Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rarotonga Starling Aplonis cinerascens

  

  This starling is endemic to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. It feeds in the forest canopy on fruit, insects and nectar; one study records it visiting flowers of native Fitchia.

• Common Field Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus

  A small mouse found widely across Europe and nearby regions. It uses grassland, farmland, woods, and forests, and eats seeds, fruit, vegetation, and insects.

• Varzea Schiffornis Schiffornis major

  This Schiffornis occurs in lowland Amazonia. Its plumage is cinnamon-rufous; a 2024 study reported that head-color variation was not geographically structured. In 2015, one bird was trapped in várzea forest in Bolivia.

• Arabian oryx Oryx leucoryx

  The Arabian oryx is a white antelope with dark markings on its face and legs.

• Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge Dendrortyx leucophrys

  This ground-dwelling partridge has a long tail and short crest. It walks through undergrowth in moist mountain forest and secondary growth in Costa Rica.

• Little Brown Bat Myotis (Pizonyx) lucifugus

  The little brown bat is widespread across North America. It hibernates in caves and similar sites in winter, while females gather at summer maternity roosts to raise young.

• Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster

  The Pink Robin differs in color between the sexes, and its habitat changes with the season. It breeds in deep gullies in damp forest and uses more open, drier places in winter.

• Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina

  The northern pig-tailed macaque is now treated as a species distinct from the southern pig-tailed macaque. A Thai comparison found differences between the northern and southern forms in crown hair, facial markings, coat, and tail.

• Gurney's Pitta Hydrornis gurneyi

  Gurney's Pitta is a pitta whose males and females differ in head and belly color. It feeds on small animals on the forest floor in forests of southern Myanmar and southern Thailand.

• Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis

  The golden-mantled ground squirrel lives from woodlands to alpine meadows in western North America and makes burrows in rocks or underground.

• Red-throated Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon rufigula

  The Red-throated Cliff Swallow is a small swallow with a black and glossy blue-black back and rufous markings around the face. It catches flying insects in flocks and nests in colonies near cliffs and gorges.

• Velvety Fruit-eating Bat Enchisthenes hartii

  This fruit-eating bat ranges across Central and South America. It is often recorded in moist forests, and there are records of it eating small figs.

• Chestnut-capped Piha Lipaugus weberi

  This cotinga is known from a restricted area of Colombia's Central Cordillera. Its chestnut crown and gray body are distinctive.

• European Snow Vole Chionomys nivalis

  A gray vole with long, dense fur and a tail about half as long as its body. It remains active beneath snow in winter.

• Black-cheeked Ant Tanager Habia atrimaxillaris

  Oiseaux.net lists a length of 19 cm and a mass of 48.9 g, and gives lowland evergreen, streamside, and secondary forest as habitats. A 2023 study reports use of secondary forest for foraging and nesting on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula and nearby forests.

• Cyprus Mouse Mus cypriacus

  This mouse was described as an endemic species of Cyprus. It has agouti-patterned fur on the back, and the original description recorded captures in abandoned cultivated plots in the island's south.

• Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla

  A finch about 20 cm long, found in mountain regions from the Caucasus to Central Asia and seen in Georgia in winter.

• Carpathian Chamois Rupicapra carpatica

  This chamois lives in Romania's Carpathian Mountains. It grazes in alpine areas in summer, rests in shade during the hottest part of warm days, and uses lower grassland and forest edges in winter.

• Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus

  Cassin's Auklet is a small seabird that breeds on islands along the Pacific coast of North America. It dives for small crustaceans and nests in burrows.

• Southwestern Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) auriculus

  This small bat has brown fur and long ears. It becomes active after sunset and uses sound to find moths and other insects.

• Taita Falcon Falco fasciinucha

  A small, compact falcon with white cheeks and rufous underparts. It hunts small birds around wooded mountains and deep valleys with cliffs.

• Preuss's Monkey Allochrocebus preussi

  Preuss's monkey is a forest primate marked by a silvery-white neck collar and reddish-brown back. It is active by day and forages for fruit and young shoots in groups.

• Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii

  A rounded-looking tail and a nearly black crown help identify this hawk. Virginia's atlas found breeding distribution in farmland and near towns as well as forested areas.

• Durango Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) durangae

  A chipmunk of the Sierra Madre Occidental in western Mexico. It inhabits mountain forests containing pine, oak, and juniper.