Forest edgeSome animals thrive on overlapping resources. Forest edge animals spend less time and energy traveling between resources and more time feeding and reproducing. Also, shorter distances between food, water, and cover means less exposure to predators. |
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Featured animals |
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| Common name | Scientific name |
| Milk snake | Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum |
| Turkey vulture | Cathartes aura |
| Red-tailed hawk | Buteo jamaicensis |
| Kestrel | Falco sparverius |
| Northern bobwhite | Colinus virginianus |
| Barn owl | Tyto alba |
| Common flicker | Colaptes auratus |
| Downy woodpecker | Picoides pubescens |
| Eastern kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus |
| Bluejay | Cyanocitta cristata |
| American crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos |
| Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos |
| Brown thrasher | Toxostoma rufum |
| Eastern bluebird | Sialia sialis |
| Loggerhead shrike | Lanius ludovicianus |
| Brown-headed cowbird | Molothrus ater |
| Indigo bunting | Passerina cyanea |
| Short-tailed shrew | Blarina brevicauda |
| Keen myotis | Myotis keeni |
| Striped skunk | Mephitis mephitis |
| Thirteen-lined groundsquirrel | Spermophilus tridecemlineatus |
| Southern flying squirrel | Glaucomys volans |
| Meadow vole | Microtus pennsylvanicus |
