Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sinaloa Wren Thryophilus sinaloa

  

  The Sinaloa Wren is associated with tropical dry forest along Mexico’s Pacific slope. A 2022 study examined geographic and environmental differences among its subspecies.

• Nilgiri Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Vandeleuria nilagirica

  This mouse is recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India. In Coorg, specimens were captured in a banana plantation and nests were found in one patch of a coffee estate.

• Edible-nest Swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus

  The Edible-nest Swiftlet is a small swiftlet of Indo-Malayan forests. It catches insects and other invertebrates while flying.

• Chilean Myotis Myotis (Pizonyx) chiloensis

  The Chilean myotis is a small bat found in Chile and Argentina. It catches flying insects around dusk and uses forests, riparian scrub, caves, and buildings.

• Lowland White-eye Zosterops meyeni

  A white-eye recorded in the Philippines. An old museum catalogue describes the color of Luzon specimens, while Philippine Museum field notes describe small groups on Calayan Island.

• Calabrian Black Squirrel Sciurus meridionalis

  A squirrel restricted to Calabria in southern Italy. A 2017 study presented morphological and genetic differences supporting its treatment as a species distinct from the Eurasian red squirrel.

• Andean Gull Chroicocephalus serranus

  This medium-sized gull changes its head pattern between breeding and non-breeding plumage. It uses Andean lakes and rivers; in Chile, some move down to the coast in winter.

• Peter's Climbing Rat Tylomys nudicaudus

  Peter's Climbing Rat is a large rodent with a long, naked tail and reddish-brown back. It is active at night and around dawn in forests.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Hairy-footed Gerbil Gerbillurus (Progerbillurus) paeba

  This small gerbil has fur on the soles of its feet. It lives in dry parts of southern Africa and uses burrows beneath grass or shrubs.

• Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris

  A dark-plumaged bird with blue-gray skin behind the eye and an orange-red bill. It uses foothill broadleaf forest and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Van Gelder's Bat Bauerus dubiaquercus

  This bat is notable for its large ears and spiral-shaped nostrils. In Mexico, records come from several forest types.

• Red-bearded Bee-eater Nyctyornis amictus

  The Red-bearded Bee-eater has long red throat feathers that hang like a beard. It perches in Southeast Asian evergreen forest and waits for flying insects.

• Least Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) minimus

  This small chipmunk lives in North America. It has a striped face, an orangish-brown back, and a grayish-white underside. It often uses forest edges and openings.

• Orange Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus

  The male has a black head and back with orange-red underparts and rump. The female is mostly gray and yellow. It searches for insects among trees.

• Gray Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus migratorius

  The HMW account under Cricetulus migratorius describes a dark gray-brown to sandy-gray back, white to grayish-white underside, and short whitish tail. The Mongolia account records it in dry hills and mountains, oases and valleys with shrubs and herbs; it gathers plant material and stores food near its burrow.

• Kauai Elepaio Chasiempis sclateri

  The Kauai Elepaio is a small songbird found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. In wet forest it searches trunks, branches, leaves, and the ground for small insects and spiders.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ashy Tube-nosed Bat Murina feae

  This small bat is distributed in Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its soft gray coat is a useful field mark.

• Pallas' Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi

  Pallas' Reed Bunting is a small bunting that breeds in northern Asia. In Hong Kong it is rarely recorded as an autumn passage migrant.

• Black-eared Squirrel Nannosciurus melanotis

  A juvenile found in West Kalimantan had a pale-gray back with black, buff, and whitish facial stripes. A nest was found among branches in nearby lowland heath forest.

• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

  A sandpiper that migrates from northern breeding grounds to Australia. In its Australian non-breeding range it forages in coastal and inland wetlands.

• Peruvian Fish-eating Rat Neusticomys peruviensis

  This semi-aquatic rodent is endemic to Peru. A 2017 range record reported one female caught in a bamboo patch within secondary forest near a river.