Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tinkling Shieldbill Peltops montanus

  

  The Tinkling Shieldbill lives in the mountain forests of New Guinea. Its glossy blue-black body has striking white markings and a red rump, and it catches insects from high perches.

• Little Yellow Bat Rhogeessa parvula

  This small bat has yellowish-looking dorsal fur. Records come from Mexico's Pacific coast and the Marías Islands, and roosts include caves and tree hollows.

• Grey-chested Greenlet Hylophilus semicinereus

  This small bird occurs in forests of northern South America and the Amazon region. It uses the canopy, forest borders, and secondary woodland, where it feeds on small insects.

• Altai Zokor Myospalax myospalax

  The Altai zokor is a rodent that digs tunnels and lives underground. It has tiny eyes and powerful forefeet for digging, and it feeds on plant roots and other plant parts.

• Orange-billed Sparrow Arremon aurantiirostris

  A local survey in Colombia recorded it on the forest floor and in the understory, at forest edges, and in bamboo and riverside thickets. Records at the study area reached 1,200 m.

• Sunda Stink Badger Mydaus javanensis

  The Sunda stink badger digs with its strong forefeet and long snout to find insects and worms. It rests underground by day and is active at night.

• White-throated Bushtit Aegithalos niveogularis

  This small Himalayan bird is marked by its white throat. It searches for insects in birch and pine woods and moves in flocks.

• Maule Tuco-tuco Ctenomys maulinus

  The Maule tuco-tuco is a burrowing rodent of Andean grasslands. Its coat ranges from pale brown to olive or dark brown, with pale underparts and white hairs at the tail tip.

• Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii

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

• Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

  A hyena with a mane-like ridge along its back and dark stripes across its coat.

• African Spotted Creeper Salpornis salvadori

  This African bird spirals up trunks in open woodland while searching bark for insects; it has spotted and barred plumage and a thin down-curved bill.

• Fulvous Pocket Gopher Megascapheus fulvus

  This pocket gopher ranges across the western and southwestern United States and Mexico. A specimen obtained by its describer near San Francisco Mountain had reddish-brown upperparts, a whitish underside, and long, flattened foreclaws.

• Cape Verde Swift Apus alexandri

  The Cape Verde Swift is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands and breeds in crevices on cliffs and ravines.

• Asian Long-tailed Porcupine Trichys fasciculata

  The Asian long-tailed porcupine is a small porcupine with short spines on its back. It is active at night in the moist forests of Southeast Asia, walking on the ground and climbing trees.

• Stripe-headed Tanager Spindalis zena

  The Stripe-headed Tanager occurs on Caribbean islands and nearby regions, and males and females differ in plumage.

• Greater Egyptian jerboa Jaculus orientalis

  This North African jerboa bounds on long hind legs. It is active at night and spends the day in burrows dug in sand or clay.

• Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel

  The Lesser Frigatebird is a seabird with long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It ranges over tropical oceans and is recorded as a vagrant in New Zealand.

• Cacomistle Bassariscus sumichrasti

  The cacomistle is a nocturnal, arboreal mammal with a long ringed tail. It ranges from southern Mexico to western Panama.

• Silvery-fronted Tapaculo Scytalopus argentifrons

  The Silvery-fronted Tapaculo occurs from Costa Rica into western Panama, in dense understory of wet montane forest and bamboo.

• Underwood's Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

  Underwood's bonneted bat ranges from the southwestern United States through western Mexico to Central America. Confirmed information about its roosts is limited.

• Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis

  The Spotted Dikkop is a ground-dwelling bird with long legs and yellow eyes. It hunts insects by running, stopping, and jabbing at prey with its bill.

• Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys suillus

  The short-tailed gymnure occurs on Java. A recent taxonomic revision treats it as a Java species and reports seasonal changes in coat color.

• Long-tailed Ground Roller Uratelornis chimaera

  The Long-tailed Ground Roller is a ground-dwelling bird of dry forest in southwestern Madagascar. Its long tail and patterned head are distinctive.

• Chacoan Mara Pediolagus salinicola

  A large rodent of the Chaco, it occurs in Paraguay, southern Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina, in dry scrub and woodland.