Birds
Mammals
Trees
Sharks
Fungi
100

Elly makes the call of this bird often.

What is a turkey?

100

Only marsupial in North America

What is the Virginia Opossum?

100

The tree with the highest sugar content

What are Sugar Maples?

100

Largest Predatory Fish and are "warm-blooded" which helps them sustain high bursts of speed.

What is a Great White Shark?

100

type of edible mushroom, known for its vibrant orange and yellow coloration and its tendency to grow in shelf-like clusters on trees

What is Chicken of the Woods?

200

The call of this bird is often used in U.S.A. media. 

Waat is a Red-tailed Hawk?

200

Most common wolf species were reintroduced to Colorado as of December 2023 

What is a Grey Wolf?

200

Leaves tremble or "quake" in the slightest breeze. You can tell it is an *blank* by the way it is.

What is a Quaking Aspen?

200
Known as the largest fish in the ocean. 

What is a Whale Shark?

200

Minnesota state Fungi: It’s shaped like a hollow, cone-shaped sponge.

What is the Yellow-Morel?

300

A ground-feeding birds and typically forage for food on the ground or in tree cavities. They use their long, sticky tongues to capture insects and their strong beaks to dig for ants and other underground invertebrates

What is a Northern Flicker?

300
Trash Panda is a slur to this species 

What is a Raccoon?

300
The coldest Oak tree species which shivers in the winter

What is a Bur Oak?

300

The fastest shark in the world can reach speeds of up to 45mph. Lives in the open ocean.

What are Mako Sharks/Shortfin Mako

300

They are small cream-colored balls up to 3 inches in diameter. Look more closely and you’ll find they are pear-shaped.

What is a Common Puffball?
400

Colonial nesters form large groups that can number up to this many individuals—often seen on rocks and trees drying their wings.

What are Cormorants?

400

The most common water mammal predator in Minnesota. It is a versatile predator. Lithe and agile, it pursues its prey on land and in water. It can swim and dive with ease and remain underwater for many minutes. 

What is a Mink?

400

Thin, papery; becomes pure white with age, marked by many pores or "lenticels"; separates into thin sheets that often roll up; bark thickens on old trees, becoming dark (nearly black) and scaly.

What is a Paper Birch?
400

known for their exceptionally long tails, which they use to stun fish before eating them.

What are Thresher Sharks?
400

looks like a tiny nest with eggs. The “eggs” hold the spores. When rain falls, the raindrops knock the eggs out of the nest. They stick to nearby plants. When an animal eats the plant, it also eats the eggs and eventually poops them somewhere else.  

What is a Bird's Nest Fungus?

500

Colloquially called "cut-throat" due to its coloration, is a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family.

What is a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak?

500

A predator species that belongs to the weasel family has a hard time keeping warm, so it tunnels deep under the snow into tangles of tree roots for warmth. *Blank* often visit bird feeders during winter to hunt the birds that visit the feeders.

What is an American Marten?

500

Thin, reddish-brown, peeling off in long, vertical, scale-like strips with scale-like leaves.

What is a Red Cedar?

500

Rarely seen by humans, it measures around 13–18 ft long and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the much larger whale shark and basking shark.

What is a Megamouth Shark?

500

It is an orange mushroom that glows in the dark. Found in a few counties in north-central and southeastern Minnesota, it grows on oaks and other hardwood trees. Chemicals called luciferase and luciferin make this mushroom glow green in the dark

What is the Jack o' Lantern?

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