Meet the world’s animals.

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• Salt-marsh Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) raviventris

  

  This mouse lives in saline and brackish wetlands around San Francisco Bay. Its back is dark brown, while reddish bellies vary by location.

• Blue-headed Macaw Primolius couloni

  Its green body, blue head, and maroon tail stand out. It lives in the western Amazon forests of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

• Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus

  The ochre bush squirrel lives in East African savanna woodland. Its pelage is listed as having no red coloration, and the flanks have no stripe or at most one pale stripe. Detailed ecology is poorly known.

• Bower's Shrikethrush Colluricincla boweri

  A northeastern Australian forest bird that is usually solitary and territorial.

• Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia

  This woolly bat was surveyed in lowland tropical rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. A morphological comparison says it is slightly larger than the closely related Kerivoula minuta, with size serving as a main distinction.

• Barred Warbler Curruca nisoria

  A large gray warbler that breeds in open country from eastern Europe into Asia, it is a rare visitor to Britain, mainly in autumn.

• King Colobus Colobus polykomos

  The king colobus is a West African forest monkey with a black body and conspicuous white chest, whiskers, and tail.

• Violaceous Euphonia Euphonia violacea

  The Violaceous Euphonia is about 11.4 cm long. Males have blue-black backs and wings, yellow on the front of the head and underparts; females are greenish yellow above with dull yellow underparts.

• Japanese serow Capricornis crispus

  The Japanese serow is a cattle relative from Japan’s mountain forests. Both sexes hold territories and live alone.

• Golden-crowned Warbler Basileuterus culicivorus

  The Golden-crowned Warbler is a small bird with a yellow crown stripe and yellow underparts. It searches among leaves in the lower forest and eats insects and fruit.

• Ryukyu Islands Tree Rat Diplothrix legata

  This large Japanese endemic rodent occurs on Amami-Oshima, Tokunoshima, and Okinawa Island. The University of Tokyo Museum account notes that its tail is longer than its body.

• Splendid Starling Lamprotornis splendidus

  A starling of African forests and parks. Adults have iridescent blue, green and purple plumage, form small canopy flocks and feed mainly on fruit.

• Dusky-footed Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) fuscipes

  The dusky-footed woodrat lives in California forests and chaparral, where it builds large houses from sticks and leaves. This entry limits its range to records within California.

• Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus

  This West African finch has red plumage and a short, thick bill. Research has documented two bill-size forms.

• Gray Marmot Marmota (Marmota) baibacina

  This marmot lives in the highlands of the Altai and Tian Shan and spends much of the cold season hibernating.

• Black-crowned Pitta Erythropitta ussheri

  This pitta is endemic to Borneo. It has a black crown and richly coloured body plumage, and searches for invertebrates on the forest floor.

• Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus

  A small bat found across Europe and parts of Asia, hunting insects above towns and in natural habitats.

• White-necked Babbler Stachyris leucotis

  The White-necked Babbler is about 14–15 cm long. By day it uses dense evergreen forest undergrowth and searches the ground for invertebrates.

• 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.

• Elegant Sunbird Aethopyga duyvenbodei

  The male has maroon and iridescent blue-green plumage, while the female is olive above. The species lives on Sangihe Island.

• Buffon's Kob Kobus kob

  The kob is an African antelope of grasslands and wetlands, feeding on grasses and reeds.

• Przevalski's Nuthatch Sitta przewalskii

  This nuthatch occurs in western China and northeastern Tibet. It uses spruce and fir forest, parkland, and places with scattered trees at roughly 2,200–4,000 m.

• Fawn-footed Melomys Melomys cervinipes

  This small rat lives in forests of eastern Australia. Coat color varies with age; it has pale feet and a long, mosaic-patterned tail.

• Tatama Tapaculo Scytalopus alvarezlopezi

  This tapaculo lives in cloud forest in Colombia's western Andes. The original description covers male plumage, and an observation recorded two birds searching for arthropods while walking through leaf litter.