Meet the world’s animals.

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• Striped Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus barabensis

  

  A small hamster with a dark stripe down the centre of its back. Its range includes steppe from southern Siberia through Mongolia and northeastern China to the Korean Peninsula.

• Nauru Reed Warbler Acrocephalus rehsei

  The Nauru Reed Warbler occurs only on Nauru, where it searches for insects in scrub, gardens, and regenerating woodland. Its rounded wings and rufous back are useful field marks.

• Three-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus insignis

  This ground squirrel lives in forests of Southeast Asia. Three black stripes run from its shoulders to the base of its tail.

• Cuzco Brush Finch Atlapetes canigenis

  This finch is known from the eastern Andean slope in Peru's Cuzco region. It forages in humid montane scrub and dwarf forest, sometimes in bamboo.

• 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.

• Speckle-breasted Antpitta Cryptopezus nattereri

  This antpitta occurs in southeastern South America, using low areas of humid montane forest and mature secondary woodland.

• Tawny-bellied Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) fulviventer

  The tawny-bellied cotton rat is a cotton rat with a buff-brown underside and a black, hairy tail. It lives in tall grass with scattered shrubs.

• Brown Sicklebill Epimachus meyeri

  The Brown Sicklebill shows a strong difference between adult males and females in plumage and ornamentation. It eats fruit and small animals in New Guinea's mountain forests.

• Niobe Ground Squirrel Lariscus niobe

  The Niobe Ground Squirrel is a day-active squirrel of the mountains of western Sumatra and eastern Java. It uses forests and scrub, and its body length is reported at about 19 cm.

• Bare-faced Go-away-bird Crinifer personatus

  This large grey bird lives in open woodland and acacia scrub in eastern Africa. Its face is bare of feathers, and the two subspecies differ in facial and body coloration.

• Plains Pseudomys Pseudomys australis

  A mouse of Australia’s arid zone. Recent records are concentrated on stony plains in South Australia, with scattered records in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

• White-tipped Swift Aeronautes montivagus

  The White-tipped Swift occurs on northern South American tepuis and along the Andes. It flies over humid forest and feeds in small flocks.

• Mexican Deer Mouse Peromyscus mexicanus

  The Mexican deer mouse lives in forests of Central America. Its tail has very little hair, and coat color varies by region and season.

• Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis

  The Choco Screech-Owl is a small owl found from Panama through Colombia to western Ecuador. It occurs in gray and rufous phases, and a row of white spots is visible on the folded wing.

• Siskiyou Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) siskiyou

  Neotamias siskiyou ranges from the northern California coast to central Oregon. Coastal and inland populations differ in coat colour, including the back stripes and underside.

• Stresemann's Bush Crow Zavattariornis stresemanni

  Stresemann's Bush Crow is a crow found in a restricted area of southern Ethiopia. It has a gray body with black wings and tail, and searches the ground for insects.

• Dusky Hopping Mouse Notomys fuscus

  This hopping mouse lives in Australian dunes and other dry places. It has large ears, a long tail and hind feet, and a white underside. At night it forages on dunes.

• Guianan Cock-of-the-rock Rupicola rupicola

  This bird lives in humid forests of northern South America. Males stand out with bright orange plumage and a crest; they eat mainly fruit and gather to display during courtship.

• Eva's deer mouse Peromyscus eva

  Eva's deer mouse occurs on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and Carmen Island. Its coat varies, and the island population is darker.

• Black-breasted Parrotbill Paradoxornis flavirostris

  This bird of northeastern India is recognized by its thick bill and black breast.

• Mindanao Squirrel Sundasciurus (Aletesciurus) mindanensis

  This tree squirrel is centered on Mindanao. Its 1890 original description notes a dark-gray back and reddish areas around the nose and feet; later surveys also recorded specimens on nearby islands.

• Hepatic Tanager Piranga hepatica

  This tanager ranges from the United States to Nicaragua. The Texas atlas distinguishes P. hepatica from the older broad treatment as P. flava and describes its Texas breeding habitat in dry juniper-pinyon or pine-oak woodland.

• Greater Pencil-tailed Tree Mouse Chiropodomys major

  The greater pencil-tailed tree mouse is an arboreal rodent recorded in northern Borneo rainforest. It is active mainly in the canopy at night and uses tree hollows and connections between trees.

• Buff-throated Purpletuft Iodopleura pipra

  This small bird inhabits Brazil’s eastern Atlantic Forest. Field observations report male flank tufts and feeding and nesting activity at forest edges.