Meet the world’s animals.

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• Small Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus punctatus

  

  This squirrel has dark, soft fur and a long ringed tail. In West Africa, it is recorded in rainforest and forests within forest–savanna mosaics.

• Wreathed hornbill Rhyticeros undulatus

  A tropical forest bird with a ridged structure above its bill.

• Chihuahuan Deermouse Peromyscus polius

  The Chihuahuan Deermouse is a small rodent reported only from west-central Chihuahua, Mexico. A 2023 state-level mammal chapter says its ecology is poorly known and records are sparse.

• Manchurian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus tangorum

  The Manchurian Reed Warbler breeds in northeastern China and the Russian Far East and migrates to Southeast Asia. A wintering study in Thailand found it mainly in mature reed beds.

• Yucatan Squirrel Sciurus (Sciurus) yucatanensis

  This squirrel lives around the Yucatán region and forages in trees and on the ground by day.

• Gray-browed Brushfinch Arremon assimilis

  This roughly 20 cm bird lives in humid Andean montane forest. Yellow-olive upperparts, a striped gray-and-black head, and a white throat are distinctive.

• Short-tailed Cane Mouse Zygodontomys brevicauda

  The short-tailed cane mouse lives in grass and waterside cover and is active on the ground at night.

• Thrush-like Antpitta Myrmothera campanisona

  This ground antbird lives near the forest floor. In eastern Ecuador, adults were observed incubating two eggs in a nest built low among grasses.

• American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

  A squirrel of North American coniferous forests. In summer it collects spruce cones and stores them for winter.

• Growling Riflebird Ptiloris intercedens

  The male has black plumage with blue-green iridescence, while the female is brown. This bird-of-paradise eats fruit and small animals in forests of eastern New Guinea.

• Djungarian hamster Phodopus sungorus

  A small hamster originating in Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia. It carries material in large cheek pouches.

• White-cheeked Turaco Menelikornis leucotis

  The White-cheeked Turaco is a green turaco centered in the Ethiopian Highlands. Its rounded crest, white cheek patch, and crescent-shaped white neck mark are distinctive.

• Franklin's Ground Squirrel Poliocitellus franklinii

  Franklin's ground squirrel prefers tall grass where prairie meets woodland and digs underground burrows. It eats both plant and animal foods. In Missouri, populations have declined with habitat loss and fragmentation.

• Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis

  A small swiftlet of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Thai–Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas, it flies over forests and nearby wooded areas in Singapore.

• Brush Deermouse Peromyscus boylii

  The brush deermouse has a brown back, a pale underside, and a long tail with a tufted tip. It is active at night and uses trees and rock crevices.

• Cuban Pygmy Owl Glaucidium siju

  The Cuban Pygmy Owl has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and two dark spots on the back of its head. It hunts by day as well as at night.

• Busuanga Squirrel Sundasciurus (Aletesciurus) hoogstraali

  The Busuanga Squirrel lives in forests on islands of the Calamian group in the Philippines. Its back is brown with pale-brown hair tips, and its abdomen is pale brown. Accounts also report records in trees and on the ground.

• Unicolored Jay Aphelocoma unicolor

  This jay inhabits montane forests in northwestern Central America. It uses pine and oak forests and feeds on invertebrates, including insects.

• Delicate Laucha Calomys tener

  The delicate laucha ranges across several parts of South America. Specimens reported from Misiones had brown to reddish-brown backs and pale undersides.

• Rufous-tailed Plantcutter Phytotoma rara

  This plant-eating bird lives in southern South America. It eats leaves and fruit and also occurs in gardens and orchards. Records from southern Chile include spring and summer observations.

• Yellow-pine Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) amoenus

  The yellow-pine chipmunk occurs in forests and shrublands of western North America. It gathers seeds and other foods on the ground and stores food.

• Spectacled Fulvetta Fulvetta ruficapilla

  This small fulvetta occurs in central and southern China. It has a brown to gray-brown crown, a dark side crown stripe, a broad pale-gray eyebrow, and rufous wings. It eats invertebrates and seeds.

• Prairie Vole Microtus (Pedomys) ochrogaster

  This vole lives in grasslands. Its back is grizzled brown, its underside is pale tan, and it makes runways through grass to reach food.

• Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala

  This tanager inhabits mountain forests in western Mexico. Males have a red head and throat; females lack the red areas.