🇨🇦 Animals of Canada

The American badger is a flat, powerful digger of the North American grassland that tunnels after gophers and ground squirrels.

The American bison is the heaviest land animal in North America and the national mammal of the United States.

The American black bear is the smallest and most widespread bear in North America, at home in forest from Alaska to Mexico.

The American crow is a large all-black bird of farms, woods and city streets across North America.

The American goldfinch is a small seed-eating finch of open weedy country across North America.

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The American robin is a large thrush that feeds on lawns and open ground across North America.

The Arctic fox is a small fox of the tundra with the best insulating fur of any mammal.

The Atlantic puffin is a small black and white seabird with a bright triangular bill.

The Atlantic salmon hatches in a river, grows up at sea, and returns to the same river to spawn.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The barred owl is a large brown owl of North American woodland, with dark eyes, a round head and no ear tufts.

The beluga whale is a white toothed whale of Arctic and sub-Arctic seas.

The bighorn sheep is a wild sheep of the mountains and deserts of western North America.

The blue jay is a loud blue songbird of the crow family, native to eastern and central North America.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The bobcat is a medium-sized lynx with a short black-tipped tail, found from southern Canada to southern Mexico.

The bowhead whale is a heavy Arctic baleen whale that breaks sea ice with its huge arched head.

The brown bear is one of the two largest land carnivores, and it ranges across the forests and mountains of Eurasia and North America.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The Canada goose is a large black-necked goose with a white chinstrap, native to North America and now settled on four continents.

The Canada lynx is a thick-furred cat of the boreal forest with tufted ears and huge snowshoe paws.

The common loon is a heavy diving bird of northern lakes, with a black head, a white necklace and a dagger bill.

The common pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.

The common raven is a large black crow that lives right across the northern half of the world.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The coyote is a mid-sized wild dog of North and Central America, smaller than a wolf and larger than a fox.

The eastern gray squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel of the oak and hickory forests of eastern North America.

The elk, or wapiti, is the second largest deer in the world.

The Eurasian collared dove is a pale grey dove with a black half-collar on the neck.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The fisher is a large, dark member of the weasel family that lives in the northern forests of North America.

The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus.

The golden eagle is a large dark brown raptor of open country across the Northern Hemisphere.

The gray wolf is the largest wild member of the dog family and the ancestor of every domestic dog.

The great auk was a large flightless seabird of the North Atlantic that swam with its wings and caught fish under water.

The great blue heron is the biggest of the North American herons and a patient hunter of shallow water.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great horned owl is a heavy, ear-tufted owl of the Americas, at home from Alaska to Argentina.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The groundhog is a large ground squirrel of eastern and northern North America that digs long burrows and hibernates through the winter.

The gyrfalcon is the biggest of all falcons, and it hunts across the Arctic tundra.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The killdeer is a large plover of open ground across the Americas, named for its loud two-note call.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The merlin is a small, stocky falcon of open northern country that hunts small birds in fast low flight.

The monarch butterfly makes the longest migration of any insect.

The moose is the largest deer.

The mountain goat is a white, cliff-climbing goat-antelope of western North America.

The mourning dove is a slim grey-brown dove of open country, farmland and gardens across North America.