A powerful bird of prey, the bald eagle is our national symbol. However, bald eagles almost went extinct by the 1970s. They have rebounded in the decades since then, with the Minnesota-Wisconsin border hosting one of the most successful recoveries.

Great horned owls are the most common owls in Minnesota and perhaps the most adaptable on the continent. Like all owls, they are excellent hunters, with silent flight, night vision, sensitive hearing, large talons and hooked beaks.

Large, long-legged and lumpy, moose wander woods and waterways gobbling grasses and other plants to nourish their big bodies. Unlike other deer that travel in herds, these animals most often live alone or in small family groups.

Pumas are known by many common names including cougars, mountain lions, panthers, catamounts, and others.
Silent and elusive, pumas are extremely rare in Minnesota. Few Minnesotans have ever seen one of these large predators in the wild. If you think you have seen a wild puma, report what you saw to a conservation officer from the

Pigs, hogs, swine: all of these are names for wild or domestic members of the scientific family Suidae. They are hoofed mammals with four toes on each foot. Humans have been raising pigs for more than 9,000 years. Domestic pigs are descended mainly from Eurasian wild boars, Sus scrofa.