Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chaco Eagle Buteogallus coronatus

  

  The Chaco Eagle has a prominent crest and inhabits savannas and open woodland in Argentina.

• Northern Amazon Red Squirrel Sciurus (Urosciurus) igniventris

  The northern Amazon red squirrel is a large tree squirrel of northwestern Amazonia. It can be difficult to distinguish from the southern Amazon red squirrel in the field, and one feeding study analyzed the two together.

• Large-billed Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus magnirostris

  The Large-billed Leaf Warbler breeds around the Himalayas and winters in dense forests of southern India and Sri Lanka. Its strong bill and long white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Oldfield Deermouse Peromyscus polionotus

  This nocturnal mouse lives in grassland and dunes in the southeastern United States. It digs underground burrows and stores seeds. Coastal animals tend to have paler coats than inland populations.

• Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush Pterorhinus pectoralis

  The Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and a dark necklace-like band. In its native range it lives in damp forests in small flocks.

• Damara Ground Squirrel Xerus (Geosciurus) princeps

  Geosciurus princeps is a ground squirrel recorded in western Namibia and southern Angola. It has a pale cinnamon back, a white underside and legs, and a white stripe along each side.

• New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus

  The New Zealand King Shag is a large cormorant restricted to the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. It dives for fish living near the sea floor.

• Russet Oryzomys Euryoryzomys russatus

  This rice rat lives in forests of eastern South America. It builds an egg-shaped nest from leaves and grass under or inside fallen logs and among palm roots.

• South African Shelduck Tadorna cana

  The South African Shelduck breeds at shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands in southern Africa. It uses holes in the ground for nesting.

• Red-cheeked Flying Squirrel Hylopetes spadiceus

  This Southeast Asian flying squirrel glides from tree to tree in forest.

• Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris

  Males have a striking blue head and throat. This hummingbird laps nectar with its tongue and also eats insects.

• Atlantic Forest Oecomys Oecomys catherinae

  Oecomys catherinae is an arboreal rodent. Specimens from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and Cerrado showed differences in skull form between the two biomes.

• Buff-breasted Earthcreeper Upucerthia validirostris

  This ovenbird relative lives in rocky parts of the high Andes. A taxonomic study describes geographic changes in size and plumage. A diet study in southern Peru's queñua forests found insects, spiders, and scorpions in examined birds.

• Northern Gray-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps

  Its coat changes with region and season, and the tail tip is black. From southern Myanmar through Thailand, it uses forests as well as bamboo-rich places and gardens.

• Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea

  The Olive Whistler occurs in southeastern Australia and Tasmania, using wet forests and alpine heath. It has a dark grey head and olive-brown back. Females are duller and lack the throat barring, while juveniles are more rufous-brown. It feeds mainly on insects, foraging in trees, shrubs, and on the ground.

• Chihuahuan Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys arenicola

  This nocturnal mouse lives in deserts and dry grasslands. It mainly eats insects and also catches other small animals.

• Red-necked Francolin Pternistis afer

  Red skin around the face and red legs help identify this spurfowl. Plumage varies across its range, and its diet shifts from mostly invertebrates in summer to plant matter in winter.

• Eastern Chipmunk Tamias (Tamias) striatus

  The eastern chipmunk is a small squirrel relative of forests and woodland edges in eastern North America. Its back stripes stop before the base of the tail.

• Green Figbird Sphecotheres viridis

  The Green Figbird lives on Timor and the nearby islands of Rote and Semau. Its black head, red skin around the eyes, and yellow throat and belly stand out.

• Hairy-tailed Akodont Necromys lasiurus

  The hairy-tailed akodont is a small rodent found in central South America. It lives mainly in grasslands and savannas and eats mostly seeds, though insects can become more important after dry-season fires.

• Ruff Calidris pugnax

  A shorebird that breeds in wetlands from arctic to temperate regions and also uses mudflats and grasslands during migration and winter. Breeding males display elaborate head and neck feathers.

• Merriam's Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) merriami

  Merriam’s chipmunk occurs in central and southern California, including chaparral and oak woodland.

• Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis

  The Red-breasted Nuthatch moves up, down, and around tree trunks and branches while foraging. It is most often found in coniferous woods.

• Lusitanian Pine Vole Microtus (Terricola) lusitanicus

  This small vole is native to the Iberian Peninsula and makes underground passages in moist grassland soil.