Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bourke's Parrot Neopsephotus bourkii

  

  Bourke's Parrot is a small parrot of dry scrub in inland Australia. It feeds on seeds on the ground.

• Kam Dwarf Hamster Cricetulus kamensis

  A highland hamster recorded in western China, where the account describes valleys with grassland, scrub, and cultivated fields.

• Plain-pouched Hornbill Rhyticeros subruficollis

  The Plain-pouched Hornbill lives in lowland forests from south-eastern Myanmar through Thailand to northern Peninsular Malaysia. Males and females differ in head and neck plumage.

• Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus

  This stocky Arctic lemming has a thick coat that changes with the seasons, becoming white in winter.

• Kittlitz's Murrelet Brachyramphus brevirostris

  This small seabird lives mostly in Alaska and also in parts of Russia's Far East. The winter adult is mottled brown and white; although it lives at sea, a nest has been documented on a remote alpine ridge.

• Western Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) megalotis

  The western harvest mouse is a small rodent of western North America, often recognized by a dark stripe along its back.

• Straneck's Tyrannulet Serpophaga griseicapilla

  Straneck's Tyrannulet is a small bird recorded in Argentina. It has a gray, streaked head and sometimes catches prey in flight while foraging alone or in pairs.

• Chaco Marsh Rat Holochilus chacarius

  This rodent uses wetlands and flooded areas in the Chaco. Species-specific accounts report swimming and diving, and grass nests in crops or flooded grassland.

• Mountain Yellow Warbler Iduna similis

  This leaf-warbler occurs in the East African highlands. It has olive upperparts, yellow underparts, a long tail, and a slender bill. It moves through low vegetation in montane forest and high-altitude scrub.

• Pine Vole Microtus (Pitymys) pinetorum

  A small vole that moves through leaf litter and soil in deciduous forests. In autumn it stores roots and shoots in burrows for winter shortages.

• Cuban Martin Progne cryptoleuca

  The Cuban Martin catches insects while flying. It uses dry lowland scrub, pasture, farmland, and second-growth woodland, and it also occurs in pine forest.

• Catalina Deermouse Peromyscus slevini

  This mouse is known only from Santa Catalina Island, Mexico. Records from the island include an animal seen active by day.

• Speckled Mourner Laniocera rufescens

  This forest bird is reddish brown with fine markings. It perches within humid forest or second growth and may be seen alone.

• Blackish Deer Mouse Peromyscus furvus

  The blackish deer mouse lives in cloud forests along the Sierra Madre Oriental in eastern Mexico. It is described with dark fur, large ears, and a long, slightly scaled tail.

• Black-cheeked Mountain Tanager Anisognathus melanogenys

  This tanager is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Its blue and yellow plumage contrasts with a black face.

• 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.

• Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus

  The Red-tailed Greenbul inhabits forests of western and central Africa. Its white beard-like feathering and reddish tail are distinctive.

• Alai Mole Vole Ellobius (Ellobius) alaicus

  The Alai mole vole is a subterranean rodent of the Alai Mountains. Its back is buff, its flanks and belly are gray, and its forehead is dark brown. Alpine pasture is reported as habitat.

• Javan Trogon Apalharpactes reinwardtii

  The Javan Trogon lives in mountain forests in western Java. Males have a green-blue back and yellow belly, and the bird searches the lower forest for insects and figs.

• Salt-marsh Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys (Reithrodontomys) raviventris

  This mouse lives in saline and brackish wetlands around San Francisco Bay. Its back is dark brown, while reddish bellies vary by location.

• Chalk-browed Mockingbird Mimus saturninus

  The Chalk-browed Mockingbird ranges across eastern and southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. It has a grey body, pale eyebrow, and white tail tips, and forages on the ground or in low bushes.

• Orange Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus

  The male has a black head and back with orange-red underparts and rump. The female is mostly gray and yellow. It searches for insects among trees.

• Black Tinamou Tinamus osgoodi

  This ground-dwelling tinamou lives in humid foothill forest along the eastern Andes. Its known populations are separated, and Colombia also has a recorded population whose classification remains unresolved.

• Little Crow Corvus bennetti

  This crow lives in dry woodland and shrubland in Australia. It is active by day and eats a varied diet.