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Great Grey Owl
Strix nebulosa


6 POINTS
Play: The great grey owl has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Great grey owls hunt during the day and can hear their rodent prey moving up to 60 cm below the surface of the snow.

Cooper’s Hawk
Buteo platypterus


7 POINTS
Play: Cooper’s hawk has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: Cooper’s hawks belong to a family of hawks whose short, rounded wings help them to fly quickly through the forest.

Wood Frog
Lithobates sylvaticus


4 POINTS
Play: The Wood frog has a MOVE of 2
Fact: The wood frog is named for its migration to upland wooded areas where it hibernates for the winter under the leaf litter.

Black Fly
Simulium spp.


2 POINTS
Play: Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2
Fact: Add insult to injury. When black fly bites you, it uses your blood to reproduce and make more black flies. Only females bite.

Black Fly
Simulium spp.


2 POINTS
Play Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2
Fact: Boreal biologists often recite the following zen koan to maintain sanity: “Time’s fun when you’re having flies” -Kermit the Frog.

Mosquitoes
Cules, Anopheles, & Aedes spp.


2 POINTS
Play: Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2.
Fact: The food chain in the boreal forest would collapse without the hordes of mosquitoes that provide food for many mammals.