Animals & Nature
North American Wildlife Quiz
From bald eagles to bison, test your knowledge of North America's most iconic and fascinating wildlife.
From bald eagles to bison, test your knowledge of North America's most iconic and fascinating wildlife.
North America is home to an extraordinary range of wildlife, from the grizzly bears of Alaska to the manatees of Florida. Perhaps no story is more dramatic than the American bison: once numbering 60 million across the Great Plains, they were hunted to fewer than 1,000 by 1889 before conservation efforts brought the population back to roughly 500,000 today. This quiz covers 50 questions spanning the continent's most iconic, endangered, and surprising animals.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from our pool of 50, so no two sessions are the same. Choose from four multiple-choice answers, get instant feedback with expert explanations, and share your score to challenge friends who think they know their North American fauna.
Questions span bald eagles and their remarkable recovery, grizzly and black bears, gray wolves and their Yellowstone reintroduction, pronghorn antelope, coyotes thriving in cities, beavers as ecosystem engineers, California condors brought back from the brink, monarch butterfly migration, extinct species like the passenger pigeon, and much more.
By deaths per year, deer are the most dangerous animal in North America — not through aggression, but because deer-vehicle collisions cause roughly 200 fatalities annually in the United States alone. Among predators, black bears, grizzlies, and cougars each cause only a handful of deaths per year.
The bald eagle was devastated by the pesticide DDT, which thinned eggshells and caused reproductive failure. After DDT was banned in 1972, combined with habitat protection and breeding programs, bald eagle populations recovered dramatically and the species was delisted from the Endangered Species Act in 2007.
Grizzly bears are larger (up to 800 lbs vs 400 lbs), have a distinctive shoulder hump of muscle, shorter rounded ears, and longer claws. Black bears are more common, better tree climbers, and generally less aggressive. Confusingly, black bears can be brown in color, so size and shoulder hump are more reliable identifiers.
Last updated: March 2026