Meet the world’s animals.

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• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Cape Spiny Mouse Acomys (Subacomys) subspinosus

  The Cape spiny mouse is a small spiny mouse of rocky areas and fynbos in southwestern South Africa. Seeds make up most of its recorded diet.

• Moluccan Cuckooshrike Coracina atriceps

  Glossy black head and breast stand out against the grey back and white belly. This cuckooshrike uses the upper forest canopy on the northern Moluccas and Seram.

• Ring-tailed Ground Squirrel Notocitellus annulatus

  This ground squirrel lives in forests along Mexico’s Pacific coast. It is active in the morning and climbs shrubs and trees as well as using the ground.

• White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus

  This bird is marked by a white crown and rufous underparts. It ranges from western Africa into parts of eastern Africa, using open woodland and waterside thickets.

• Broad-faced Deermouse Peromyscus megalops

  The broad-faced deermouse has a dark streaked back and a pale underside. It has been studied in humid mountain forests of southern Mexico.

• Rufous-headed Parrotbill Paradoxornis bakeri

  The Rufous-headed Parrotbill forms small groups in bamboo within or beside evergreen forest. It eats insects, seeds and berries. Indian breeding records describe low nests woven from grass and spider web in bamboo or reeds.

• Black Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor

  The black giant squirrel is a large, tree-dwelling squirrel of forests in South and Southeast Asia. Its dark coat, pale chest marking and long tail are distinctive.

• Yellow-winged Vireo Vireo carmioli

  The Yellow-winged Vireo has yellow bars on its black wings. In mountain forest of Costa Rica and western Panama, it feeds on insects, spiders, and berries.

• Durango Deermouse Peromyscus schmidlyi

  The Durango Deermouse was described from western Mexico. The original paper reports mountain records in Durango and eastern Sinaloa.

• Sao Francisco Sparrow Arremon franciscanus

  This sparrow inhabits dry forest and gallery forest in central Brazil. It often forages as a pair in the lower vegetation and on the ground.

• Gray Marmot Marmota (Marmota) baibacina

  This marmot lives in the highlands of the Altai and Tian Shan and spends much of the cold season hibernating.

• Ethiopian Boubou Laniarius aethiopicus

  This bushshrike has glossy blue-black upperparts and tail, with white spots on the rump. It eats insects and spiders as well as small vertebrates.

• Roborovski hamster Phodopus roborovskii

  A small hamster of sandy habitats in Mongolia and northern China.

• Mountain Swiftlet Aerodramus hirundinaceus

  The Mountain Swiftlet occurs on New Guinea. It flies in flocks over highland forests, catches insects in the air and breeds colonially in caves.

• South African Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) inauris

  This squirrel lives in the dry grasslands and savannas of southern Africa. It uses underground burrows and searches for food by day.

• Ocellated Tapaculo Acropternis orthonyx

  A locally distributed tapaculo of the Andes from Venezuela to northern Peru. It occurs in cloud, temperate, and elfin forests.

• Oaxaca giant deer mouse Megadontomys cryophilus

  This large deer mouse lives in the highland forests of Oaxaca, with a dark back, ocher sides, and a slate-gray belly. It uses the dense understory of high-elevation forest.

• Northern Royal Albatross Diomedea sanfordi

  The Northern Royal Albatross has a white body and back, dark upperwings, and feeds mainly on squid.

• Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus (Sundasciurus) tenuis

  The slender squirrel has olive-brown upperparts and tail with gray underparts. It lives in trees and takes both plant and animal foods by day and night.

• Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus

  A hawk with feathers extending down its legs, moving between the Arctic and open lands farther south with the seasons.

• Oldfield Deermouse Peromyscus polionotus

  This nocturnal mouse lives in grassland and dunes in the southeastern United States. It digs underground burrows and stores seeds. Coastal animals tend to have paler coats than inland populations.

• Slender-billed Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus superciliaris

  This babbler has a long, sharply downcurved bill. It uses bamboo thickets in montane forest and feeds on insects and plant foods.

• Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel Tamiops swinhoei

  Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel is a diurnal, arboreal squirrel of East Asian forests and gardens. Yellow side stripes and white ear tips help identify it.