Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ceylon Spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata

  

  The Ceylon Spurfowl is a hard-to-see bird of Sri Lankan forests. Males and females have different plumage, and the female incubates the eggs in a ground nest.

• Siskiyou Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) siskiyou

  Neotamias siskiyou ranges from the northern California coast to central Oregon. Coastal and inland populations differ in coat colour, including the back stripes and underside.

• Javan Oriole Oriolus cruentus

  The Javan Oriole is a resident forest bird of Java that feeds on fruit.

• Striped Hairy-nosed Bat Gardnerycteris crenulatum

  The striped hairy-nosed bat uses tree cavities as daytime roosts in lowland rainforest. It mainly eats insects and spiders, although fruit has also been recorded in its diet.

• Malabar Starling Sturnia blythii

  This starling occurs in India's Western Ghats. It also uses open woodland, farmland with scattered trees, and places near settlements. A 2022 study followed one nest as the parents provisioned their chicks.

• Straw-colored Colilargo Oligoryzomys stramineus

  The Straw-colored Colilargo is a Brazilian rodent with pale dorsal fur sharply set off from its whitish underside. In the Cerrado it is chiefly reported from gallery forests.

• Crested Becard Pachyramphus validus

  Adult males have dark crowns and upperparts, while females are cinnamon-colored with gray crowns. In southern Peru's inter-Andean valleys, the account describes subspecies audax as a rare resident.

• Herb Field Mouse Apodemus uralensis

  The herb field mouse is a small mouse recorded from central and eastern Europe east through Russia to western China. Its back is dark brown and its underside is whitish gray.

• Banded Quail Philortyx fasciatus

  The Banded Quail is a small quail of south-central Mexico. Adults have a short crest and rows of black bars across the underparts.

• Przewalski's Gazelle Procapra przewalskii

  Przewalski's gazelle lives along the grassland-desert transition in China. Its current range is limited to isolated populations around Qinghai Lake.

• Black-throated Robin Poecilodryas albonotata

  This robin inhabits montane forest on New Guinea. The male has bluish-gray plumage with a black face and throat.

• Chiriquinan Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) chiriquinus

  Eptesicus chiriquinus is recorded in Bolivia. The Bolivian bat conservation program describes most records as humid, while also documenting a capture in dry inter-Andean forest at Torotoro National Park.

• Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis

  A pitta with blue plumage and a black bill. It breeds in southern China and Southeast Asia and appears in Singapore during migration and winter.

• Wolf's Mona Monkey Cercopithecus wolfi

  This monkey has a red patch in the middle of its back, a pale belly, and reddish-brown hind legs. It moves through lowland forest canopies in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.

• White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita

  The White-bibbed Swallow has glossy blue-violet plumage and a white throat patch. It catches insects while flying low over rivers.

• Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans

  A nocturnal squirrel that glides from tree to tree using a skin membrane between its limbs.

• Dusky Piha Lipaugus fuscocinereus

  This large cotinga inhabits humid Andean montane forest. A Peru account describes a localized record on the eastern slope, and a paper reports a study site in central Colombia.

• Big-eared Woolly Bat Chrotopterus auritus

  The big-eared woolly bat is a large bat with long dark-brown fur and large ears. It is active at night and catches small vertebrates and insects.

• Rose-breasted Chat Granatellus pelzelni

  The Rose-breasted Chat differs strongly by sex and inhabits forest canopy and edges.

• Gapper's Red-backed Mouse Myodes gapperi

  This small mammal lives in cool forests and other habitats in northern North America. A reddish-brown stripe runs along its back, and it nests around roots, stumps, and fallen logs.

• Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus thura

  The Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch uses scrubby and semi-open habitats around the Himalaya. Males are lilac-pink, while females are brown and streaked, so the sexes look different.

• Tarabul's Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) tarabuli

  Tarabul's gerbil is a nocturnal desert rodent that eats dry seeds. The study describes it as independent of drinking water and reliant on water produced through metabolism.

• Common Guillemot Uria aalge

  The Common Guillemot is a seabird that gathers on coastal cliffs to breed and otherwise lives at sea.

• Takin Budorcas taxicolor

  The Mishmi form is a plant-eating hoofed mammal of the eastern Himalayas and nearby mountains.