Meet the world’s animals.

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• Clamorous Reed Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus

  

  The clamorous reed warbler lives in reedbeds and waterside scrub, calling loudly as it searches for insects and other small prey.

• Dusky Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) sublineatus

  This small palm squirrel lives in damp forest. It has subdued coloring and faint stripes, and observations in India record it feeding on nectar and fruit.

• Black-crowned Fulvetta Schoeniparus klossi

  This fulvetta occurs on the Dalat Plateau in the southern Annamite Mountains of Vietnam and is reported only at higher elevations in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park.

• Southern African Vlei Rat Otomys irroratus

  The southern African vlei rat lives in wetlands and grasslands in South Africa. It grips grass with its forepaws while feeding and makes runways through vegetation.

• Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia

  This small bird occurs in South Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges. The appearance and habits described here are for the form recorded in that region.

• White-ankled Deermouse Peromyscus pectoralis

  The White-ankled Deermouse occurs in the Mexican highlands and mountains. It is active at night and eats seeds, fruits, and other foods.

• Black-headed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps

  The Black-headed Mountain Greenbul lives in mountain forests from southern Kenya to northern Tanzania. In the October 2024 Clements treatment, separated from the Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul, it has a blacker head and mainly gray underparts.

• Sonoma Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) sonomae

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

• Blue-headed Bee-eater Merops muelleri

  This bee-eater has blue-purple plumage with a dark brown back and wings. It catches insects by flying out from a high perch in humid forest. The extent of blue on the head differs between eastern and western parts of its range.

• Paulina’s Limestone Rat Saxatilomys paulinae

  Paulina’s limestone rat was described from a karst region in Khammouane Province, central Laos. The original account records captures on rocky forested slopes among degraded deciduous forest, scrub and bamboo.

• Planalto Tapaculo Scytalopus pachecoi

  A small ground-dwelling bird of humid forest in southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, recorded in woodland with bamboo and scrub.

• Black-wristed Deermouse Peromyscus melanocarpus

  This small mouse lives in mountain forests of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Dark fur on its wrists and lower forelegs stands out; it forages at night for seeds and other foods on the forest floor.

• Ashy Drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus

  This drongo is recognized by its grey body and long, straight tail with no curled tips. It perches in forests and catches flying insects.

• Indian Palm Squirrel Funambulus (Funambulus) palmarum

  A small squirrel with three white stripes along its back.

• Red-headed Falcon Falco chicquera

  This falcon is marked by a chestnut-red head and cheek stripe. The account here covers the nominate subspecies in South Asia.

• Blick's Arvicanthis Arvicanthis blicki

  Blick’s grass rat is a rodent specialized for Ethiopia’s high-elevation grasslands. Its skull has a downward-twisted snout region and enlarged eye sockets, and records span 2,750–4,050 m.

• Yellow-billed Cotinga Carpodectes antoniae

  The male Yellow-billed Cotinga is white with a pale blue-gray crown and yellow bill; the female has grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail. It eats fruit around Pacific-coast mangroves in Central America.

• Mexican Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) mexicana

  The Mexican woodrat has a gray-brown back, a pale underside, and a two-tone tail. It nests in rocky crevices and is solitary and mostly active at night.

• Jandaya Parakeet Aratinga jandaya

  This parakeet occurs in northeastern Brazil. Adults have yellow heads and necks with orange breasts and bellies; it also uses forest edges and palm groves.

• Celebes Dwarf Squirrel Prosciurillus murinus

  This small squirrel lives in Sulawesi's forests. It has a dark-brown back, a gray belly, and a pale ring around each eye; it also uses tree trunks and the ground.

• 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.

• Large Japanese Field Mouse Apodemus speciosus

  The large Japanese field mouse has a reddish-brown back and a white underside. It moves over the ground and fallen logs at night and sometimes stores food underground.

• Chestnut-capped Brush Finch Arremon brunneinucha

  This finch occurs in humid montane forest in the eastern Peruvian Andes. The Peru account places its local subspecies in the understory at 1,300–2,200 m.

• Lesser Long-tailed Hamster Cricetulus longicaudatus

  This small hamster lives in dry grasslands and foothills, feeding mainly on seeds and also on insects.