Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hill Prinia Prinia superciliaris

  

  This brown bird has a long tail. A Vietnam photo archive records a white eyebrow and throat and seasonal variation in breast streaking; its broader range and habitat come from a separate species account.

• Charming gerbil Gerbillus (Hendecapleura) amoenus

  The charming gerbil is a small rodent found in North Africa. Records cover hard dry ground, salt marshes, and cultivated land, among other settings.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.

• Least Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis

  The least pygmy squirrel is a very small squirrel endemic to Borneo. It moves along tree trunks and lianas and feeds mainly on bark.

• Hildebrandt’s Francolin Pternistis hildebrandti

  This francolin occurs in eastern Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Black spots mark its whitish throat, neck, and underparts; it forages in pairs or small groups.

• Savi's Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) savii

  This vole has reddish-brown fur and a short tail. It makes underground galleries and lives in colonies in grassland and around fields.

• Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus

  The Undulated Tinamou lives in Amazonian lowlands, and its brown plumage varies among regional forms. It uses floodplain forest, seasonally flooded várzea forest, and secondary growth, and is known for its distinctive call.

• False Water Rat Xeromys myoides

  A small rodent recorded along northern and eastern Australia and in western New Guinea. It uses coastal saltmarsh and mangroves, as well as nearby freshwater wetlands.

• Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum

  A dark waterbird widespread around lakes and coasts in North America. It dives for fish and is often seen spreading its wings to dry them.

• Damara Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) princeps

  Geosciurus princeps is a ground squirrel recorded in western Namibia and southern Angola. It has a pale cinnamon back, a white underside and legs, and a white stripe along each side.

• Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus

  This sparrow-family bird lives in the cloud-forest canopy of Mindanao. Its skull has a feature also found in seed-eating sparrows.

• Allegheny Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) magister

  This rodent occurs in the eastern United States. Its back is gray to brownish gray, its underside is white, and its long tail is distinctly two-toned.

• Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus

  The Malabar Pied Hornbill has a black body, white belly, and white wing edges. The male's large pale bill and casque stand out.

• Camiguin Forest Mouse Apomys camiguinensis

  This mouse is recorded from Camiguin Island in the southern Philippines. Its species account describes a russet-brown back with fine dark-and-pale hairs and a pale underside.

• Black-eared Wood Quail Odontophorus melanotis

  The Black-eared Wood Quail is an elusive bird of humid forests from Honduras to eastern Panama.

• Jentink's Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) jentinki

  Jentink's squirrel has pale-speckled brown upperparts, a creamy underside, and a long, thin tail. It is active by day and uses the crowns of small trees in montane forest.

• Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus

  In Japan, this shrike arrives as a summer visitor in areas north of central Honshu and also occurs in shrubby grassland.

• Perote Deermouse Peromyscus bullatus

  The Perote deermouse has tawny upperparts, a pale underside, and a tail longer than its head and body. It is recorded in a highland basin of central Mexico.

• Krüper's Nuthatch Sitta krueperi

  Krüper's Nuthatch lives in conifer forests around Anatolia. Males have a blue-gray back and chestnut breast, and its food changes with the seasons.

• Cape York Rat Rattus leucopus

  The Cape York Rat is a small rodent from the Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Australia. A study found it active on the ground at night and nesting communally in burrows.

• Flame-fronted Barbet Psilopogon armillaris

  The Flame-fronted Barbet lives in humid forests on Java and Bali. Its green body contrasts with blue and reddish colors on the head.

• Svynnerton's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus vexillarius

  Swynnerton's bush squirrel is recorded from mountains in Tanzania. Specimens from the West Usambara Mountains are noted for orange feet and a tail tip.

• Japanese bush warbler Horornis diphone

  A small bird of satoyama woods, low hills and thickets, known for its spring song.

• Jalapan Pine Vole Microtus (Pitymys) quasiater

  The Jalapan pine vole is endemic to a limited part of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental. It has been recorded in mountain cloud forest as well as some fields and pastures.