Meet the world’s animals.

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• Kori Bustard Ardeotis kori

  

  The Kori Bustard is a large bird of grasslands and savannas in eastern and southern Africa. It spends much of its time on the ground and eats both animal and plant foods.

• Père David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Sciurotamias) davidianus

  Père David's rock squirrel is a diurnal squirrel of rocky habitats in China. Pale eye-rings are distinctive, and it burrows under rocks and stores seeds.

• Red-shouldered Vanga Calicalicus rufocarpalis

  The Red-shouldered Vanga is a small bird of dry, thorny scrub in southwestern Madagascar. Its reddish shoulder feathers help distinguish the sexes.

• Eurasian Water Vole Arvicola amphibius

  The Eurasian water vole is a waterside rodent described here from British records. It has chestnut-brown fur, a rounded blunt nose, small ears, and a furry tail, and eats grasses and waterside plants.

• Dusky Lark Pinarocorys nigricans

  This lark migrates from breeding areas in central Africa to southern Africa. It forages on the ground in open savanna and woodland, eating insects and some seeds.

• Mound-building Mouse Mus (Mus) spicilegus

  The mound-building mouse is a brown wild mouse that resembles the house mouse. In autumn, young mice build mounds of soil and vegetation and spend winter underground.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Günther's Dik-dik Madoqua guentheri

  Günther’s dik-dik is a small antelope of the drylands of East Africa. It selects leaves and other plant parts from shrubs and trees.

• Pearly-breasted Cuckoo Coccyzus euleri

  The Pearly-breasted Cuckoo breeds in southern South America and moves northward. It is brown above, white below, and has a long tail patterned in black and white.

• Alcathoe Myotis Myotis (Myotis) alcathoe

  This small whiskered bat is found in damp deciduous woodland, often near water.

• Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachyphonus purpuratus

  Adults have a red forehead, yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks on the throat and breast. The bird uses forest undergrowth, and an adult was photographed near a nest excavated in a dead tree in Uganda.

• Mindanao Squirrel Sundasciurus (Aletesciurus) mindanensis

  This tree squirrel is centered on Mindanao. Its 1890 original description notes a dark-gray back and reddish areas around the nose and feet; later surveys also recorded specimens on nearby islands.

• Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla

  The Senegal Eremomela is recorded in open woodland and savanna in northern Ghana. A field study described it searching foliage and the ground for insects.

• Golden Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys aureus

  This rodent is recorded in the mountains of eastern Ecuador. It has long fur, a grizzled yellow-brown back, and a paler underside.

• Eastern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus

  The Eastern Shrike-tit uses its thick, hooked bill to probe bark for insects in eastern Australia. Its short crest and boldly striped head are distinctive.

• Black rat Rattus rattus

  An agile climbing rat that uses trees and high parts of buildings.

• White-backed Night Heron Calherodius leuconotus

  The White-backed Night Heron has a white eye-ring and pale back plumes. It searches for food along riverbanks and shallows at night.

• Markhor Capra falconeri

  A wild goat of the mountains of Central Asia. The traits here follow a zoo account for the Tadjik markhor subspecies.

• Spotted Crocias Laniellus albonotatus

  The Spotted Crocias is a forest bird of Java with a long tail and white throat. It moves in small groups through the upper parts of lower-montane forest.

• Walston's Tube-nosed Bat Murina walstoni

  This bat has its type locality in northeastern Cambodia, with additional specimen records from Vietnam. Its back is warm brown and its underside is white; the holotype was trapped on a dry streambed in semievergreen forest.

• Dark-sided Thrush Zoothera marginata

  This thrush occurs around the Himalayas. It has a dark-brown head and reddish-brown wings. A report from Majuli Island, Assam, describes feeding in damp leaf litter and a record of a small frog in its diet.

• Santander dwarf squirrel Microsciurus santanderensis

  The Santander dwarf squirrel is a small forest squirrel from Colombia. Orange and black fur is reported, but taxonomic confusion leaves its ecology poorly known.

• Great-billed Munia Lonchura grandis

  A small bird of New Guinea's grasslands and wetlands, with a black head and underside set off by a yellow-orange rump.

• Eva's deer mouse Peromyscus eva

  Eva's deer mouse occurs on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and Carmen Island. Its coat varies, and the island population is darker.