Most deciduous seeds require animals for dispersion, which generally avoid such large open areas. In impoverished soil conditions, soil amendments are often required prior to other forms of active ...

They are omnivores - meaning they eat both fruits and seeds as well as other animals such as voles, birds and insects. Other mammals that inhabit deciduous forests like this are deer. It is hard ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands, they are the noisiest of the buteos, especially during spring courtship. A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards ...

Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored male can be difficult to locate. Late in the summer and during migration, it often feeds in fruiting trees. Monotypic.