Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buff-banded Rail Hypotaenidia philippensis

  

  The Buff-banded Rail is marked by a chestnut-buff breast band and black-and-white barring. In Australia it keeps to cover around wetlands and crops while probing for food in mud.

• Libyan Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) libycus

  The Libyan jird is a rodent of dry areas from North Africa to the Middle East. It has a sandy back and pale feet, and makes burrows near plants.

• Menetries's Warbler Curruca mystacea

  Menetries's Warbler is a small migrant that breeds in scrub in Southwest Asia. In breeding plumage, the male has a dark head while the female is brownish gray.

• Common eland Taurotragus oryx

  A large antelope that lives in grassland and open woodland.

• White-throated Toucan Ramphastos tucanus

  The white-throated toucan is a toucan with a strikingly large bill. It eats fruit and spends time in pairs or flocks in the canopy.

• Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat Murina ussuriensis

  The Ussuri tube-nosed bat is recorded from Hokkaido to Kyushu in Japan. It leaves its roost at dusk to catch flying insects and hibernates in winter.

• White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys

  The White-throated Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid Andean mountain forests. It searches the canopy and the layer below, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus

  This macaque lives in the mountains of Morocco and Algeria and has a very short tail that is barely visible.

• 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.

• White-cheeked Squirrel Prosciurillus leucomus

  The white-cheeked squirrel lives in forests on the northern Sulawesi Peninsula and Lembeh Island. It is active by day, foraging in the canopy for soft fruits and insects.

• Black-capped Tinamou Crypturellus atrocapillus

  This brown tinamou has a round black patch on its crown and red legs. Females have crossbars on the back.

• Brazilian arboreal mouse Rhagomys rufescens

  The Brazilian arboreal mouse was redescribed in a 2004 rediscovery paper based on two specimens. Its lifestyle in that paper includes inferences from morphology rather than direct observations.

• Green Jay Cyanocorax luxuosus

  The jay has a green body, blue crown, black throat and facial markings, and yellow outer tail feathers. Family groups search woodland and scrub for food. This account is scoped to the northern Cyanocorax luxuosus group recognized in the AOS proposal.

• Rusty-bellied Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys (Lophuromys) sikapusi

  The rusty-bellied brush-furred rat is recorded in West Africa. A coastal Guinea study examined whether it may move from forest and orchards into cultivated land seasonally.

• Great Bowerbird Chlamydera nuchalis

  The male builds a large display structure decorated with objects. The species lives in dry woodland of northern Australia.

• Lechwe Kobus leche

  A wetland antelope that grazes while standing in shallow water.

• White-eared Jacamar Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis

  A white patch behind the ear and a rufous breast stand out. It perches in riverside woodland and darts out to catch flying insects.

• Cuban Evening Bat Nycticeius cubanus

  This Cuban bat is described with a short muzzle and thick brown fur. Records include roosts in buildings and wooden streetlight poles.

• Equatorial Antpitta Grallaria saturata

  An Andean antpitta recorded at roughly 2,550–3,650 m. A 2020 study recognized these populations as G. saturata, separate from the G. rufula complex.

• Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta

  A macaque found in northern India, China and Myanmar that uses both trees and the ground.

• Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker Dicaeum retrocinctum

  A flowerpecker distributed in the Philippines. The account’s photograph is from near Sablayan on Mindoro.

• Himalayan Marmot Marmota (Marmota) himalayana

  The Himalayan marmot is a large ground squirrel with a stout body and short tail. It lives in open high-elevation habitats of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

• Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii

  A small bushshrike of eastern Africa, recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. It uses dry savanna and thicket.

• Northern Red-backed Vole Myodes rutilus

  This small vole occurs in northern Europe, Asia, and North America. Its back has a rusty-red cast, and it stores plant and fungal foods in nests for use during winter.