Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-fronted Whitestart Myioborus albifrons

  

  This active little bird has yellow underparts and white around the eyes. It joins mixed-species flocks in high-elevation cloud forest and searches for insects.

• Fire-footed Rope Squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus

  This squirrel lives in forests of western and central Africa. It has a reddish face and limbs and a bushy tail, and feeds by day on fruits, seeds, and other foods.

• Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

  The Superb Fairy-wren lives in southeastern Australia. Breeding males show vivid blue plumage, and the species is known for living in small groups.

• Coues' Oryzomys Oryzomys couesi

  Coues' oryzomys uses wetland habitat. At the southern tip of Texas, it is recorded among cattails and aquatic grasses.

• Black-capped Social Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi

  This locally distributed East African weaver inhabits dry thornveld and forages on the ground, mainly for seeds; it also eats insects.

• Cambodian Striped Squirrel Tamiops rodolphii

  Tamiops rodolphii has been recorded in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. It has dark and pale stripes on the back and head and uses the understory and lower canopy.

• Greater Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea apoda

  Males court by spreading golden flank plumes and long tail wires. The species lives in forests of southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands.

• Stoliczka's High Mountain Vole Alticola (Alticola) stoliczkanus

  This vole lives in high mountain areas around the Himalaya, in valleys and rocky places above the tree line. It is nocturnal and builds nests from rock and grass.

• Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica

  The Wedge-tailed Shearwater is a large seabird of warm Indian and Pacific waters. It has light and dark morphs; dark birds are brown overall.

• Western Gray Squirrel Sciurus (Hesperosciurus) griseus

  The western gray squirrel has a gray back, pale underside and bushy tail. In Washington, it occurs in scattered pine and oak woodlands.

• Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis

  It breeds only on a plateau on Amsterdam Island and normally breeds every other year.

• Bushy-tailed Woodrat Neotoma (Teonoma) cinerea

  This rodent of western North America is known for its bushy tail and piles of plant material around its rocky shelters.

• Crowned Cormorant Microcarbo coronatus

  This small southern African coastal cormorant forages for benthic prey in inshore kelp beds.

• Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus

  The rock squirrel lives among rocky sites and burrows, eating plant foods and small animals that vary with the season.

• Pygmy Nightjar Nyctipolus hirundinaceus

  The Pygmy Nightjar is endemic to eastern Brazil. A study reports that it uses stony or gravelly ground in the Caatinga and rocky outcrops in Atlantic Forest sites for roosting and nesting. Plumage varies among subspecies.

• Heather Vole Phenacomys intermedius

  The Heather Vole has long, soft fur. It stays active all year, using burrows in summer and surface nests beneath the snow in winter.

• Freckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos analis

  This small woodpecker has white bars across its black back. A Vietnam species account describes it as resident there; another bird reference summarizes it as feeding on invertebrates.

• White-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys (Leucocrossuromys) leucurus

  The white-tailed prairie dog lives in dry grasslands and shrublands, where it builds colonies of burrows.

• Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis

  This weaver lives in African highland forest. It moves along moss-covered branches while searching for insects and fruit.

• Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon (Sigmodon) hispidus

  This cotton rat makes runways through dense grass. Its tail has sparse hair, and its coat color varies across the range.

• White-shouldered Black Tit Melaniparus guineensis

  The White-shouldered Black Tit is mostly black, with a white wing patch and pale eye. It ranges across parts of western and eastern Africa and uses dry woodland, savanna and open habitats.

• Particolored Flying Squirrel Hylopetes alboniger

  This squirrel glides among trees and uses tree hollows. A Phu Quoc Island survey found four animals—an adult female and male and two young males—in one hollow.

• Violet-capped Hummingbird Goldmania violiceps

  The Violet-capped Hummingbird occurs in tropical forest from eastern Panama to northwestern Colombia. The male has a violet crown and forked chestnut tail, and visits flowers low in the forest.

• Meadow Vole Microtus (Mynomes) pennsylvanicus

  The meadow vole occurs widely in North American grasslands and wetlands and favors places where grass remains.