Tiaga+Zoologist

Animals Some of the resident animals in the Boreal or Taiga forest include the cow moose, black bear, squirrels, ermine, chipmunk, snowshoe hare, lynx, buffalo, and ptarmigan. Animals need to be well adapted to their environment in order to survive. Some of the many animals that migrate during the winter are ducks, geese, and other water fowl, robins hermits, and woodpeckers. Some animals have to move north to the tundra in the summer to avoid the intensive heat are wolves and caribou, then move back to keep from freezing. In the winter some animals store extra fat to keep warm, while most of them change their diets for each season. Many have thick coats and some hibernate. Animals such as the red squirrels, insects, and birds such as finches and chickadees eat seeds produced by the coniferous trees. Herbivores like snowshoe hares, moose, and beavers eat tree bark and new shoots.