| Just south of the northern boreal forests is a deciduous forest community thought of as a "transition" between the boreal forest and the warmer broad-leaved forests. In eastern North America, this transition forest is dominated by maples, beeches, and birch trees, which draw crowds of visitors every year for their unusually impressive display of fall colors. |
A variety of maple species. Photo by Maya Walters.
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Sugar maples, which are commonly tapped for their sap that is boiled for maple syrup, grow in this forest. This area is also inhabited by the sapsucker woodpecker, which as their name suggests, have an unusual diet that includes tree sap. |
| These forests are not exclusively broad-leaved, however, and many coniferous trees grow here that also grow slightly farther north in the boreal forests. There are few areas anywhere in the temperate zone where forests consist only of broad-leaved or only of coniferous trees. |
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