There are a bunch of mammals that visit or live in Heartland Forest such as, bats, coyotes, chipmunks, rabbits, squirrels, muskrats, opossums, raccoons, foxes, and deer!

Heartland Forest is home to Both Barn swallows and tree swallows! If you see a bird with blue back and a white throat that’s a tree swallow! If the bird has a blue back with a red throat that a barn swallow!

Turtles can be seen sunbathing to regulate their temperature, they are called exotherms or “cold blooded”.

The white-tailed deer has 4 stomachs! These deer also mark their territory by rubbing bark off trees.