Meet the world’s animals.

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• Wyoming Ground Squirrel Urocitellus elegans

  

  The Wyoming ground squirrel lives in grasslands and shrublands of the western United States. Its brown-gray fur is dappled, and it hibernates underground from late summer into spring at a Colorado study site.

• MacGillivray's Prion Pachyptila macgillivrayi

  A seabird breeding around St Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean and on Gough Island in the South Atlantic. It eats small crustaceans at sea and ranges widely outside the breeding season.

• Western Amazonian Oryzomys Hylaeamys perenensis

  The western Amazonian oryzomys occurs in the western Amazon Basin. In one Peruvian reserve, it was captured most often in forest, but that local pattern is not assumed to define the species everywhere.

• Puna Tapaculo Scytalopus simonsi

  This tapaculo occurs on the eastern Andean slope from Peru to Bolivia. Its grey plumage can include rufous flanks and rump, and it forages near the ground in humid highland forest and scrub.

• Giant White-tailed Uromys Uromys (Uromys) caudimaculatus

  The Giant White-tailed Uromys is a large rat with a gray-brown back, pale underside, and long tail with a white tip. It is active at night, climbs well, and eats fruit, nuts, insects, and other foods.

• 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.

• Arctic Ground Squirrel Urocitellus parryii

  The Arctic ground squirrel lives in colonies in tundra and other northern habitats across Alaska, northern Canada and eastern Siberia, and overwinters underground.

• Melodious Babbler Malacopteron palawanense

  This babbler is endemic to Palawan and Balabac in the Philippines. It forages in the middle and lower forest layers of lowland evergreen forest.

• Cactus Deermouse Peromyscus eremicus

  The Cactus Deermouse is a small mouse with a tail longer than its body. It lives in deserts and dry areas and is active at night.

• Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba

  In breeding plumage, the Pigeon Guillemot is black with white wing patches and bright red feet. It dives for food near rocky shores.

• Fat-tailed Gerbil Pachyuromys duprasi

  The fat-tailed gerbil has a round body and a short, thick, club-shaped tail. It lives in sandy areas with vegetation and digs burrows.

• Singing Bush Lark Mirafra javanica

  The Singing Bush Lark is a lark that searches the ground for seeds and insects. In Australia it uses grassland, open woodland, and farmland.

• Alpine marmot Marmota (Marmota) marmota

  An alpine marmot that eats grasses and roots in summer, then spends the long winter underground with its family.

• Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch Sitta cinnamoventris

  A historical Himalayan account describes this nuthatch with a cinnamon belly and records nests in decayed bamboo and roadside walls.

• Buffy-sided Oryzomys Euryoryzomys lamia

  This rodent has few known records in central Brazil. It is documented in forest and in Cerrado environments.

• White-shouldered Fairywren Malurus alboscapulatus

  The White-shouldered Fairywren is a bird of New Guinea that lives in open habitats such as grassland and marshes.

• Rock Karroo Rat Myotomys sloggetti

  Myotomys sloggetti lives in high-altitude parts of South Africa and Lesotho. It has a rounded body, short legs and tail, and dense fur. A museum account describes it as strictly diurnal and sun-basking.

• 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.

• Hopi Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) rufus

  This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.

• Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

  The Common Reed Bunting is widespread in Britain and Ireland. Males have black heads, females have browner heads, and in winter they forage in farmland with other small birds.

• Vivo's Cerradomys Cerradomys vivoi

  This rodent is recorded in eastern Brazil. The original description reports an orange-brown back, with grayish tones on the head and underside. The authors summarize records from the Caatinga and coastal forest in southern Bahia.

• Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Merops persicus

  The Blue-cheeked Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with bright blue cheeks. In Middle Eastern breeding areas it uses semidesert near water and digs a nesting tunnel in sandy banks.

• Tarabul's Gerbil Gerbillus (Gerbillus) tarabuli

  Tarabul's gerbil is a nocturnal desert rodent that eats dry seeds. The study describes it as independent of drinking water and reliant on water produced through metabolism.

• Indian Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus

  This crow is recorded from southern peninsular India and Sri Lanka. ITIS, citing the IOC checklist, lists it as a species, while Clements 2024 keeps it among the subspecies of the Large-billed Crow. This entry describes the southern form in an older regional account.