Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-and-black Grosbeak Periporphyrus erythromelas

  

  The Red-and-black Grosbeak shows a marked plumage difference between the sexes: males are red and black, while females are mainly yellow. It occupies the lower and middle layers of lowland forest in northeastern South America.

• American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

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

• Dark-throated Oriole Oriolus xanthonotus

  This small oriole lives in Southeast Asian forests. The male has a black head and chest with a yellow back, and it eats fruit and insects.

• Long-clawed Mole mouse Geoxus valdivianus

  The long-clawed mole mouse is a small rodent with tiny eyes and ears and long foreclaws. The forest-dwelling nominate form in southern Chile is nocturnal and uses both underground spaces and leaf litter.

• Three-striped Warbler Basileuterus tristriatus

  This warbler lives in mountain forests on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive body and black-and-white head stripes are distinctive. The Peru account notes duller birds in Puno than farther north.

• Long-tailed marmot Marmota (Marmota) caudata

  The long-tailed marmot is a large squirrel found in Central Asia’s high mountain meadows.

• Green Shrike-Vireo Vireolanius pulchellus

  The Green Shrike-Vireo ranges from southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. It occurs in humid forest canopies and second-growth woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Golden Oldfield Mouse Thomasomys aureus

  This rodent is recorded in the mountains of eastern Ecuador. It has long fur, a grizzled yellow-brown back, and a paler underside.

• Black-backed Bittern Botaurus dubius

  A small Australian heron that hides in reedbeds and rushes, waiting for prey in the water.

• Inornate Squirrel Callosciurus inornatus

  The inornate squirrel is marked by an olive-toned back, a bluish belly, and a black tail tip. It is active by day and is recorded in Laos in forest edges and secondary forest.

• Fiji Bush Warbler Horornis ruficapilla

  The Fiji Bush Warbler is endemic to Fiji and lives in dense undergrowth in mountain forest. General descriptions show a dark chestnut head, while the Kadavu form has a broad pale eyebrow.

• Eva's deer mouse Peromyscus eva

  Eva's deer mouse occurs on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and Carmen Island. Its coat varies, and the island population is darker.

• Black-eared Wood Quail Odontophorus melanotis

  The Black-eared Wood Quail is an elusive bird of humid forests from Honduras to eastern Panama.

• Forrest's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias (Rupestes) forresti

  Forrest's rock squirrel is a squirrel relative of rocky mountains in Yunnan, China. The taxonomic revision also describes traits shared by its genus, including a squirrel-like build and a long, bushy tail.

• Lanceolated Warbler Locustella lanceolata

  Its breeding range extends from northern Europe across Siberia to northeastern China. Another subspecies breeds on islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and in northern Hokkaido.

• Beach Vole Microtus (Mynomes) breweri

  This vole is known only from Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, an island of about 2.6 km². It lives in sandy grassland.

• Green-breasted Pitta Pitta reichenowi

  This large pitta has a green breast. It searches for invertebrates on the ground and lives in tropical forests and related habitats.

• Arctic Ground Squirrel Urocitellus parryii

  The Arctic ground squirrel lives in colonies in tundra and other northern habitats across Alaska, northern Canada and eastern Siberia, and overwinters underground.

• Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis

  This bee-eater lives in forests of West and Central Africa. It uses forest interiors, edges, and treefall gaps.

• Romanian Hamster Mesocricetus newtoni

  The Romanian hamster occurs along the Danube in northern Romania and Bulgaria. In examined animals, researchers recorded a grayish back, a dark line from the ears to the shoulders, and black stripes on the cheek pouches. It is active around dusk and at night, storing seeds and fruit in its burrow.

• Black-billed Turaco Tauraco schuettii

  This forest turaco has a black bill. A 2020 phylogenetic study treated the violet-backed T. schuettii and green-backed T. emini as separate species-level taxa.

• Long-clawed Ground Squirrel Spermophilopsis leptodactylus

  The long-clawed ground squirrel is a ground-dwelling squirrel of Central Asian drylands. It is active by day and uses its long claws to dig.

• New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher Ceyx sacerdotis

  A very small kingfisher of New Britain and Umboi in Papua New Guinea. It is usually seen alone near streams and rivers.

• Merriam's Deermouse Peromyscus merriami

  Merriam's deermouse is a small mouse ranging from southern Arizona into northwestern Mexico. It is recorded in dry scrub, thorn forest, and grassland.