Meet the world’s animals.

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• Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinica

  

  A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.

• Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus madrensis

  The Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel has a pale coat with subdued dark stripes. It lives in high-elevation pine forest in northwestern Mexico, is active by day, and hibernates in winter.

• Common Diving Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix

  This small diving seabird breeds on islands in the Southern Hemisphere. It forages in waters around its breeding islands and uses burrows on land at night.

• Allegheny Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) magister

  This rodent occurs in the eastern United States. Its back is gray to brownish gray, its underside is white, and its long tail is distinctly two-toned.

• Salvadori's Seedeater Crithagra xantholaema

  This seedeater occurs in Ethiopia. Its grey-brown body has a yellow area from the lower throat to the upper breast.

• Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista elegans

  The spotted giant flying squirrel glides from tree to tree by spreading a membrane between its limbs. Coat color and spotting vary by region.

• White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis

  A small bird of forests and scrub in eastern Australia. Its white eyebrow is a useful field mark, and it searches among leaf litter for small prey.

• Goytaca Cerradomys Cerradomys goytaca

  This rodent is recorded in coastal restinga in southeastern Brazil. Its back is orange-brown, its head grey, and its tail is bicolored. The original habitat study recorded it most often in low shrub patches and also caught it on branches.

• Hartlaub's Bustard Lissotis hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Bustard is a ground-dwelling bird active by day in open eastern African grassland. It eats both plant and animal foods.

• Uinta Ground Squirrel Urocitellus armatus

  The Uinta ground squirrel digs burrows in meadows and pastures in the western United States. It is active by day and hibernates in the cold season.

• Saker Falcon Falco cherrug

  A large falcon of dry grassland and semi-desert, with plumage that varies in colour.

• Chiapan Deermouse Peromyscus zarhynchus

  The Chiapan deermouse is a forest mouse from Chiapas in southern Mexico. It has large ears and a long tail, and has also been recorded as a host for a beetle.

• Woodchat Shrike Lanius senator

  The male Woodchat Shrike has a reddish-orange head and striking black-and-white markings. During breeding it hunts insects in open, sparsely wooded places, then winters in Africa.

• Black Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor

  The black giant squirrel is a large, tree-dwelling squirrel of forests in South and Southeast Asia. Its dark coat, pale chest marking and long tail are distinctive.

• Samoan Whistler Pachycephala flavifrons

  This whistler is found on Samoan islands. Males have yellow underparts, while females are paler above with a gray throat.

• Lagoa Santa Akodont Bibimys labiosus

  The Lagoa Santa Akodont is a small rodent with a prominent, pinkish area around its lips. Specimen records include southern Brazil and nearby Misiones in Argentina.

• Coleto Sarcops calvus

  The Coleto is a starling endemic to the Philippines. A 2022 study at Subic Watershed Forest Reserve on Luzon recorded an Asian Koel laying in one Coleto nest.

• Washington Ground Squirrel Urocitellus washingtoni

  The Washington ground squirrel lives in grasslands from eastern Washington to north-central Oregon. It has short legs and rounded ears, and spends the long winter underground.

• Red-throated Tit Melaniparus fringillinus

  The Red-throated Tit is a small tit of acacia woodland and savanna in Kenya and Tanzania, with records from about 100 to 1,600 m.

• Western Amazonian Oryzomys Hylaeamys perenensis

  The western Amazonian oryzomys occurs in the western Amazon Basin. In one Peruvian reserve, it was captured most often in forest, but that local pattern is not assumed to define the species everywhere.

• Yellow-throated Woodland Warbler Phylloscopus ruficapilla

  This warbler occurs in scattered forests across southern and eastern Africa. It forages actively among leaves in the mid-stratum and canopy of mature evergreen forest. It is small and slender, with a narrow bill, a relatively long tail, and a dark line through the eye.

• Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota (Petromarmota) flaviventris

  The yellow-bellied marmot has a yellowish belly and reddish-brown back. Yellowstone National Park's account describes it feeding on plants in rocky grassland and hibernating.

• Plain-backed Antpitta Grallaria haplonota

  This antpitta forages on the floor of humid montane forest in the northeastern Andes. It has dusky, faintly scaled upperparts and a rufous underside with soft dark blotches.

• 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.