Meet the world’s animals.

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• Big Brown Bat Eptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus

  

  The big brown bat has a robust build. The Texas account describes it using varied habitats and roosting in buildings as well as natural sites.

• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

  A migratory sandpiper that uses shallow freshwater wetlands in Australia, walking through water as it searches for small prey.

• Red Goral Naemorhedus baileyi

  The red goral is a goat relative of the eastern Himalaya that shifts elevation within mountain forests as the seasons change.

• Jonquil Parrot Aprosmictus jonquillaceus

  The Jonquil Parrot comprises two subspecies on Timor, Roti, and Wetar. A male of the nominate subspecies is green with a blue rump and red wing patches, and the species uses woodland and Acacia savanna.

• Tamarisk Gerbil Meriones (Meriones) tamariscinus

  This gerbil lives in drylands from the Caspian region into Central Asia. It is active at night and feeds on plants.

• Purple-crowned Fairywren Malurus coronatus

  In breeding plumage, the male of the western subspecies has a purple crown and blue tail. The subspecies lives in thick river-edge vegetation from the Victoria River catchment to the northern Kimberley.

• Indochinese Ground Squirrel Menetes berdmorei

  This diurnal squirrel spends most of its time on the ground. It has a gray-brown back, a pale underside, and flank stripes that vary among subspecies.

• Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae

  This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.

• Campbell's hamster Phodopus campbelli

  A small hamster with a narrow dark stripe down its back that lives in dry steppes and deserts.

• Western Wattlebird Anthochaera lunulata

  Adult Western Wattlebirds have dark brown foreheads and crowns with white spots at feather tips. A 2021 study in Western Australia recorded the species among the more abundant nectarivorous birds visiting Banksia flowers.

• California Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) californicus

  The California myotis is a small North American bat. Its coat varies with location, including between dry regions and high elevations.

• Chestnut-crowned Warbler Seicercus castaniceps

  A bird of the subspecies sinensis was recorded foraging in broad-leaved deciduous forest in southwest Hebei, China, in 2012. That individual had a chestnut crown and yellow wing-bars.

• Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

  A shaggy antelope of grassland near water.

• White-throated Nightjar Eurostopodus mystacalis

  Streaked in black, brown, grey, and fawn, it blends into leaves and twigs by day and catches insects near the ground at night. It occurs in eastern Australia's coastal forests and woodlands.

• Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus

  A small mouse that climbs long grasses and reeds with its grasping tail.

• Black-faced Warbler Abroscopus schisticeps

  This small warbler occurs from the Himalayas to southern China and parts of Indochina. It has a black face, grey head, and yellow eyebrow and throat. It searches for tiny insects in the canopy of subtropical broadleaf forest, often with bamboo.

• Panamint Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) panamintinus

  Neotamias panamintinus occurs in isolated mountain populations of southeastern California and southwestern Nevada. Its summer coat is tawny, while the winter fur is longer and paler.

• Pileated Parrot Pionopsitta pileata

  The Pileated Parrot lives in humid forests of southeastern Brazil and nearby areas. Males have red on the head; females do not.

• Tawny-bellied Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) fulviventer

  The tawny-bellied cotton rat is a cotton rat with a buff-brown underside and a black, hairy tail. It lives in tall grass with scattered shrubs.

• Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus

  The Northern Bobwhite is a ground-dwelling bird of grasslands and woodland edges in eastern and southern North America. It hides in cover and moves in groups.

• Great Evening Bat Ia io

  The great evening bat is a large Asian bat that roosts in caves. Birds have also been recorded in its diet in northeastern India.

• White-naped Yuhina Yuhina bakeri

  A white-eye of the eastern Himalayas and nearby regions. A Bhutan government report describes a stout bill, rufous crest, white nape, and a pale, finely streaked breast.

• Four-horned Antelope Tetracerus quadricornis

  The four-horned antelope is a solitary bovid of open, dry deciduous forests in India. Four horns are present only in adult males.

• Cinnamon-breasted Bunting Emberiza tahapisi

  The cinnamon-breasted bunting is a bunting that searches for seeds and insects on rocky hills and mountain slopes.