Meet the world’s animals.

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• Denham's Bustard Neotis denhami

  

  A large ground-dwelling bird with black-and-white wing markings. In South Africa and Eswatini, males inflate the neck and display white plumes.

• Collie's Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) colliaei

  A tree squirrel from Mexico’s Pacific slope. A study in Jalisco recorded it in tropical dry forests, where it also ate fruit.

• Northern Scrub Robin Drymodes superciliaris

  The Northern Scrub Robin lives in scrub in north-eastern Australia. It often stays near the ground and nests there.

• Northern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys leucogaster

  The Northern Grasshopper Mouse is unusual among mice because most of its diet consists of animals, including insects and scorpions. It rests in burrows by day and is active at night.

• Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea

  The Scarlet Tanager is a migratory North American bird whose breeding male is red and black and whose female is yellow-green. It moves to northern South America for winter.

• Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Ictidomys tridecemlineatus

  The thirteen-lined ground squirrel has alternating dark and light stripes, with spots in the dark stripes. In Texas it uses underground burrows in grassland and pasture, and its food changes with the season.

• Common Jery Neomixis tenella

  A small bird endemic to Madagascar. It uses woody habitats including forest, scrub, savanna, plantations and vegetation around villages.

• 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.

• Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea

  The Whiskered Auklet is a small seabird with a crest and white plumes that stand out in the breeding season.

• Red Bush Squirrel Paraxerus palliatus

  This diurnal squirrel occurs in coastal forests from East to southern Africa. It eats fruit and nuts, and regional forms differ in coat shade and body size.

• Mariana Swiftlet Aerodramus bartschi

  The head and upperparts are dark gray-brown, the throat and upper breast are gray-white, and the lower parts are darker. It nests in caves on its native islands.

• White-toothed Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) leucodon

  This woodrat lives in dry areas from the southern United States to central Mexico. It has a grey-brown back and white underside, is active at night, and uses nests surrounded by plants and woody debris.

• New Caledonian Streaked Fantail Rhipidura verreauxi

  This small bird often fans its long tail. It has an observation record from Mont Koghi, New Caledonia, and lives in forest and forest edge.

• Daurian Ground Squirrel Spermophilus dauricus

  This ground squirrel has gray-russet fur and a pale tail tip. It lives in dry grasslands and plains in northeastern China, eastern Mongolia, and Russia's Transbaikalia region, among other records.

• Baudin's Black Cockatoo Zanda baudinii

  Baudin’s black-cockatoo is a dark cockatoo from south-western Western Australia, with white cheek patches and white panels on its tail. It uses a long, slender bill to remove seeds from eucalypts.

• Transcaucasian Mole Vole Ellobius (Afganomys) lutescens

  A burrowing rodent recorded in eastern Turkey's semiarid areas, grasslands, and high-elevation cultivated fields. Field observations report family groups, complex tunnels, and a diet of vegetation.

• Ochre-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula flavirostris

  This small antpitta lives in the undergrowth of humid montane forest. Its ochre breast and dark-edged feather pattern help identify it.

• Père David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Sciurotamias) davidianus

  Père David's rock squirrel is a diurnal squirrel of rocky habitats in China. Pale eye-rings are distinctive, and it burrows under rocks and stores seeds.

• Tawny-collared Nightjar Antrostomus salvini

  A nightjar of the lowlands of northeastern Mexico, inhabiting dry scrub and open areas with scattered bushes.

• Yucatan deer mouse Peromyscus yucatanicus

  This mouse lives on the Yucatan Peninsula, where coat color differs between northern and southern populations. It is described as mainly eating grains, seeds, and fruit.

• White-fronted Manakin Lepidothrix serena

  This small manakin inhabits humid forest north of the Amazon and in the Guianas; it also occurs at forest edges.

• Himalayan Marmot Marmota (Marmota) himalayana

  The Himalayan marmot is a large ground squirrel with a stout body and short tail. It lives in open high-elevation habitats of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau.

• Great Myna Acridotheres grandis

  The Great Myna is a dark myna with a prominent crest, yellow bill, and white vent. It forages in open places such as grasslands, fields, and parks, often with other mynas and starlings.

• Coues' Oryzomys Oryzomys couesi

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