Meet the world’s animals.

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• Australian Hobby Falco longipennis

  

  The Australian Hobby catches small birds and large flying insects in the air. Its plumage varies somewhat by sex and region.

• 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.

• Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris

  The Yellow-billed Tern is a small tern with a yellow bill and legs, a black cap, and a white forehead. It breeds on large South American rivers and searches over the water for prey.

• Gray-collared Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) cinereicollis

  This chipmunk occurs in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States. It mainly uses conifer forests and mature woodlands and gathers and stores seeds.

• Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima

  This bulbul lives in forests of east-central Africa. Its yellow-green back and yellow throat and belly stand out, and it often eats fruit and seeds.

• Labrador Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius

  This lemming changes coat color with the seasons: white in winter and gray to brown in warmer seasons. It burrows in the tundra of northeastern Canada and eats grasses and shrub buds.

• Red-browed Amazon Amazona rhodocorytha

  Adult Red-browed Amazons are green, with a red forehead and crown and blue on the throat and upper cheeks. In the wild, they eat fruits and seeds high in the trees of humid forests in eastern Brazil.

• Mount Kilimanjaro Vlei Rat Otomys zinki

  This vlei rat is recorded on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Its dark coat has ochre bands and black hair tips.

• Oahu Elepaio Chasiempis ibidis

  The Oahu Elepaio is a small flycatcher found only on Oahu. Hawaiʻi and U.S. federal listings classify it as endangered.

• Forest Giant Squirrel Protoxerus (Protoxerus) stangeri

  This forest squirrel has a longer tail than head-and-body length in the Gabon record. The CNRS account says it often comes to the ground and eats insects, palm nuts, and leaves.

• Brown-capped Babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus

  This babbler is endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits forest, well-wooded areas, and thick undergrowth, and is absent from the extremely dry north and southeast according to the local species account.

• Gray Red-backed Vole Myodes rufocanus

  This vole occurs across northern Eurasia. It has a reddish-brown back and gray sides; in northern Europe it is common in conifer forest and also lives in scrub and meadows.

• Tahiti Reed Warbler Acrocephalus caffer

  This reed warbler occurs in French Polynesia. Most birds are pale yellow with mottling above, while a dark olive-brown morph also occurs. It uses bamboo thickets and second-growth forest and eats insects and other small animals as well as nectar.

• Mongolian Gerbil Meriones (Pallasiomys) unguiculatus

  The Mongolian gerbil lives in dry grassland and steppe in Mongolia, northern China, and nearby areas. It digs burrows and forages for seeds and other plant food.

• Dusky Grasswren Amytornis purnelli

  A small bird of central Australian rocky areas and gorges, it has rusty-brown plumage with fine white streaks and moves around rocks and spinifex clumps near the ground.

• Min Mountain Striped Squirrel Tamiops minshanica

  This striped squirrel was described from the Minshan Mountains of Sichuan, China. A 2026 multilocus study also recognizes it among the valid species of Tamiops.

• Zebra Woodpecker Meiglyptes tristis

  This small woodpecker has dense black-and-pale bars. Its current native range is limited to Java.

• Brush Deermouse Peromyscus boylii

  The brush deermouse has a brown back, a pale underside, and a long tail with a tufted tip. It is active at night and uses trees and rock crevices.

• Ecuadorian Ground Dove Columbina buckleyi

  A small dove with a square-tipped tail and subtle male-female differences in plumage. It lives in open areas from western Ecuador to far southern Colombia and northern Peru.

• Northern Luzon Phloeomys Phloeomys pallidus

  The northern Luzon phloeomys is a large rodent found in northern Luzon. It often uses trees but also moves on the ground.

• Golden-browed Chlorophonia Chlorophonia callophrys

  The Golden-browed Chlorophonia is a bright green and yellow bird; adult males add a golden brow.

• Alaska Marmot Marmota (Marmota) broweri

  The Alaska marmot is a large squirrel relative that makes burrows among rocky areas in northern Alaska. It eats grasses, flowers, and roots in summer and hibernates in its burrow in winter.

• Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus

  The Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird is a small barbet, marked by a yellow rump and white facial stripes.

• Reed Vole Microtus (Alexandromys) fortis

  A large vole associated with wet grasslands. Seasonal movements in the Dongting Lake area have been studied in relation to changing lake levels.