Birds
Elly makes the call of this bird often.
What is a turkey?
Only marsupial in North America
What is the Virginia Opossum?
The tree with the highest sugar content
What are Sugar Maples?
Largest Predatory Fish and are "warm-blooded" which helps them sustain high bursts of speed.
What is a Great White Shark?
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?
The call of this bird is often used in U.S.A. media.
Waat is a Red-tailed Hawk?
Most common wolf species were reintroduced to Colorado as of December 2023
What is a Grey Wolf?
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?
What is a Whale Shark?
Minnesota state Fungi: It’s shaped like a hollow, cone-shaped sponge.
What is the Yellow-Morel?
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?
What is a Raccoon?
What is a Bur Oak?
The fastest shark in the world can reach speeds of up to 45mph. Lives in the open ocean.
What are Mako Sharks/Shortfin Mako
They are small cream-colored balls up to 3 inches in diameter. Look more closely and you’ll find they are pear-shaped.
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?
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?
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.
known for their exceptionally long tails, which they use to stun fish before eating them.
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?
Colloquially called "cut-throat" due to its coloration, is a large, seed-eating grosbeak in the cardinal family.
What is a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak?
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?
Thin, reddish-brown, peeling off in long, vertical, scale-like strips with scale-like leaves.
What is a Red Cedar?
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?
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?