🇲🇽 Animals of Mexico

The American badger is a flat, powerful digger of the North American grassland that tunnels after gophers and ground squirrels.

The American black bear is the smallest and most widespread bear in North America, at home in forest from Alaska to Mexico.

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The American robin is a large thrush that feeds on lawns and open ground across North America.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The axolotl is a salamander that never grows up.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The bighorn sheep is a wild sheep of the mountains and deserts of western North America.

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the eastern Pacific that dives on schools of small fish.

The bobcat is a medium-sized lynx with a short black-tipped tail, found from southern Canada to southern Mexico.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The California condor is the largest land bird in North America, with a wingspan of about 3 metres and a bare orange head.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The coyote is a mid-sized wild dog of North and Central America, smaller than a wolf and larger than a fox.

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

The great blue heron is the biggest of the North American herons and a patient hunter of shallow water.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great horned owl is a heavy, ear-tufted owl of the Americas, at home from Alaska to Argentina.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The killdeer is a large plover of open ground across the Americas, named for its loud two-note call.

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The merlin is a small, stocky falcon of open northern country that hunts small birds in fast low flight.

The monarch butterfly makes the longest migration of any insect.

The monk parakeet is a small green parrot from southern South America with a pale grey face and breast.

The mourning dove is a slim grey-brown dove of open country, farmland and gardens across North America.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The northern cardinal is a crested songbird of eastern North America, scarlet in the male and warm brown in the female.

The northern flicker is a large brown woodpecker of North America that feeds mainly on ants taken from the ground.

The northern mockingbird is a grey songbird of North America that copies the songs of other birds.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The osprey is a large brown and white raptor that lives on fish and hunts by plunging feet first into water.

The passenger pigeon was a fast, long-tailed pigeon of eastern North America that moved in flocks of millions.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The pronghorn is a hoofed animal of western North America, the last of its family and the fastest land mammal in the Americas.

The raccoon is a masked, ring-tailed omnivore native to North America.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The red-eyed tree frog sleeps by day under a leaf with its colours hidden.

The red-tailed hawk is the common broad-winged hawk of North America, named for the brick-red tail of the adult.