Meet the world’s animals.

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• Azure-hooded Jay Cyanolyca cucullata

  

  This jay is marked by a bright blue crown and a white band. It lives in Central American cloud forests and moves through the canopy in small groups.

• Gray-headed Flying Squirrel Petaurista caniceps

  This flying squirrel ranges from the eastern Himalaya into southwestern China. Specialist accounts describe a gray head and an unspotted back.

• Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum

  It has a bluish-black body, a chestnut lower belly, white tail tips, a red bill and legs, and a crest. It searches for fallen fruit on the forest floor.

• Southern Plains Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) micropus

  The southern plains woodrat is a rodent of dry areas from the southern United States into northern Mexico. It eats cacti and yucca and may store food in its den.

• Przevalski's Nuthatch Sitta przewalskii

  This nuthatch occurs in western China and northeastern Tibet. It uses spruce and fir forest, parkland, and places with scattered trees at roughly 2,200–4,000 m.

• Smith's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus cepapi

  Its back ranges from yellowish brown to gray, its underside is pale, and white lines surround the eyes. This is a diurnal squirrel that mainly uses trees.

• Rusty-capped Fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius

  The Rusty-capped Fulvetta occurs in Chinese forest and bamboo habitats. It has brown upperparts and flanks, a rusty cap, and a long white eyebrow edged in black.

• Mandarin Vole Lasiopodomys mandarinus

  The Mandarin vole is a vole that lives in underground tunnels and occurs in northeastern and central China and other parts of East Asia.

• Black-sided Flowerpecker Dicaeum monticolum

  The Black-sided Flowerpecker is a small bird of Borneo's montane forests. Males have a red throat and dark blue-black back; females have a greener back.

• Boehm's Bush Squirrel Paraxerus boehmi

  Boehm's bush squirrel is a small squirrel with orange and dark side stripes. It moves through trees and eats fruit and insects.

• Neotropic Cormorant Nannopterum brasilianum

  A dark cormorant with a long neck and a tail longer than those of many other cormorants. It dives underwater to catch fish.

• Eastern Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) tancrei

  The eastern mole vole is a burrowing rodent recorded in Mongolia's dry steppes and semideserts. Its short tail and other features are shared within the genus and do not identify this species by themselves.

• Tristram's Warbler Curruca deserticola

  A breeding-plumage male of the nominate subspecies is slate blue-grey with a rufous patch on the wing. It uses dry montane scrub; some birds move seasonally.

• Sri Lankan giant squirrel Ratufa macroura

  A large squirrel of southern India and Sri Lanka, with a grizzled tail marked by pale hairs. It spends almost all its time in trees.

• Principe Thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus

  The Príncipe Thrush is recorded on Príncipe Island, São Tomé and Príncipe. Its account describes a white, streaked throat; field records include both primary forest and mature secondary forest.

• Slender Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Aporodon) gracilis

  The Slender Harvest Mouse ranges from Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula to northwestern Costa Rica. It is often recorded in dry areas, while its species account also lists forests, wetland edges, and fields as habitats.

• Bearded Scrub Robin Erythropygia quadrivirgata

  The Bearded Scrub Robin inhabits thickets and broad-leaved woodland in eastern and southern Africa. The mainland form has white eyebrows, moustachial stripes, and throat bordered by dark facial lines, plus white wing patches.

• Panamint Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) panamintinus

  Neotamias panamintinus occurs in isolated mountain populations of southeastern California and southwestern Nevada. Its summer coat is tawny, while the winter fur is longer and paler.

• Hellmayr’s Pipit Anthus hellmayri

  Dark streaks on its ochre back mark this pipit. It uses grassy places near water and Patagonian grassland, moving close to the ground.

• Greater Wilfred's Mouse Wilfredomys oenax

  The greater Wilfred's mouse has long, soft fur, with orange on the nose, ears, and rump. A new record from Paraná, southern Brazil, includes captures in grassland and a photograph from riverine forest.

• Cape Sparrow Passer melanurus

  A common sparrow of dry grassland and woodland in southern Africa. It mainly eats seeds, but also takes insects, fruit and nectar.

• Allen's Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) alleni

  Allen's squirrel occurs in northeastern Mexico. A winter study in Nuevo León recorded it active in cold weather and caching nuts in scattered locations.

• Buff-throated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus guttatus

  A forest woodcreeper that moves along trunks and branches, with a buff throat and long streaks below.

• White-footed Deermouse Peromyscus leucopus

  The white-footed deermouse has reddish-brown upperparts and a white underside and feet. The Texas account describes it as mostly nocturnal and living in woodlands and river bottoms.