Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza uropygialis

  

  The Chestnut-rumped Thornbill is a small Australian bird of dry woodland. It has a pale face with a white eye-ring and a chestnut rump.

• Deppe’s squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) deppei

  Deppe’s squirrel is a forest squirrel with a brown back, pale underside, and relatively short, narrow tail.

• Black-masked Finch Coryphaspiza melanotis

  This finch is reported from Bolivian grasslands. Adults show a black facial mask and white tail tips, and forage on the ground. A field study recorded it at the Beni Biological Station.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Fiery-throated Fruiteater Pipreola chlorolepidota

  The Fiery-throated Fruiteater has a green body and a red throat in males and feeds on fruit in wet forests on the eastern Andes.

• Seminole Bat Lasiurus seminolus

  This bat has rich chestnut-brown fur with pale tips. It catches insects in flight at dusk and occurs mainly in the southeastern United States.

• Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris

  The Red-legged Kittiwake breeds on islands in the Bering Sea and is recognizable by its red legs and yellow bill.

• Campbell's hamster Phodopus campbelli

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

• White-rumped Cuckooshrike Coracina leucopygia

  This gray bird has a black face and tail, with a white belly and rump. It is restricted to Sulawesi and nearby islands and moves through the canopy in small groups.

• Mexican Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) aureogaster

  The Mexican gray squirrel lives among forest trees and is notable for its reddish-brown belly and flanks. Its coat varies across its range.

• Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor

  This pitta ranges along Australia's east coast north into Papua New Guinea. It lives in rainforests and sclerophyll forests; some may move in colder months.

• Short-tailed Bandicoot Rat Nesokia indica

  The short-tailed bandicoot rat prefers moist soil and areas near water, where it digs extensive burrows. The account reports one rat per burrow.

• Hume's Bush Warbler Horornis brunnescens

  Hume's Bush Warbler is a small bird of the Himalayan region. It occurs in grassy places and bamboo thickets and has brown upperparts with a pale line above the eye.

• Argentine Serotine Eptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis

  Its back hairs have dark bases and brown to yellowish-brown tips, with color varying by season and habitat. The species catches insects in flight over treetops, streams, and ponds.

• Chestnut-winged Babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum

  The Chestnut-winged Babbler ranges from southern Myanmar and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. It forages in small groups in the middle storey of evergreen forests.

• Jaliscan Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) mascotensis

  The Jaliscan Cotton Rat occurs in western Mexico. It has coarse brown fur above and a pale underside, and it is commonly associated with grasslands and farmland.

• White-crested turaco Tauraco leucolophus

  A bird with an upright white crest that hops through the trees.

• Arrow Flying Squirrel Hylopetes sagitta

  This flying squirrel is reported from Java and Bangka. At Mount Ungaran in Central Java, a paper documented nighttime activity in October 2024; the three animals observed were mainly in trees.

• Blue Malkoha Ceuthmochares aereus

  This African cuckoo stands out for its heavy yellow bill and greenish-blue back and tail. It searches the forest for insects and small animals.

• Selous's Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) selousi

  This spiny mouse has rufous-brown or coffee-colored upperparts and a white underside. It is recorded on isolated rocky ridges in eastern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.

• Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis

  The Aplomado Falcon lives in open country from Mexico through South America. It has a long tail and sometimes hunts with another falcon.

• 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.

• Sumatran Drongo Dicrurus sumatranus

  The Sumatran Drongo lives in humid forests on Sumatra and catches insects by sallying from a perch. This account places the former Mentawai subspecies with Hair-crested Drongo.

• Arctic Lemming Dicrostonyx torquatus

  The Arctic lemming is a small rodent of the Eurasian tundra. Its coat is grayish in summer and white in winter, and it may store foods such as willows.