Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eaton's Pintail Anas eatoni

  

  This small duck is endemic to the Crozet and Kerguelen islands. It breeds in pairs in summer and may gather in flocks of hundreds in winter.

• Selous's Spiny Mouse Acomys (Acomys) selousi

  This spiny mouse has rufous-brown or coffee-colored upperparts and a white underside. It is recorded on isolated rocky ridges in eastern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.

• Vinous-throated Parrotbill Suthora webbiana

  This small bird has a rounded head and long tail; adults are orange-brown with rufous wing patches. It is social and uses habitats from woods and gardens to reedbeds and scrubby farmland.

• Tufted Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus whiteheadi

  The tufted pygmy squirrel is a small squirrel with long white ear tufts. It moves along tree trunks in Borneo's mountain forests, feeding on bark and lichens.

• Jameson's Wattle-eye Platysteira jamesoni

  This small bird lives in humid forests from eastern DR Congo into western East Africa. Blue-green eye wattles and chestnut patches along the sides of the neck are distinctive.

• Yucatan deer mouse Peromyscus yucatanicus

  This mouse lives on the Yucatan Peninsula, where coat color differs between northern and southern populations. It is described as mainly eating grains, seeds, and fruit.

• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Australian Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus

  The Australian swamp rat lives in wet grasslands in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It makes runways through vegetation and eats grasses and sedges.

• Nuthatch Vanga Hypositta corallirostris

  The Nuthatch Vanga is a small Madagascar endemic that searches for insects while climbing up tree trunks.

• Siberian chipmunk Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus

  A chipmunk of northern Asian forests that uses both the ground and trees.

• Sykes's Lark Galerida deva

  This lark ranges from pale to warm buff and is relatively unmarked. It has a short, thick bill and a complex song, and lives on the ground in dry stony and scrubby country in India.

• Big-eared Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) macrotis

  The Big-eared Woodrat is a nocturnal rodent of woodland and scrub from California into northern Mexico. It builds stick nests and feeds on plant material.

• Ural owl Strix uralensis

  A forest owl with mixed white and brown plumage, found in Eurasia including Japan.

• King Jird Meriones (Parameriones) rex

  The King Jird is a large gerbil known from rocky highlands in southwestern Saudi Arabia, including the Asir Mountains. Its behavior in the wild is still poorly known.

• Pavonine Cuckoo Dromococcyx pavoninus

  The Pavonine Cuckoo is a forest cuckoo with a rufous head and neck and a long tail. On the ground it spreads its wings and tail to flush insects, then chases and catches them.

• Townsend's Ground Squirrel Urocitellus townsendii

  A ground squirrel of grasslands and sagebrush in southeastern Washington. It is gray and unspotted, with reddish coloring beneath its short tail.

• D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii

  D'Arnaud's Barbet lives in open woodland and savanna in East Africa. Its orange head spots and black, yellow, and orange pattern stand out.

• Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus

  This vole lives in mountain meadows surrounded by pine-oak forest and changes its plant foods with the seasons.

• Hartert's Camaroptera Camaroptera harterti

  A small northwestern Angolan bird with gray-brown upperparts and green wings and tail. It uses humid forest undergrowth and thickets for small invertebrates.

• Bushveld Gerbil Gerbilliscus (Taterona) leucogaster

  A gerbil of grasslands and open woodland in eastern and southern Africa. A dark line runs along the upper side of its long tail.

• Rusty Pitohui Pseudorectes ferrugineus

  The Rusty Pitohui feeds on insects and fruit in forests around New Guinea. Its white eye and rufous tail help identify it.

• Alpine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) alpinus

  This chipmunk lives high in California's Sierra Nevada, among rocky slopes and subalpine forest.

• Purple Heron Ardea purpurea

  A heron with a buff head and neck, black cap, gray back, and deep chestnut shoulder patch. It favors dense plants beside shallow water.

• Alfaro's Rice Rat Oryzomys alfaroi

  The current scientific name is Casiomys alfaroi. A 1946 description from Costa Rica reports an ochraceous back mixed with black hairs and a buff-white underside. A survey in Chiapas recorded it at Bird Friendly shade-coffee farms under its former combination, Handleyomys alfaroi.