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Owls use the tree for roosting and as a place from which to swoop down on other animals.
Woodpeckers search the bark for insects using a strong, hammer-like beak.
Deer use oak woodland for grazing. The shelter of the trees makes it easier for them to hide from hunters.
Small birds called tits fly among the branches, feeding on caterpillars. Leaves offer protection from birds of prey.
Pigeons roost on branches and eat acorns.
Caterpillars feed on leaves. Camouflage offers them protection from the birds.
Wasps irritate leaves
to make them produce hollow ‘galls’ in which the wasps lay their eggs.
Fungus lives on dead branches.
Squirrel
  An oak tree provides many places that can be used as homes. Beetles live in the roots, in the cracks of the bark and some even burrow under the bark and into the wood. Caterpillars munch away at the soft leaves.
The angles of the branches make roosting and nesting sites for birds. Natural hollows provide homes for squirrels, owls and even bats.
Bluebells, anemones and other small plants live below the tree.
The agile sparrow hawk finds small birds such as tits among the oak branches.
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