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
Evolution of birds Evolution of birds The evolution of birds began in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from a clade of theropoda dinosaurs named Paraves. Birds are categorized as a biological class, Aves. For more than a century, the small theropod dinosaur "Archaeopteryx lithographica" from the Late Jurassic period was considered to have been the earliest bird. Modern phylogenies place birds in the dinosaur clade Theropoda. According to the current consensus, Aves and a sister group, the order Crocodilia, together are the sole living members of an unranked "reptile" clade, the Archosauria. Four distinct lineages of bird survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary