Meet the world’s animals.

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• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata

  The Pied Bush Chat is a small bird; males are dark with a white wing patch.

• Least Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis

  The least pygmy squirrel is a very small squirrel endemic to Borneo. It moves along tree trunks and lianas and feeds mainly on bark.

• Black-headed Trogon Trogon melanocephalus

  The Black-headed Trogon is a forest bird marked by the male's dark head and chest, the female's gray head, and the yellow belly shared by both sexes.

• 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.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• European Ground Squirrel Spermophilus citellus

  The European ground squirrel is a small ground squirrel that lives where grass is short. It comes out of underground burrows during the day.

• Blunt-winged Warbler Acrocephalus concinens

  The Blunt-winged Warbler is a small reed warbler of wetlands and mountain grasslands. Some populations migrate seasonally.

• Steppe Lemming Lagurus lagurus

  The steppe lemming is a small rodent that eats grasses and herbs in Eurasian grasslands and uses burrows in the ground. A dark stripe runs down the middle of its back.

• Stripe-faced Wood Quail Odontophorus balliviani

  The Stripe-faced Wood-Quail is a ground-dwelling quail of humid Andean forests and their upper margins. It is secretive and forages on the ground.

• Mindanao Squirrel Sundasciurus (Aletesciurus) mindanensis

  This tree squirrel is centered on Mindanao. Its 1890 original description notes a dark-gray back and reddish areas around the nose and feet; later surveys also recorded specimens on nearby islands.

• Yellow-billed Pintail Anas georgica

  This duck has a yellow bill and a long neck and tail. The account here describes the subspecies recorded in the Patagonia region.

• Atlantic Forest Nectomys Nectomys squamipes

  The 2015 species account records this rodent in eastern Brazil’s Atlantic Forest region and cites primary forest near streams as habitat.

• Brown-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes

  In Hong Kong this small warbler is a common winter visitor to dense vegetation in open-canopy places. It also breeds in montane scrub there.

• Uinta Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) umbrinus

  This chipmunk occurs in mountains of the western United States. It has long, pointed ears and prefers montane coniferous forest.

• Socorro Mockingbird Mimus graysoni

  A mockingbird of Socorro Island, Mexico, that searches for fruit and small animals in the island highlands.

• Creeping Vole Microtus (Mynomes) oregoni

  The creeping vole is a small vole of the Pacific coast of North America. Its tiny eyes and short tail are distinctive, and it uses tunnels and burrows close to the ground.

• White-tailed Swallow Hirundo megaensis

  A swallow restricted to southern Ethiopia's Acacia–Commiphora woodland. A study recorded many nests in homes occupied by villagers.

• Tufted Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus whiteheadi

  The tufted pygmy squirrel is a small squirrel with long white ear tufts. It moves along tree trunks in Borneo's mountain forests, feeding on bark and lichens.

• Tablas Drongo Dicrurus menagei

  This drongo is treated as endemic to Tablas Island in the Philippines. Its outer tail feathers are very long and curve outward at the tips; most field observations were in mature, closed-canopy forest.

• Big-eared Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) macrotis

  The Big-eared Woodrat is a nocturnal rodent of woodland and scrub from California into northern Mexico. It builds stick nests and feeds on plant material.

• Red-legged Cormorant Poikilocarbo gaimardi

  The Red-legged Cormorant is a coastal South American cormorant. A white neck patch, red legs, and yellow bill stand out. It occurs on the Pacific coast from Peru to Chile and along southernmost Argentina on the Atlantic.

• Cream-coloured Giant Squirrel Ratufa affinis

  The cream-coloured giant squirrel is a large squirrel active by day in the upper canopy. It eats fruit and other plant matter, as well as insects.

• Spotted Grasshopper-warbler Locustella thoracica

  This warbler has dark brown upperparts, a white throat, and spotted breast markings. It breeds in high areas from the eastern and central Himalayas to central China; one winter record is reported from northern Thailand.