Reptiles and Amphibians

Great Basin Spadefoot Toad, Spea intermontana

Painted Desert Whiptail, Aspidoscelis velox

Plateau Striped Whiptail, Aspidoscelis velox

Short-horned Lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi

Side-blotched Lizard,Uta stansburiana

Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus graciosus

Long-nosed Leopard Lizard, Gambelia wislizenii

Great Basin Gopher Snake. Pituophis catenifer deserticola

Wandering Garter Snake, Thamnophis elegans

Racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris

Birds

See the list below

• Gambel’s Quail*
• Ring-necked Pheasant (adjacent ag lands)
• Turkey Vulture
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Harrier *
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• Sandhill Crane (o)
• Whooping Crane (o)
• Killdeer
• Upland Sandpiper
• Mourning Dove*
• Rock Dove (o)
• Barn Owl (Adjacent Ag lands)
• Great Horned Owl
• Burrowing Owl*
• Short-eared Owl
• Common Poorwill
• White-Throated Swift
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
• Belted Kingfisher (o)
• Northern Flicker
• American Kestrel
• Peregrine Falcon
• Prairie Falcon
• Western Kingbird
• Say’s Phoebe
• Loggerhead Shrike *
• Common Raven
• Black-Billed Magpie
• Horned Lark *
• Tree Swallow
• Violet-Green Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Rock Wren*
• Mountain Bluebird
• Sage Thrasher*
• Northern Mockingbird *
• Lapland Longspur
• Brewer’s Sparrow*
• Lark Sparrow *
• Lark Bunting
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Western Meadowlark *
• Bullock’s Oriole
• House Finch
  *indicates breeding on the site, o indicates only observed flying high overhead

Mammals

We don’t have a good idea of identity of many of the mammals found at the site, particularly the rodents and the bats. Here is a gallery of pictures with a list of the known species below