Animals that start with F
118 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 21 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 15 Plankton
- 36 Too Clever
- 46 Schooler
- 10 Rare
- 10 Deep Cut
- 1 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- False vampire
- Any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects.
- Fanaloka
- Civet of Madagascar.
- Flickertail
- Of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada.
- Fringe-toed lizard
- With long pointed scales around toes.
- Fairy bluebird
- Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies.
- Frost fish
- Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth.
All 118 animals that start with F
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
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| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail. | Mammals | Plankton | 2.7M | |
| Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight. | Birds | Plankton | 1M | |
| Domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K | |
| breed | Small stocky version of the bulldog having a sleek coat and square head. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| also Toad, Toad frog, Anuran | Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping. | Amphibians | Plankton | 450K |
| also Lightning bug | Nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs. | Insects | Plankton | 368K |
| Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap. | Insects | Plankton | 368K | |
| Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill. | Birds | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Vermillion flycatcher | Tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona. | Birds | Plankton | 246K |
| Two-winged insects characterized by active flight. | Insects | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Pekan, Fisher cat, Black cat | Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Any of various European and non-European marine flatfish. | Fish | Plankton | 135K | |
| Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds. | Birds | Plankton | 110K | |
| also Flying phalanger, Flying opossum | Nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Pomace fly | Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits. | Insects | Plankton | 110K |
| also Trematode, Trematode worm | Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host. | Worms | Too Clever | 91K |
| North American food and game fish. | Fish | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Holstein, Holstein-Friesianbreed | A breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Megabat | Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Livestock | Any animals kept for use or profit. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| Omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting. | Insects | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Large bat with a head that resembles the head of a fox. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K | |
| also Fossa cat | Largest carnivore of Madagascar. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Sciara, Sciarid | Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings. | Insects | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Foetus | An unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal. | Other animals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Eastern fox squirrel | Exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Pichiciago, Pichiciego, Chlamyphore | Very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| Small Eurasian deer. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Finback, Fin whale, Common rorqual | Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Platyhelminth | Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body. | Worms | Too Clever | 41K |
| Large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard with a ruff of skin around the neck. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Felid | Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| breed | An English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Domestic fowl, Poultry | A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Mudcat, Goujon, Shovelnose catfish | Large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | Small lively black-and-white terriers formerly used to dig out foxes. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | Medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Ficebreed | A nervous belligerent little mongrel dog. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| Large extremely venomous pit viper of Central America and South America. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Man-of-war bird | Long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Pseudoscorpion | Small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion. | Spiders & arachnids | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Ratite, Ratite bird | Flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches. | Birds | Too Clever | 18K |
| Fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Fly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping. | Insects | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Old World flycatcher, True flycatcher | Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Flying dragon | Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K |
| An eared seal of the northern Pacific. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| breed | A quiet plodding workhorse. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| breed | Large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Toad of central and eastern Europe having red or orange patches mixed with black on its underside. | Amphibians | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Osprey, Fish eagle | Large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Flour weevil | An insect that infests flour and stored grains. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Carinate, Carinate bird | Birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Comatulid | Free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Spotted salamander | European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots. | Amphibians | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Polecat, Foulmart, Foumart | Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Common eel | Eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Of southeast Europe and central Asia. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| A true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Earthworm, Angleworm, Fishing worm | Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil. | Worms | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial. | Reptiles | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Freshwater clam | Bivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States. | Molluscs | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Common American black cricket. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Taguan, Flying marmot | East Indian flying squirrel. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Flying cat, Colugo | Arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Fulmar petrel | Heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Common North American finch of brushy pasturelands. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Fringed gecko | A gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Flying robin | Tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Merganser, Sawbill | Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K |
| A fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Pterosaur | An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.4K |
| A cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Tiny flying phalanger. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| A variety of spittlebug. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| A kind of copepod. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Any fish used for food by human beings. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Small ferret-like badger of southeast Asia. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Gamecock | A cock bred and trained for fighting. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Snowbird | Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter. | Birds | Schooler | 1K |
| also Freetail, Freetailed bat | Small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| also River limpet | Minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants. | Molluscs | Schooler | 1K |
| also False vampire bat | Any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects. | Mammals | Rare | 880 |
| Civet of Madagascar. | Mammals | Rare | 880 | |
| also Four-lined leaf bug | Yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back. | Insects | Rare | 880 |
| also Richardson ground squirrel | Of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada. | Mammals | Rare | 480 |
| With long pointed scales around toes. | Reptiles | Rare | 480 | |
| Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies. | Birds | Rare | 320 | |
| also Cutlassfish, Hairtail | Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth. | Fish | Rare | 320 |
| Greenish-yellow Australian oriole feeding chiefly on figs and other fruits. | Birds | Rare | 260 | |
| also Fissiped mammal | Terrestrial carnivores. | Mammals | Rare | 260 |
| also Round-tailed muskrat | Of Florida wetlands. | Mammals | Rare | 210 |
| North American dark bluish-grey gallinule. | Birds | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| In some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Animals that nourish their young with milk. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| also Spindle horn | Cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 50 |
| also Almond moth | A moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored products of vegetable origin. | Insects | Deep Cut | 40 |
| A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| breed | Fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet. | Birds | Deep Cut | 30 |
| Common Eurasian bat with white-tipped hairs in its coat. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| also Biplane flying fish | Having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged. | Fish | Deep Cut | 20 |
| Any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with F
How many animals start with F?
RareList lists 118 animals that start with F, including 9 breeds. 15 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 21 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with F?
The most searched animals starting with F are Fox, Falcon, Ferret, Frog and Firefly.
What is a rare animal that starts with F?
Flycatching warbler is one of the rarest. Any of numerous American wood warblers that feed on insects caught on the wing. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: False vampire, Fanaloka and Flickertail.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
Each name is ranked by its average monthly Google searches in the United States. Fewer searches means fewer people are likely to think of it, which is what matters in games that reward unique answers. See how we rank for the details.