 Regarding bird life, researchers highlight the presence of European robin (Erithacus rubecula), a species which normally doesn’t nest in urban areas, common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) and peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), which flies above the woodland for trophic reasons.Moreover the presence of the common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) highlights the existence of temporary wet areas within the forest.Prati di Caprara appears in the novel by the Bolognese writer Riccardo Bacchelli, "The Devil at Pontelungo", which tells the Italian vicissitudes of the Russian revolutionary Michail Bakunin and his disciple Carlo Cafiero.