Meet the world’s animals.

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• Brown Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens

  

  The Brown Woodland Warbler has a brown-olive back, pale underside, and searches for insects in trees.

• Southern Bog Lemming Synaptomys (Synaptomys) cooperi

  The southern bog lemming is a small rodent of moist places in eastern North America. It uses underground burrows and surface runways, and builds nests from grass and leaves.

• Acacia Pied Barbet Tricholaema leucomelas

  The Acacia Pied Barbet is a stocky bird with striking red, white, black, and yellow facial markings. It occurs in southern African savanna and woodland habitats, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Australian Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus

  The Australian swamp rat lives in wet grasslands in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It makes runways through vegetation and eats grasses and sedges.

• African penguin Spheniscus demersus

  A penguin of the South African and Namibian coasts that breeds in large colonies.

• Hawaiian Hoary Bat Aeorestes semotus

  This bat is naturally found only in the Hawaiian Islands, on the main islands except Niihau.

• Carmiol's Tanager Chlorothraupis carmioli

  This bird inhabits humid forest from Honduras and Panama to northwestern Colombia.

• Prevost’s Squirrel Callosciurus prevostii

  Prevost’s squirrel is a diurnal, tree-dwelling squirrel whose main food is fruit. Its species account records it in lowland and secondary forest as well as plantations.

• Buff-throated Purpletuft Iodopleura pipra

  This small bird inhabits Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Field observations report male flank tufts and feeding and nesting activity at forest edges.

• Mithun Bos frontalis

  Mithun, also called gayal, are cattle relatives kept in parts of northeastern India. A study in Arunachal Pradesh recorded free-ranging, semi-domesticated herds searching the forest for food plants.

• Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis

  A large vulture of high Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, it searches from the air for large-mammal carcasses.

• Ash-colored Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys cinereus

  This mouse has soft, dense gray fur and is active on the ground at night. The account notes that the name may cover a species complex.

• Black-breasted Wood Quail Odontophorus leucolaemus

  This quail walks along the forest floor in search of food. Its white throat and dark breast are distinctive, though its plumage pattern varies among individuals.

• Buffoon Lemniscomys Lemniscomys macculus

  This striped grass mouse was common at a savanna study site in Ethiopia. Broken pale stripes run along its flanks.

• Black-bibbed Tit Poecile hypermelaenus

  This tit ranges from central and eastern China through southeastern Tibet to western Myanmar. It searches for insects in open woodland and forest edges.

• Strelkov's Long-eared Bat Plecotus strelkovi

  Plecotus strelkovi is a long-eared bat of the dry mountain ranges of Central Asia. The revision describes a gray coat without a warm brown cast and yellowish-white underparts.

• Forest Bittern Zonerodius heliosylus

  The Forest Bittern is a forest heron with a black crown and brown-and-buff barring. It forages alone along streams in New Guinea's rainforests.

• Colorado Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) quadrivittatus

  The Colorado chipmunk occurs in the southwestern United States, including Colorado and Utah. It forages on the ground and around logs, and stores food.

• Japanese Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata

  This summer visitor breeds only in Japan, using moist woodland edges and scrub. A male's yellow-green head and the white eye ring of both sexes help identify it.

• Nyala Nyala angasii

  An African antelope whose males and females differ markedly in appearance.

• Little Stint Calidris minuta

  A tiny wader that passes through the UK on migration. Many pass in autumn, and most migrate to Africa for winter.

• Desert Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) lepida

  The back fur ranges from pale gray to dark or cinnamon to black; the belly and feet are white. It is mainly active at night and builds nests from sticks and cactus pieces.

• Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti

  A small brown bird that hides in reedbeds and dense scrub near water. It is difficult to see, but its loud, abrupt song can reveal its presence.

• Southern African Mastomys Mastomys coucha

  The Southern African Mastomys is a rodent recorded in southern Africa. A South African study trapped it more often in natural and agricultural areas than in villages.