45 French Forest Animals Names 🦌

Here are some of the animals you could find in a French forest. Would you like me make a better list? Please add suggestion in French with English translation in the comment and I’ll add them to the list! Thank you!

20 Common French Forest Animals Names

These animals you could pretty much find in any French forest. If you come for an French immersion stay in my house, you may see them!

1. Une biche = a doe
2. Un chevreuil = a roe deer
3. Un cerf = deer
4. Un écureuil = a squirrel
5. Un rat = rat
6. Un rat d’eau = water rat
7. Une souris = mouse
8. Une fouine= a weasel
9. Un lièvre = a hare
10. Un lapin = a rabbit
11. Un blaireau = a badger
12. Un sanglier = a boar
13. Un renard = a fox
14. Un hérisson = a hedgehog
15. Une chauve-souris = a bat
16. Une couleuvre = corn snake (a non venomous snake)
17. Un putois = a skunk
18. Une taupe = a mole
19. Une grenouille = a frog
20. Un crapaud = a toad

15 French Forest Birds Names

1. Un oiseau = a bird (plural: des oiseaux with a silent x)
2. Une pie = magpie
3. Un pic vert = woodpecker
4. Un hibou = owl
5. Un canard = duck
6. Une poule d’eau = gallinule (a sort of aquatique bird)
7. Un héron = heron
8. Un corbeau = raven
9. Une corneille = small crow
10. Un merle = blackbird
11. Un pigeon sauvage = wild pigeon
12. Une tourterelle = dove
13. Une chouette = small owl
14. Un rapace = prey bird
15. Un faucon = hawk

10 Rare French Forest Animals Names

Here are some animals you could find in some specific forests of France, but that are not really common.

1. Une loutre = an otter
2. Un castor = a beaver
3. Un raton laveur = a raccoon
4. Un loup = wolf
5. Un bouquetin = ibex, mountain sheep
6. Un lynx = lynx
7. Un ours = bear
8. Une vipère = viper
9. Un vautour = vulture
10. Un aigle = eagle