Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus

  

  The Mountain Quail is a western North American quail with long, slender head plumes. It uses mountain forests and brush at lower elevations in different seasons.

• Striped field mouse Apodemus agrarius

  A small mouse marked by a dark stripe down its back. It lives in places ranging from grassy fields and farms to woodland.

• Grey Emutail Amphilais seebohmi

  This bird lives in marshes in eastern Madagascar’s humid forests. It has streaked gray-brown plumage and a long, slender tail, and searches for small insects among grasses.

• Hairy Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Artibeus) hirsutus

  The hairy fruit-eating bat is endemic to Mexico. A colony using caves was studied in Jalisco.

• Mangrove Pitta Pitta megarhyncha

  This pitta walks on mangrove floors and searches for small prey with its long bill. Its crown is a uniform buff-brown.

• Southern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys torridus

  Its back ranges from gray to cinnamon, while the underside and tail tip are pale. At night it uses burrows in dry grassland and scrub and hunts insects and scorpions.

• Blue-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis athertoni

  The Blue-bearded Bee-eater has a green body, long blue throat feathers and a large curved bill. It uses openings in forests, and the species account reports spring-to-summer breeding in India.

• Thomson's gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii

  An African grassland gazelle with a bold dark stripe along each side.

• Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana

  A large waterbird with a white body, black flight feathers, and red legs; in Japan it lives around waters and wetlands.

• Collared Mangabey Cercocebus torquatus

  The collared mangabey has reddish hair on its crown and striking white eyelids against a dark face. It is active by day and spends much of its time on the ground, though it also climbs through trees.

• Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus

  The Purple-crested Turaco is an African bird with a striking purple crest and greenish chin. It eats fruit in trees in forests and woodland.

• Big-footed Myotis Myotis (Myotis) macrodactylus

  The big-footed myotis roosts in caves and unused tunnels in Japan. Its back is grayish to blackish brown, with paler fur underneath.

• Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona

  The Amazon Kingfisher has a green head and back and a long bill. It dives from a waterside perch to catch fish.

• Palmer's Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) palmeri

  This chipmunk is restricted to the Spring Mountains of Nevada. It is often found in high-elevation conifer forests and forages on canyon floors and rocky outcrops.

• Eyrean Grasswren Amytornis goyderi

  This grasswren occurs in Australia's inland dune country. A 2021–2022 study reported records outside its previously known range and persistence at sites without Sandhill Canegrass.

• Caucasus Field Mouse Apodemus ponticus

  This field mouse is currently treated as a species of Apodemus and is recorded across the Caucasus region. A study also documented it in the Zagros Mountains of northwestern Iran.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.

• Underwood's Long-tongued Bat Hylonycteris underwoodi

  Underwood's long-tongued bat is a small bat with a narrow muzzle and an extensible tongue. It leaves forest roosts at dusk to search for nectar.

• Galah Eolophus roseicapilla

  A widespread Australian cockatoo, with a pink face and breast contrasting with grey wings and back.

• Northern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys leucogaster

  The Northern Grasshopper Mouse is unusual among mice because most of its diet consists of animals, including insects and scorpions. It rests in burrows by day and is active at night.

• Red-throated Twinspot Hypargos niveoguttatus

  The Red-throated Twinspot is a small estrildid finch of thickets and riparian forest edges. The male has a red head and a black, white-spotted belly.

• Bharal (blue sheep) Pseudois nayaur

  A mountain animal also known as the blue sheep, found in the Indian Himalaya.

• Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta

  The Shy Albatross is a large seabird that glides over the ocean on long wings and breeds on islands off Tasmania.

• Gorontalo Macaque Macaca nigrescens

  This dark-furred macaque has flat hair on its crown and lives in forests of northern Sulawesi. It eats fruit, other plant matter, and insects.