Meet the world’s animals.

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• Balsas Screech Owl Megascops seductus

  

  This owl occurs in Mexico’s Balsas River depression. It uses dry forest and thorn scrub and hunts small mammals around night and twilight.

• White-toothed Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) leucodon

  This woodrat lives in dry areas from the southern United States to central Mexico. It has a grey-brown back and white underside, is active at night, and uses nests surrounded by plants and woody debris.

• Mackinnon's Shrike Lanius mackinnoni

  This black-and-white shrike has a long tail; males have a black band extending from the lores to the ear coverts.

• Sonoma Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) sonomae

  It occurs in northwestern California, in chaparral, open woodland, and brushy forest edges.

• Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi

  This flycatcher inhabits dry woodland and scrub from Mexico to northwestern Central America. It resembles related Myiarchus flycatchers; the yellow on the belly helps distinguish it.

• 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.

• Bagobo Babbler Leonardina woodi

  This flycatcher lives in forests on Mindanao. Its chestnut upperparts and long tail stand out, and it searches for invertebrates near the ground.

• Ring-tailed Ground Squirrel Notocitellus annulatus

  This ground squirrel lives in forests along Mexico’s Pacific coast. It is active in the morning and climbs shrubs and trees as well as using the ground.

• Spot-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis guttaticollis

  The Spot-breasted Parrotbill lives in grassy and shrubby areas in parts of eastern South Asia, including northeastern India.

• Singing Vole Microtus miurus

  The singing vole occurs in alpine tundra in Alaska. The state agency's general account of voles describes related species that eat grasses and seeds and use runways and burrows.

• Mountain Swiftlet Aerodramus hirundinaceus

  The Mountain Swiftlet occurs on New Guinea. It flies in flocks over highland forests, catches insects in the air and breeds colonially in caves.

• 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.

• Pririt Batis Batis pririt

  This small bird lives in dry woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Its main range is split into northern and southern populations across Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa.

• Taiga Vole Microtus xanthognathus

  This vole has yellowish cheeks and a two-colored tail. It eats grasses and berries in summer and stores rhizomes for winter.

• Fulvous-chinned Nunlet Nonnula sclateri

  This bird occurs in lowland Amazonia in Peru, with many records from Ucayali and Madre de Dios. It is brown to gray-brown, has red orbital skin, and may sit motionless on a branch for long periods.

• Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

  The thirteen-lined ground squirrel has alternating dark and light stripes, with spots in the dark stripes. In Texas it uses underground burrows in grassland and pasture, and its food changes with the season.

• Barratt's Warbler Bradypterus barratti

  Barratt’s Warbler is a small bird that keeps to dense shrubs and bracken in southern Africa. It searches for insects near the ground and is difficult to see.

• Townsend's Vole Microtus (Mynomes) townsendii

  Townsend's vole lives in wet meadows and wetlands along the Pacific coast of North America. It eats mostly grasses, with seasonal changes in its diet.

• Chestnut-eared Aracari Pteroglossus castanotis

  The Chestnut-eared Aracari is a toucan with blue skin around the eye and a single red band across its yellow belly. It often uses forest edges, young forest, and fruiting trees.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Rufous-throated Fulvetta Schoeniparus rufogularis

  In southern Yunnan, China, subspecies stevensi forages in small groups in low vegetation.

• Guenther's Vole Microtus (Microtus) guentheri

  Günther’s vole is distributed from Turkey through the Levant. It is recorded in meadows and on hill slopes with sparse vegetation.

• Thick-billed Warbler Iduna aedon

  The Thick-billed Warbler is a small brown bird with rufous on its crown and tail. It stays concealed in dense grass and shrubs and moves between breeding and wintering areas.

• Ear-spot Squirrel Callosciurus adamsi

  The ear-spot squirrel lives on Borneo. A pale patch behind each ear is a useful identifying feature.