Meet the world’s animals.

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• Jamaican Spindalis Spindalis nigricephala

  

  This endemic tanager inhabits lowland and mountain forests in Jamaica. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• Nubra Pika Ochotona (Ochotona) nubrica

  

  The Nubra pika lives at high elevations in the Himalayas. It has a gray back, a pale underside, and uses rocky alpine scrub.

• Stripe-chested Antwren Myrmotherula longicauda

  

  The Stripe-chested Antwren is sexually dimorphic and forages in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. It is often associated with bamboo patches; its northern Amazonian occurrence is local.

• Brown Agouti Dasyprocta variegata

  

  This agouti is listed from Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. An Argentine biodiversity profile describes reddish-brown fur flecked with black and records in forest, savanna and cultivated areas near water.

• Black-headed Bee-eater Merops breweri

  

  The Black-headed Bee-eater is marked by a black head and green and cinnamon plumage. It catches insects from an open perch.

• Thick-tailed Pygmy Jerboa Salpingotus (Anguistodontus) crassicauda

  

  This small jerboa has a tail longer than its body and three-toed hind feet. It digs long burrows in sand dunes.

• Chestnut-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus ruficeps

  The Chestnut-crowned Babbler is marked by a chestnut crown and gray facial pattern. It searches for food in small flocks on the ground in dry, open woodland.

• Crest-tailed Mulgara Dasycercus cristicauda

  The crest-tailed mulgara is a small marsupial of arid central Australia. A black tuft marks its tail.

• Sira Barbet Capito fitzpatricki

  This small barbet is known only from the eastern slope of Peru’s Cerros del Sira. Its description paper reported three localities at 950–1,250 m and mainly describes paired birds foraging in the canopy.

• 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.

• Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus

  A wader that probes mud with its long bill. Its plumage changes between breeding and winter, and it moves from northern North American wetlands to coastal wintering areas.

• Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis

  The squirrel glider is a marsupial of eastern Australian forests. It travels between trees using its gliding membrane and is active at night.

• White-bellied Storm Petrel Fregetta grallaria

  The White-bellied Storm Petrel is a small seabird of the open ocean. It glides low over the sea and breeds on the Kermadec Islands and Lord Howe Island in the New Zealand region.

• Southern Spotted Skunk Spilogale angustifrons

  The southern spotted skunk has white stripes and spots against a dark coat. It occurs from southern Mexico, outside the Yucatán Peninsula, south to Costa Rica.

• Lilian's Lovebird Agapornis lilianae

  Lilian's Lovebird is a small green parrot with a white eye ring and red bill. In the wild it lives in flocks and uses woodland near water in southeastern Africa.

• Geoffroy's Cat Leopardus geoffroyi

  A cat of southern South America, living in grassland, scrub, wetlands and woodland.

• Radde's Accentor Prunella ocularis

  Radde's Accentor is a small mountain bird with a white eyebrow and a dark-streaked back. It searches for insects and seeds on the ground.

• Silky Mole-rat Heliophobius argenteocinereus

  The silky mole-rat is a solitary rodent that digs underground burrows. In a Malawi study, its burrowing pattern changed as the soil hardened during the dry season.

• Opalton Grasswren Amytornis rowleyi

  The Opalton Grasswren is a grasswren studied around Opalton in central western Queensland. Survey sites include open woodland with spinifex ground cover.

• Selous's Mongoose Paracynictis selousi

  Selous’s mongoose lives in southern African savanna and woodland and is usually solitary and active at night.

• Lesser flamingo Phoeniconaias minor

  A small flamingo with a long curved neck and slender pink legs, gathering on saline lakes and similar wetlands.

• Bechstein's Myotis Myotis (Myotis) bechsteinii

  This long-eared bat occurs in Europe. It uses mature deciduous woodland and tree holes, including old woodpecker holes, for breeding roosts.

• Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

  The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.

• Kano's Mole Mogera kanoana

  Kano's mole occurs in Taiwan. A revision describes broadleaf forest as its main habitat and records tunnels along mountain trails as well as mounds and surface tunnels in gardens, fields and lawns.