İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park mixed wood. Vine species are the most distinct plants of the forest. Sprecies of European ash ("Fraxinus excelsior"), oak ("Quercus"), alder ("(Alnus"), beech ("Fagaceae") and maple ("Aceraceae") are trees found in the national park forest. Trout ("Oncorhynchus"), smelt ("Osmeridae"), grey mullet ("Mugilidae") are fish species of the national park. Birds like white-tailed eagle ("Haliaeetus albicilla"), European green woodpecker ("Picus viridis"), owl ("Strigiformes"), grey heron ("Ardea cinerea"), European cuckoo ("Cuculus canorus"), kingfisher ("Coraciiformes"), black stork ("Ciconia nigra)") and hoopoe ("Upupa epops") are observed in the area. Among the mammals are wildcat ("Felis silvestris"), wild boar ("Sus scrofa"), hare ("Lepus"), European pine
The Origin of Birds exquisite detail the fossil remains of several extinct birds, including "Hesperornis", "Ichthyornis", "Archaeopteryx", and ""Archaeornis"", the name used commonly at the time for the Berlin specimen, which was then thought to represent a separate genus. Throughout this section are many finely detailed and labeled renderings of different parts of the skeletal anatomy of these birds, as well as other groups of extinct reptiles and some modern birds. Heilmann's attention to detail in his artwork is inspired at least in part by his dissatisfaction with anatomical renderings of these animals in scholarly works of the time, which he deemed as "unsatisfactory"