Boreal Forest (Taiga)

Catfish

Whiskers, spines, and river smarts

Flounder

Two eyes, one side-seafloor masters

Tree Frog

Sticky toes, big voices, forest lives

Common Toad

Warty wanderer, springtime pond pilgrim

Mayfly

Born in water, gone in a day

Hermit Crab

Borrowed shells, bold lives

Earwig

Forceps, night-life, and fierce mothering

Common Frog

Spring's frogspawn maker

Grouse

Masters of the lek and the snow

Oyster

Reef builders that clean the coast

Slow Worm

Blinking lizard, not a snake

Siberian Tiger

Taiga's striped heavyweight

Dormouse

Tiny tree sleepers, big hibernators

Crane

Dance, Trumpet, Migrate

Snail

One class, a thousand ways to snail.

Pond Skater

Skating predators of the surface film

Glass Lizard

All the lizard-none of the legs.

Common Buzzard

The countryside's master of thermals

Sparrow

Small birds, big social networks

Marsh Frog

The laughing giant of the marsh

Woolly Mammoth

Built for the Ice Age grasslands

Leopard Cat

Asia's adaptable little spotted hunter

Stag Beetle

Antlers of the insect world

Sand Lizard

Green-flanked sprinter of the sands