Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lakeland Downs Leggadina Leggadina lakedownensis

  

  This small mouse occurs in grassy habitats in central and northern Australia. The available account describes shared traits of its genus, including forward-projecting upper incisors and a short tail.

• Rote Boobook Ninox rotiensis

  An owl endemic to Rote Island, Indonesia. A 2010 field study recorded it in dry woodland and around settlement trees.

• Common Shrew Sorex araneus

  The common shrew occurs from Europe east to Lake Baikal. It has a differently colored back, flanks, and underside, and searches woodland, grassland, and other habitats for invertebrates.

• Sichuan Jay Perisoreus internigrans

  This Chinese endemic jay lives in high-altitude conifer forest. It is gray, eats nuts and insects, and may store nuts for winter.

• Eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus

  A kangaroo of eastern Australian woodland and grassland that moves by hopping on its hind legs.

• Bare-necked Umbrellabird Cephalopterus glabricollis

  Male Bare-necked Umbrellabirds have a black body, umbrella-shaped crest, and red bare throat. They use humid highland forest during breeding and lowland forest at other times, in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Fat-tailed False Antechinus Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis

  The fat-tailed false antechinus is a small marsupial that stores fat in its short, thick-based tail. It lives among the rocky landscapes of central Australia and has a reddish back and pale underside.

• Brown-backed Honeybird Prodotiscus regulus

  This small honeybird has a patchy range south of the Sahara. It searches leaves and branches for insects and lays its eggs in other birds' nests.

• Peters's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus crypturus

  Peters's epauletted fruit bat flies through southern African savanna and riverine forest, feeding on fruit. It travels to fruiting trees at night.

• White-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis ruficeps

  This parrotbill ranges from northeast India east of Sikkim to Bhutan and adjacent Tibet. It uses bamboo near broadleaf evergreen forest and may be seen in small groups.

• Great Woolly Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus luctus

  Its long, woolly fur is dark gray-brown to black with pale tips. The Sunda Island populations treated as R. luctus in the 2019 account are recorded in tropical forest.

• Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus

  The Hoary-headed Grebe is a diving bird of fresh and brackish waters in Australia. Breeding adults show fine pale streaks on the head.

• Reed Vole Microtus (Alexandromys) fortis

  A large vole associated with wet grasslands. Seasonal movements in the Dongting Lake area have been studied in relation to changing lake levels.

• Black-faced Grosbeak Caryothraustes poliogaster

  This grosbeak has a black face, yellow head and breast, and olive upperparts. In Central American lowland forest it eats insects, fruit, and seeds.

• Tolai hare Lepus tolai

  The tolai hare is a small hare with long ears and legs; it feeds on grasses and shrubs.

• Barred Becard Pachyramphus versicolor

  The Barred Becard is about 10.5–11 cm long and has fine barring underneath. It is rare or uncommon in humid cloud forest on the eastern slope of Bolivia’s northern Andes. Alone or in pairs, it gleans arthropods and also eats fruit.

• Black-tailed prairie dog Cynomys (Cynomys) ludovicianus

  A ground squirrel of North American grasslands. It digs underground tunnels and chambers and lives in colonies.

• Kenya Sparrow Passer rufocinctus

  The male Kenya Sparrow has blue-gray and chestnut plumage on the head and back, while the female is much duller. It feeds on grain and small seeds, mainly on the ground.

• Welwitch's bat Myotis (Chrysopteron) welwitschii

  Welwitch's bat has a netlike pattern in its wing membrane. Records are scattered across a broad part of Africa.

• Black-browed Tit Aegithalos bonvaloti

  A 2013 Indian BIRDS paper reports photographs of this tit near Namti and Walong in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The observed group held six to seven birds and used an open area with ferns and scattered pines.

• Common Brown Brocket Mazama gouazoubira

  This deer uses sparsely vegetated grasslands, savannas, and forest edges in South America. Its coat ranges from gray-brown to brown; the rump and upper tail are typically orange, while the underside of the tail is white. It rests in dense cover by day and emerges into open areas to feed at night.

• Short-tailed Pipit Anthus brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Pipit is a small, ground-living bird with bold streaks on its back and breast. It ranges from Gabon through the Congo region to eastern Angola and Zambia, with a separate population in Uganda. In southern Africa it uses moist, short grassland.

• Dulzura Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys simulans

  The Dulzura kangaroo rat ranges from coastal southern California to southern Baja California Sur, Mexico. Reported populations differ in body size across regions and habitats.

• Tibetan Lark Melanocorypha maxima

  The Tibetan Lark occurs on the Tibetan Plateau and was first documented in northwestern Nepal in 2015. Flocks have been observed in high-elevation grassland.