Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis

  

  The Red-crowned Amazon is a green parrot with a striking red forehead. It can be seen flying to and from roosts in the morning and evening.

• Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomops franqueti

  Franquet's epauletted fruit bat is an African fruit bat that eats fruit and flowers. White shoulder patches and the absence of a tail are distinctive.

• Bates's Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone batesi

  This paradise-flycatcher occurs in Central African forests. Its species account describes it as sedentary and associated with wooded habitats.

• Moor Macaque Macaca maura

  The Moor macaque occurs in southwestern Sulawesi. It is mainly fruit-eating and also eats leaves and arthropods.

• Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps

  A small brown diving bird common across much of North America. It often hides among wetland plants and dives for food.

• Woolly Flying Squirrel Eupetaurus cinereus

  The woolly flying squirrel has a dense coat and a gliding membrane between its limbs. In the northern Pakistan highlands, it remains active in winter and feeds on mosses and other foods.

• Dusky Fulvetta Schoeniparus brunneus

  The Dusky Fulvetta uses forests and grass-jungle in China and Taiwan. It has a rufous cap with a thin black line and grey-buff underparts.

• Dusky-footed Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) fuscipes

  The dusky-footed woodrat lives in California forests and chaparral, where it builds large houses from sticks and leaves. This entry limits its range to records within California.

• Paddyfield Warbler Acrocephalus agricola

  A relatively long, rounded tail and broad pale eyebrow distinguish the Paddyfield Warbler. It eats insects in reeds by lakes and rivers, breeding from Romania to Mongolia and wintering from Iran to China.

• Northern Hairy-legged Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) pilosatibialis

  A 2014 study supported treating this former subspecies of Myotis keaysi as a distinct species. Its coat is buffy-brown, with hair on the hind feet and uropatagium.

• Thick-billed Grasswren Amytornis modestus

  This profile focuses on the Grey Range subspecies, A. m. obscurior, in New South Wales. The state government page describes it in bluebush shrubland in arid and semi-arid country.

• Alpine Field Mouse Apodemus alpicola

  An Alpine mouse with limited records in Italy; its ecology is still not well documented.

• Brown-backed Woodpecker Dendropicos obsoletus

  An African woodpecker of dry scrub and wooded grassland. The male is marked by a red nape and a white eyebrow.

• Tree Bat Ardops nichollsi

  The lesser Antillean tree bat has brown fur and a white spot where the wing joins the body. It is thought to roost in woody vegetation on Dominica, but field observations are limited.

• Sarus Crane Antigone antigone

  Adults are large cranes with grey bodies and wings and red heads and necks. They are usually seen in pairs or family groups.

• Dama gazelle Nanger dama

  A gazelle that feeds on shrubs and grasses in arid country.

• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Fijian Monkey-faced Fruit Bat Mirimiri acrodonta

  The Fijian monkey-faced fruit bat has been recorded in upland cloud forest on Taveuni Island. It has bright orange eyes, and records of its ecology remain limited.

• Pink-rumped Rosefinch Carpodacus waltoni

  A rosefinch found in central China and Tibet. It uses open areas such as forest edges and shrubby expanses.

• Robinson's Banded Langur Presbytis robinsoni

  This langur ranges from the northern Malay Peninsula through southern Thailand to Myanmar. Some sources treat it as a subspecies of P. femoralis, while a 2020 genetic study and MDD support species-level recognition.

• Somali Courser Cursorius somalensis

  The Somali Courser has dark lines behind its eyes that form a V when seen from behind. It lives in dry open country and often moves in small groups on foot.

• Arizona Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) arizonensis

  This squirrel has a grey back, white underside, and a tail with black and yellow-brown areas. It lives in Arizona canyon forests and eats walnuts and acorns.

• Trinidad Motmot Momotus bahamensis

  This bird lives in Trinidad and Tobago. The regional guide records it in Trinidad's lowland evergreen forest and in Tobago's pastures and farms where trees remain.

• Alai Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) alaicus

  The Alai mole vole is a subterranean rodent of the Alai Mountains. Its back is buff, its flanks and belly are gray, and its forehead is dark brown. Alpine pasture is reported as habitat.