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This bird migrates to the Boreal Forest.

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Feeding

Red-backed voles are omnivorous (eat plants) and will eat grass, seeds, fruit, lichens, fungi, insects and meat. If a vole is caught in a trap, others will feed upon the trapped vole. Both the Microtus and red-backed voles form the base of the food chain for many animals in Alaska. They are the staple foods of weasels, marten, foxes, coyotes, all owls, most hawks, inland breeding gulls, jaegers, and occasionally great blue herons, domestic cats, northern pike, and other voles.

Live
Northern red-backed voles prefer dry tundra and alpine, as well as damp forest floor in northern spruce forests and taiga.

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Brown Bears live in the Tundra / Boreal Forest.

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Click to learn about black bears.

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Watch a camera set up in the forest capturing animals in an attempt to capture a Pine Marten on film.

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March 2016 highlights - Yorkshire Pine Marten Project

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It's so cute... but it's so mean!

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Learn ALL about caribou!

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Moose are great swimmers!

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Moose Facts!

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Many of the same species of mammals live in both the boreal forest and tundra. Common species of the boreal forest include moose, caribou, snowshoe hares, red-backed voles, red squirrels, beavers, porcupines, coyotes, red fox, pine marten, wolves, and black and brown bears. Common tundra species include moose, caribou, voles, lemmings, arctic ground squirrels, red fox and arctic fox, wolves, wolverines, and brown bears.

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Migrant birds include several thrushes, warblers, swallows, sparrows, and waterfowl.
A wide variety of migrants return to the tundra each year to nest.

Common migrant species include loons, ducks, geese, swans, shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers, phalaropes, gulls, and jaegers), short-eared owls, rough-legged hawks, and a few songbirds (snow buntings, Lapland longspurs, and water pipits).

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Whoa! Look at this big bird that lives in the Boreal Forest.
Click on this link to learn about what it eats.

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Click on this link to learn about the Downy: where it lives, what it eats, and what sound it makes.

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Click on this link to learn about the Redpoll: where it lives, what it eats, and what sound it makes.

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This is a cute resident bird because of its oversized head!

Click on this link to learn about the Black-Capped Chickadee: where it lives, what it eats, and what sound it makes.

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Resident (year-round living) bird in the Tundra. Notice where they live.

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Bird residents are birds that live in the Tundra year-round.
Typical boreal forest bird residents include gray jays, black-capped chickadees, redpolls, pine grosbeaks, and common ravens; hairy, downy, three-toed, and black-backed woodpeckers; ruffed and spruce grouse; boreal, great-horned, great gray, and hawk owls; and goshawks.

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Look at the low growing bearberries. Notice the person.

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In moist sites, dryas, dwarf shrubs such as willow, bog birch, crowberry, and Labrador tea are important. Mat and cushion plants such as moss campion and arctic bearberry grow in dry tundra.

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Flowering plant

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Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms: a fungus and an alga.
The fungus gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics. It is  from its thallus shape.
The fungus grows by getting its energy from algae because algae can get their energy from the sun.

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Shrubs, grasses, mosses, herbs, and ferns grow around trees in the Boreal Forest.

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A variety of shrubs, herbs, grasses, mosses, and ferns grow in association with trees.

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The dominant species of trees of the boreal forest include black and white spruce, birch, aspen, and balsam poplar.

Below you'll see an image of different tree branches that are found in the tundra/boreal forest.

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Lichens, like plants, photosynthesize (they convert air, water, and sunlight into sugars for food). Lichens are a dominant organism in some tundra regions and an important nutrient source for caribou.

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Fungi of the boreal forest and tundra include mushrooms, molds, rusts, mildews, and rots.

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The microscopic organisms of the boreal forest and tundra include bacteria, algae, and protozoa. These creatures are easy to overlook since a microscope is needed to observe them. But, they are important parts of the forest and tundra. They live in the soil, water, and air and inside other living things.

This is a picture of algae in the tundra.