Nightjar
Built for twilight insect-hunting
Animal Habitats
Deciduous Forest
Forests dominated by trees that shed leaves seasonally, found in temperate regions
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Deciduous Forest Animals
European Goldfinch
Red mask, gold wing, thistle king.
Theropod
From raptors to robins: all theropod
Veery
Spiral song, epic migration.
Blackburnian Warbler
Look up for the fire-throat
Western Kingbird
Yellow-bellied tyrant of the fence line
Northern Bobwhite
Hear the whistle, save the fields.
Common Goldeneye
Hear the whistler, spot the gold eye
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
The prairie bird with scissors for a tail
Hammond's flycatcher
Hear it to name it: Hammond's Empid
Wood Duck
The tree-nesting duck with a leap
Painted Bunting
Nature's living rainbow in the thickets
Least Flycatcher
Hear "che-bek," find the flycatcher.
Panthera atrox (American Lion)
North America's Ice Age lion
Sivatherium
Shiva's horned giant of giraffids
Cervalces latifrons (Broad-Fronted Moose)
The Pleistocene's broad-browed moose
Gastornis
Eocene giant with a powerhouse beak
Embolotherium
Asia's Eocene battering-ram giant
Dinocrocuta
Not a hyena-just built like one.
Irish Elk
The deer with antlers like doorways
MacGillivray's Warbler
The Spectacled Singer of the Thickets
Kentucky Warbler
Masked jewel of the forest floor
Common Yellowthroat
Masked singer of the marsh edge
Mourning Warbler
Hooded shadow of the thickets