Meet the world’s animals.
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- Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Photo: Bill Bouton from San Luis Obispo, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 A southern North American bird that uses its long bill to turn leaf litter while searching for insects in dry scrub.
- Visayan spotted deer Rusa alfredi
The Visayan spotted deer is a small deer with pale spots on a dark coat. It is native to a few islands in the central Philippines.
- Blue-throated Motmot Aspatha gularis
The Blue-throated Motmot has a vivid blue throat and a short tail. It lives in mountain forest from southern Mexico into northern Central America.
- Alaska Hare Lepus othus
This hare lives in western Alaska's tundra and changes coat color with the seasons.
- Citreoline Trogon Trogon citreolus
The Citreoline Trogon has a yellow belly and pale eyes. It searches for food from branches in forests of western Mexico.
- Crested Mona Monkey Cercopithecus pogonias
The crowned guenon is notable for its crest of hair and lives mainly in the trees of western Central African forests.
- Karoo Lark Calendulauda albescens
This lark inhabits dry shrublands in South Africa. It walks on the ground and searches around shrub bases for seeds, insects, and other food.
- Sierra Madre Occidental Pocket Gopher Megascapheus sheldoni
The Sierra Madre Occidental pocket gopher is a rodent of the highlands of western Mexico. It inhabits high-elevation pine-oak forests and ranges from northwestern Chihuahua through Durango to western Zacatecas and northeastern Nayarit.
- Speckle-fronted Weaver Sporopipes frontalis
The Speckle-fronted Weaver is a small bird marked by a black, white-speckled crown and a chestnut nape. It feeds mainly on seeds on the ground, living in pairs during breeding and in flocks at other times.
- Southern Blossom Bat Syconycteris australis
This small bat lives in forests of eastern and north-eastern Australia and feeds on flower nectar and pollen. It may land on blossoms or hover in front of them while feeding.
- Speckled Boobook Ninox punctulata
The Speckled Boobook occurs on Sulawesi and nearby islands. It is active at night and is mainly associated with forest.
- Mainland leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis
A small wild cat of mainland Asia and some nearby islands. It has dark body spots, with coat colour and pattern varying by region.
- Neblina Tapaculo Scytalopus altirostris
Endemic to Peru, this gray tapaculo has variable rufous markings and forages near the ground in humid montane forest and scrub with bunchgrass.
- Colombian Small-eared Shrew Cryptotis colombianus
This shrew is recorded in the central Colombian Andes. It has a dark-brown back, a short tail, tiny eyes and ears, and records in moist montane cloud forest.
- Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
A thrush that travels from northern Europe to Britain for winter, often moving through the countryside in flocks to find berries.
- Griffin's Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros griffini
This bat was described from Vietnam. The original paper reports captures on Cat Ba Island in the north and at Chu Mom Ray in the Central Highlands, in forests of different condition.
- Dusky-capped Greenlet Hylophilus hypoxanthus
This small bird forages in the canopy and subcanopy of Amazonian forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Its range spans several countries.
- Rothschild's Rock Wallaby Petrogale rothschildi
Rothschild's rock wallaby occurs in Western Australia's Pilbara and Ashburton regions. It uses deep rocky crevices as refuge from daytime heat.
- Predicted Antwren Herpsilochmus praedictus
The Predicted Antwren occurs mainly between the Purus and Madeira rivers in the western Brazilian Amazon; its western limit is provisional.
- Bailey's Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus baileyi
Bailey's pocket mouse is a small rodent of the Sonoran Desert. It is active at night and carries seeds and other food in its cheek pouches.
- Styan's Bulbul Pycnonotus taivanus
This Taiwanese endemic bulbul occurs in eastern Taiwan and the Hengchun Peninsula. Its black head, pale cheeks, and orange or yellow mark at the bill base are distinctive.
- Humboldt's Squirrel Monkey Saimiri cassiquiarensis
This squirrel monkey occurs in the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The population treated as the nominate subspecies has a reddish-tan back, golden-yellow bases to the crown hairs, and orange forearms. Brazilian records include seasonally flooded, riparian, and secondary forests.
- American Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus
The American Bushtit is a small social bird of western North America. Flocks search the undersides of leaves for insects and spiders and weave a pouch-like hanging nest.
- Brazilian White-eared Opossum Didelphis albiventris
The Brazilian white-eared opossum is a marsupial from northern and eastern South America. Its white ears and dark line between the eyes stand out; it forages on the ground at night and can climb trees.