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Berlin has a good collection of urban forests and lakes, which invite some fun wildlife to rub shoulders with the city's many rats, pigeons, crows, magpies, sparrows, and starlings. Foxes, rabbits, and racoons are common. Hedgehogs are shy but if you're out in a park at night you might be lucky enough to see one. Around dusk, bats start to replace swifts in the air. Swans dominate the Landwehr canal but leave enough space for coots, mallards, and mandarin ducks. On lakes you'll likely see cormorants and herons too, and turtles emerge to sun themselves on logs. Hear rustling in the bushes? It's probably a blackbird but it might be a squirrel--which are incredibly cute in Berlin, with deep red fur, long tufts on the ears, and bushy tails. If you look out for birds, you'll see tawny jays, nuthatches, and a variety of finches, tits, and woodpeckers. Not all tits and peckers in the Berlin wild, however, are fairly classifiable as wildlife, but belong rather to elderly East Berliners who treat them to sun and fresh air during summer months.