Meet the world’s animals.

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• Balearic Warbler Curruca balearica

  

  The Balearic Warbler is endemic to the Balearic Islands and has a long tail and red eye-ring. It feeds on small invertebrates in dense Mediterranean scrub.

• Lusitanian Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) lusitanicus

  This small vole is native to the Iberian Peninsula and makes underground passages in moist grassland soil.

• Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea

  This African mountain bird has red on the rump and flanks, with white spots providing useful identification clues. The sources also describe a difference in tone between males and females.

• Common Asiatic Myotis Myotis (Myotis) horsfieldii

  Horsfield's Myotis has brown fur that is lighter underneath and long ears with rounded tips. It roosts in caves, abandoned tunnels, and buildings.

• Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus

  This thrush lives in dry East African scrub and other open habitats. Gray, rufous, and white plumage is set off by an orange bill and bare skin around the eye.

• Western Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga morenoi

  This bat has pale-based, dark-tipped fur and a long muzzle and tongue for reaching nectar. It is recorded in dry forests and scrub across parts of Mexico.

• Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Merops leschenaulti

  The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater has a green body, chestnut head, yellow face and throat, and blue on the rump and lower belly. It catches flying insects in the air.

• Western Yellow-backed Duiker Cephalophus silvicultor

  The western yellow-backed duiker is an antelope of African lowland forests, recognized by the triangular yellow patch on its back.

• Western barn owl Tyto alba

  An owl with a heart-shaped face, seen over farmland and grassland in Britain.

• Libyan Jird Meriones (Pallasiomys) libycus

  The Libyan jird is a rodent of dry areas from North Africa to the Middle East. It has a sandy back and pale feet, and makes burrows near plants.

• Greenish Schiffornis Schiffornis virescens

  This bird lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Recently collected specimens show vivid green plumage. A study in Misiones found nests on tree ferns near the forest floor.

• Four-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus hosei

  The Four-striped Ground Squirrel has four black stripes on its back and orange underparts. It lives on Borneo and is active by day on the forest floor.

• Moustached Barbet Psilopogon incognitus

  Adults are green with blue cheeks and a blue throat. The extent of red and blue markings on the head and throat differs among the three subspecies described by Oiseaux.net.

• Yellow Baboon Papio cynocephalus

  A baboon of savanna, open woodland and riverine forest that forages on the ground.

• Buffy-fronted Seedeater Sporophila frontalis

  This finch of the Atlantic Forest region of southeastern South America moves in response to bamboo seed crops. Many records are from southeastern Brazil, where birds may gather when bamboo flowers.

• Short-nosed Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) brevirostris

  This small harvest mouse is known from separated highland populations in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Adults have a reddish back and a white-looking underside.

• Crested Coua Coua cristata

  The Madagascar cuckoo-relative has gray-green plumage, a crest, and blue bare skin around the eyes. It moves between the ground and trees.

• Brown Long-eared Bat Plecotus auritus

  The brown long-eared bat is noted for its extremely long ears. The British account describes it hunting moths, beetles, and other large insects in woodland, and using trees and buildings as summer roosts.

• White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster

  The White-bellied Kingfisher is a small kingfisher that watches for prey from low perches near forest streams.

• Northern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa thyone

  This small bat has pale dorsal fur. Bolivian records include humid evergreen and young secondary forests, and the species specializes on wild figs.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Sand Gazelle Gazella marica

  This gazelle lives in deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. It uses sand dunes and coastal flats and avoids steep, rocky ground. Its coat is pale fawn, and the facial markings are faint.

• Black-throated Huet-huet Pteroptochos tarnii

  This huet-huet walks on the forest floor and searches through leaf litter for food. It lives in Andean-Patagonian forests in southern South America.

• Fat Sand Rat Psammomys obesus

  The fat sand rat is a stocky gerbil-like rodent that burrows near desert shrubs and changes its activity with the heat.