🦌 French Forest Animals Names

Learn the French forest animal names presented as a simple French vocabulary list with English translations.

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!

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

3 – French Forest Birds Names

1. Un oiseau = a bird (plural: des oiseaux with a silent x)
2. Une pie = a magpie
3. Un pic vert = woodpecker
4. Un hibou = an 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 = a small owl
14. Un rapace = prey bird

2 – Rare 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 cerf = a deer
5. Un loup = wolf
6. Un bouquetin = ibex, mountain sheep
7. Un lynx = lynx
8. Un ours = bear
9. Une vipère = viper
10. Un vautour = vulture
11. Un aigle = eagle