Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-billed Amazon Amazona agilis

  

  The Black-billed Amazon is a Jamaica-endemic parrot whose red wing feathers stand out against its green body. It gathers in flocks in the forest canopy and eats fruits and seeds.

• Indochinese Flying Squirrel Hylopetes phayrei

  The Indochinese flying squirrel is an arboreal squirrel of Southeast Asian forests. It glides between trees using a membrane stretched between its fore and hind limbs.

• Brown-rumped Tapaculo Scytalopus latebricola

  This small tapaculo occurs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. It moves on the ground near leaf litter in dense understory of humid montane forest.

• Gray Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus migratorius

  The HMW account under Cricetulus migratorius describes a dark gray-brown to sandy-gray back, white to grayish-white underside, and short whitish tail. The Mongolia account records it in dry hills and mountains, oases and valleys with shrubs and herbs; it gathers plant material and stores food near its burrow.

• Rusty Sparrow Aimophila rufescens

  This sparrow ranges from Mexico to northwestern Costa Rica. It is recorded in shrubby secondary woodland, forest edges, and pine or oak woodland.

• Variegated Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) variegatoides

  The variegated squirrel is a long-tailed tree squirrel whose coat color and pattern vary greatly among subspecies. It lives in forests and open woodland in Central America.

• Long-toed Lapwing Vanellus crassirostris

  This wetland bird has long toes that let it walk on floating vegetation. Its native range is split among separate areas of Africa.

• Social Vole Microtus (Microtus) socialis

  The social vole is a small rodent that digs burrows in steppe and semi-desert. Field studies report family groups sharing burrow systems.

• Gibber Chat Ashbyia lovensis

  This small bird occurs in the arid interior of Australia. It has yellow cheeks, throat, and underparts, with a sandy-brown crown and upperparts.

• Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel Spermophilus musicus

  The Caucasian mountain ground squirrel lives in high meadows and mountain steppe of the central Caucasus and spends winter in burrows.

• Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni

  This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.

• Common Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) subterraneus

  The common pine vole is a small vole that often tunnels in deep soil and eats plant roots and tubers.

• Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae

  A hummingbird of Andean forest near rushing streams. It uses a very long, slender bill and flies low and quickly among flowers for nectar.

• Lodgepole Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) speciosus

  The lodgepole chipmunk inhabits conifer forests in California, including the Sierra Nevada. It is active by day and gathers food on the ground.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Nearctic Brown Lemming Lemmus trimucronatus

  The Nearctic brown lemming is a small rodent of northern North American tundra. It feeds on plants and lives in a strongly seasonal environment.

• Arafura Fantail Rhipidura dryas

  The Arafura Fantail occurs along the northern coast of Australia and in southern New Guinea. It uses rainforest and mangroves.

• Harris' antelope squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii

  A ground squirrel with a white side stripe, white belly, and bushy black tail. It gathers food during hot desert days.

• Doherty's Bushshrike Telophorus dohertyi

  This bushshrike inhabits montane forests from eastern Congo into the East African highlands. Its bright colors can be hard to see because it moves quietly through dense cover.

• Bunny Rat Reithrodon auritus

  Its back has mixed gray and black fur, its underside is pale gray, and its large rounded ears are furry. It lives in open grasslands and pampas, digging or using burrows and natural rock holes.

• Helmet Vanga Euryceros prevostii

  The Helmet Vanga is a large vanga of eastern Madagascar’s humid evergreen forests. It is notable for its huge blue bill; a field study recorded insects as its main prey and both parents sharing incubation.

• Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista alborufus

  The red and white giant flying squirrel is a large forest squirrel. It forages in trees at night and glides using the membrane between its limbs.

• Chestnut-tipped Toucanet Aulacorhynchus derbianus

  This green toucanet occurs in Andean mountain forest. The male has chestnut tips on the central tail feathers, and the birds may move in small groups high in the forest.

• Labrador Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius

  This lemming changes coat color with the seasons: white in winter and gray to brown in warmer seasons. It burrows in the tundra of northeastern Canada and eats grasses and shrub buds.