges.

• Swahili Sparrow Passer suahelicus

  Adults are grayish brown, with a chestnut-red shoulder and a small white wing-bar. In grassland with some trees and light woodland, they feed mainly on seeds.

• Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus

  A small antelope that lives among rocks and leaps across rocky ground.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Small-eared Colilargo Oligoryzomys microtis

  This small rodent occurs in the Amazon Basin. Its upper fur is yellowish brown with fine black tips, its underside is white, and it is described as terrestrial in lowland rainforest edge habitat.

• Buller's Albatross Thalassarche bulleri

  Buller’s Albatross ranges over seas around New Zealand and takes fish and squid near the surface.

• Ruwenzori Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus ruwenzorii

  The Ruwenzori sun squirrel lives in mountain forests of the Albertine Rift. It uses the lower forest vegetation and eats mainly fruit.

• Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens

  Reddish Egrets occur in a dark, reddish-brown morph and a white morph. They chase fish in shallow water, walking after them and using their wings to cast shadows on the water.

• Drill Mandrillus leucophaeus

  The drill is a close relative of the mandrill. It searches for food on the forest floor and can also climb trees to feed or sleep.

• Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus

  The Banded Quail is a small quail of south-central Mexico. Adults have a short crest and rows of black bars across the underparts.

• Southern African Vlei Rat Otomys irroratus

  The southern African vlei rat lives in wetlands and grasslands in South Africa. It grips grass with its forepaws while feeding and makes runways through vegetation.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Desert Red Bat Lasiurus frantzii

  Desert Red Bats live in North America and eat insects such as moths, flies, cicadas, and ants. Their fluffy amber fur and white shoulder patches are useful identification features.