Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fulvous Colilargo Oligoryzomys fulvescens

  

  The fulvous colilargo is a small rodent. A night survey recorded animals moving among ground-level weeds and climbing among the dry leaves of a felled tree.

• Black Caracara Daptrius ater

  Adults are almost entirely black, with a white rump, bright bare facial skin, and bright legs. They use forest edges and rivers and travel in pairs or groups, sometimes near human activity.

• Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel Dremomys lokriah

  The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel lives in forests around the Himalayas and uses both trees and the ground. Its underside varies among subspecies.

• Grey-headed Batis Batis orientalis

  The Grey-headed Batis has a pale grey crown through much of its range. It lives in semi-arid savanna and gleans ants and other insects from leaves.

• Indochinese Woolly Bat Kerivoula dongduongana

  This long-furred bat is recorded in the Annamite Mountains. Its back is dark gray, its underside paler, and it has been reported inside cluttered forest.

• Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker Prionochilus thoracicus

  The male has a black head with a small red crown patch and a yellowish-green back. In peat-swamp and heath forests, at edges, and in coastal vegetation, it eats fruit, insects, and spiders.

• Ricefield Rat Rattus argentiventer

  The ricefield rat uses rice paddies and grasslands in Southeast Asia and eats both plant and animal foods.

• Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus

  A very small duck that uses plant-rich freshwater areas in eastern Queensland, Australia.

• Perote Deermouse Peromyscus bullatus

  The Perote deermouse has tawny upperparts, a pale underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is recorded in a highland basin of central Mexico.

• White-crested Guan Penelope pileata

  This guan lives in humid lowland forests south of the Amazon in Brazil. Its white crest and chestnut neck and breast are distinctive, while detailed records of its behavior and diet remain limited.

• Black Flying Squirrel Aeromys tephromelas

  A nocturnal flying squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. Its coat differs between two subspecies, one mainly black and the other orange-red.

• Red-billed Parrot Pionus sordidus

  This parrot is mostly green, with a blue chest and a red bill. In Ecuador, it feeds on fruit and flowers in the canopy of cloudy forests and nests in tree cavities.

• Black-and-orange Myotis Myotis (Chrysopteron) formosus

  This medium-sized bat has light yellow-brown fur on its back and pale yellow fur underneath. The 2014 review included the Taiwanese population as a subspecies of this species.

• Vogelkop Whistler Pachycephala meyeri

  This whistler is recorded from the Vogelkop mountains of western New Guinea. It occurs in lower montane forest.

• Camiguin Forest Mouse Apomys camiguinensis

  This mouse is recorded from Camiguin Island in the southern Philippines. Its species account describes a russet-brown back with fine dark-and-pale hairs and a pale underside.

• Garden Warbler Sylvia borin

  The Garden Warbler breeds in Europe and migrates south of the Sahara for winter. Its upperparts are brown and its underside is pale.

• Bavarian Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) bavaricus

  This vole has tiny eyes and short ears hidden by its fur. It was rediscovered near Mittenwald, Germany, in 2023.

• Akiapolaau Hemignathus wilsoni

  This endemic Hawaiian honeycreeper lives in montane forest on Hawaiʻi Island. It uses a long curved upper bill and a short lower bill to search branches for insects and larvae.

• Yellow Ground Squirrel Spermophilus fulvus

  The yellow ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel that digs burrows in dry parts of Central Asia.

• Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera

  The Blue-winged Warbler is a small bird with a yellow belly and bluish wings. It searches for insects in shrubland and along forest edges.

• Inland Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens balstoni

  The inland broad-nosed bat has a broad, bare muzzle and short, dense fur. It roosts in tree hollows or buildings and catches flying insects over water.

• Common hill myna Gracula religiosa

  A glossy black bird with conspicuous yellow skin flaps on its head.

• Central Australian Rock Rat Zyzomys pedunculatus

  The central Australian rock rat lives among rocky sites in central Australia. Records describe a thick tail and a diet based mainly on seeds.

• Yellow-bellied Waxbill Coccopygia quartinia

  It has a grey head, olive back, and bright red rump. It clings to grass stalks and flower heads while searching for seeds and small insects.