List of fauna (LCRV)

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This is a List of fauna of the (Lower Colorado River Valley).

The list also includes: Lepidoptera (Butterfly & Moth), and Wildflower species.

Contents 1 Uncategorized 2 List of birds 3 List of insects/ arthropoda/ etc 4 List of lepidoptera 5 List of mammals 6 List of reptiles--lizards 7 List of reptiles--snakes 8 See also

[edit] Uncategorized

• Africanized bee
• Desert Tortoise
• Tarantula

[edit] List of birds

(Mostly alphabetical) Abert's Towhee Black Rail Black-throated Sparrow Brown-crested Flycatcher Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Mourning Dove Gila Woodpecker Gilded Flicker Phainopepla Gambel's Quail

(Yuma) Clapper Rail Greater Roadrunner Crissal Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Le Conte's Thrasher Vermilion Flycatcher Lucy's Warbler Cactus Wren Yellow-headed Blackbird

Other common birds:

Killdeer

Lesser Nighthawk Loggerhead Shrike

[edit] List of insects/ arthropoda/ etc

• Africanized bee
• Tarantula hawk--Spider wasp
• Velvet Ant

• Scorpion
• Tarantula

[edit] List of lepidoptera

Yucca moth

Some associated flora:

• Yucca elata, the Soaptree yucca

Wildflower list:

• Encelia
• Yucca:
  • Banana yucca--Blue Yucca, or Datil
  • Joshua Tree
  • Mojave yucca
  • Soaptree yucca
  • Spoonleaf yucca

[edit] List of mammals

• Bobcat
• Collared peccary–Peccary
• Desert Bighorn Sheep

• Kit Fox
• Mule deer
• Muskrat
• Pronghorn
• Cougar–Puma--Mountain lion
• Rats:
  • Cotton rat
  • Desert Woodrat
  • Pack rat–Packrat

List of US mammals:

• Black-tailed Jackrabbit
• Groundhog

[edit] List of reptiles--lizards

Chuckwalla Common Collared Lizard See Gambelia Desert horned lizard Desert iguana–(?) Fringe-toed lizard

Gecko Granite spiny lizard Skink,--(species ?) Five-lined Skink Side-blotched lizard–Uta (the lizard) Common side-blotched lizard Western fence lizard--(?) Five-lined Skink

[edit] List of reptiles--snakes

• King snake
• California Kingsnake--(?)
• Desert Kingsnake
• Mojave rattlesnake
• Mojave Desert sidewinder
• Colorado Desert sidewinder
• Western diamondback rattlesnake
• Racer (snake)
• Rosy boa

Other common snakes:

• Garter snake

Greater Roadrunner

Gila Woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis

Burrowing Owl

Abert's Towhee Pipilo aberti

Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens

Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

[edit] See also

• The category: Category:Fauna of the United States
• List of Sonoran Desert birds (Arizona)