Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Ground Squirrel Spermophilus pygmaeus

  

  The little ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel of flat steppes and semi-deserts, ranging from the lower Dnieper to Betpak-Dala in Kazakhstan.

• Stripe-faced Wood Quail Odontophorus balliviani

  The Stripe-faced Wood-Quail is a ground-dwelling quail of humid Andean forests and their upper margins. It is secretive and forages on the ground.

• Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus waterhousii

  Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat is a medium-to-large bat with large ears and a noseleaf. Bahamian records describe cave roosts and insect gleaning from surfaces such as the ground.

• Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides

  Savi's Warbler is a plain brown bird of reedbeds with a loud, insect-like buzzing song. In the UK it breeds at a small number of wetland sites.

• Aldabra Flying Fox Pteropus aldabrensis

  The Aldabra flying fox is a large fruit bat found only on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles. It eats fruit and flowers and helps move seeds among the island's plants.

• Sulphur White-eye Zosterops minutus

  This small white-eye lives on Lifou in New Caledonia. It has a white eye-ring, uses open places near settlements and cultivated land, and eats insects and fruit.

• Yucatan deer mouse Peromyscus yucatanicus

  This mouse lives on the Yucatan Peninsula, where coat color differs between northern and southern populations. It is described as mainly eating grains, seeds, and fruit.

• Red Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea rubra

  The male displays crimson plumes in courtship; the female is mainly brown. The species inhabits the Raja Ampat Islands.

• South American Hoary Bat Aeorestes villosissimus

  The South American hoary bat is an arboreal bat recorded in Argentina in forests and mountain environments.

• Diard's Trogon Harpactes diardii

  Diard's Trogon lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a black head and breast with a red belly, while females are mainly brown.

• False Water Rat Xeromys myoides

  A small rodent recorded along northern and eastern Australia and in western New Guinea. It uses coastal saltmarsh and mangroves, as well as nearby freshwater wetlands.

• African Firefinch Lagonosticta rubricata

  It is described with dark wine-red plumage, a grayish-red crown, and a dark bluish, cone-shaped bill.

• Likweli Colobus congoensis

  This black colobus is recorded in forests of east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Pale orange-cream skin around the mouth and a white perianal patch stand out.

• Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Grosbeak is a songbird of western North America. Adult males are black, white, and cinnamon, and both parents care for the young.

• Black-fronted Duiker Cephalophus nigrifrons

  This small antelope is recorded in lowland forest of the Congo Basin. It is reddish-brown to brown, with a black mark down the face.

• Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus

  The Pygmy Cormorant is a small cormorant that uses freshwater wetlands and river deltas.

• Ear-spot Squirrel Callosciurus adamsi

  The ear-spot squirrel lives on Borneo. A pale patch behind each ear is a useful identifying feature.

• Plain Flowerpecker Dicaeum minullum

  At a study site in southern Taiwan, Plain Flowerpeckers fed mainly on nectar and fruit of Taxillus pseudochinensis and dispersed the seeds of several mistletoes. The Taiwanese subspecies is described with a thin, pointed bill and pale underparts.

• Brown Tent-making Bat Uroderma magnirostrum

  The brown tent-making bat eats fruit and roosts in tents made from leaves. It ranges from western Mexico to southeastern Brazil.

• Wrinkled Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus

  A lowland-forest hornbill known for the male's red wrinkled casque; it often feeds on fruit in the canopy.

• Indian flying fox Pteropus medius

  A large bat that roosts in trees in India and elsewhere, and feeds on fruit at night.

• Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufifrons

  The Rufous Fantail is a small bird with a reddish-brown rump and a tail it often spreads into a fan.

• Buffy-sided Oryzomys Euryoryzomys lamia

  This rodent has few known records in central Brazil. It is documented in forest and in Cerrado environments.

• Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis

  A stout gray shorebird, it breeds in the Arctic and winters farther north than many other shorebirds. It searches for food on rocky shores and mudflats.