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Mammals Reptiles Amphibians Fish Birds Prairie Species List Key : Northern Grasshopper Mouse Walleye Perch (int) imperiled (i) Olive-backed Pocket Mouse Northern Pike rare (r) Prairie Vole Brook Stickleback endemic (e) Sagebrush Vole River Carpsucker Western Harvest Mouse White Sucker MAMMALS Western Jumping Mouse Bigmouth Buffalo Sucker White-footed Mouse Pumpkinseed Sunfish BATS SQUIRRELS *Fish listed above are likely to be Big Brown Bat Black-tailed Prairie Dog on the APR based on recent fish California Myotis Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel surveys directly on and near the Hoary Bat Least Chipmunk Reserve. Future surveys may Little Brown Myotis Richardson’s Ground Squirrel add or eliminate species from Long-eared Myotis Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel this list. Long-legged Myotis Yellow-bellied Marmot Silver-haired Bat Townsend’s Big-eared Bat BIRDS UNGULATES Western Small-footed Myotis Big Horn Sheep CHICKADEES, CREEPERS Bison BEAVERS Black-capped Chickadee Elk Beaver Brown Creeper (r) Moose Mountain Chickadee Mule Deer CARNIVORES Red-breasted Nuthatch Pronghorn Badger White-tailed Deer Bobcat CUCKOOS Coyote Black-billed Cuckoo Least Weasel REPTILES Long-tailed Weasel DOVES Mink Bull Snake Mourning Dove Mountain Lion Common Sagebrush Lizard Rock Dove (r) Raccoon Eastern Racer Snake Red Fox Greater Short-horned Lizard FINCHES River Otter Painted Turtle American Goldfinch Short-tail Weasel Plains Gartersnake Cassin’s Finch Striped Skunk Prairie Rattlesnake Common Redpoll Snapping turtle Evening Grosbeak (r) GOPHERS Western Hog-nosed Snake Gray-crowned Rosy-finch Northern Pocket Gopher Hoary Redpoll (r) AMPHIBIANS House Finch INSECTIVORES House Sparrow Hayden’s Shrew Pine Grosbeak Boreal Chorus Frog Masked Shrew Pine Siskin Great Plains Toad Merriam’s Shrew Red Crossbill Northern Leopard Frog Montana Shrew Plains Spadefoot Toad FLYCATCHERS Tiger Salamander PORCUPINES Alder Flycatcher Woodhouse’s Toad Porcupine Dusky Flycatcher (r) Eastern Kingbird RABBITS FISH Least Flycatcher Desert Cottontail introduced (int) Say’s Phoebe Mountain Cottontail Western Kingbird White-tailed Jackrabbit Black Bullhead Catfish (int) Western Wood-pewee Lake Chub Minnow Willow Flycatcher (r) RODENTS Common Carp Minnow (int) Bushytail Woodrat Brassy Minnow GOATSUCKERS, SWIFTS Deer Mouse Plains Minnow Chimney Swift (r) House Mouse Spottail Shiner Minnow Common Nighthawk Longtail Vole Northern Redbelly Dace Minnow Common Poorwill Meadow Vole Fathead Minnow White-throated Swift Mountain Vole Longnose Dace Minnow Muskrat Iowa Darter Perch GROSBEAKS, SPARROWS LARKS, SWALLOWS Red-tailed Hawk American Tree Sparrow Bank Swallow Rough-legged Hawk Baird’s Sparrow (i, e) Barn Swallow Sharp-shinned Hawk Black-headed Grosbeak Cliff Swallow Swainson’s Hawk (i) Blue Grosbeak Horned Lark (i) Turkey Vulture (r) Brewer’s Sparrow (i, r, e) Northern Rough-winged Swallow Chestnut-collared Longspur (i, e) Tree Swallow SHOREBIRDS Chipping Sparrow American Avocet Clay-colored Sparrow LOONS, GREBES Baird’s Sandpiper Dark-eyed Junco Clark’s Grebe Black Tern Field Sparrow Common Loon Black-bellied Plover (r) Fox Sparrow Eared Grebe Black-necked Stilt Grasshopper Sparrow (i) Horned Grebe Bonaparte’s Gull Green-tailed Towhee (r) Pied-billed Grebe California Gull Harris’ Sparrow Red-necked Grebe (r) Caspian Tern Indigo Bunting (r) Western Grebe Common Snipe Lapland Longspur Common Tern Lark Bunting (i, e) MEADOWLARKS, Dunlin (r) Lark Sparrow BLACKBIRDS Forster’s Tern Lazuli Bunting (r) Bobolink (i) Franklin’s Gull (i) Le Conte’s Sparrow Brewer’s Blackbird Greater Yellowlegs Lincoln’s Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Herring Gull McCown’s Longspur (i, r, e) Bullock’s (Northern) Oriole Killdeer Rose-breasted Grosbeak Common Grackle (r) Least Sandpiper Rufous-sided Towhee Orchard Oriole (r) Lesser Yellowlegs Savannah Sparrow (i) Red-winged Blackbird Long-billed Curlew (i, e) Snow Bunting (r) Rusty Blackbird (r) Long-billed Dowitcher Song Sparrow Western Meadowlark (i) Marbled Godwit (i, e) Spotted (Great Plains) Towhee Yellow-headed Blackbird Mountain Plover (i, e) Vesper Sparrow (i) Pectoral Sandpiper White-crowned Sparrow OWLS Piping Plover (i) White-throated Sparrow Burrowing Owl (i) Red Knot Eastern Screech-owl Red Phalarope HERONS Great Horned Owl Red-necked Phalarope American Bittern Long-eared Owl Ring-billed Gull Black-crowned Night Heron Northern Saw-whet Owl Ruddy Turnstone (r) Cattle Egret (r) Short-eared Owl (i) Sabine’s Gull Great Blue Heron Snowy Owl (r) Sanderling Green-backed Heron Semi-palmated Sandpiper Snowy Egret (r) PELICANS Short-billed Dowitcher White-faced Ibis American White Pelican (i) Solitary Sandpiper Double-crested Cormorant Spotted Sandpiper HUMMINGBIRDS Stilt Sandpiper (r) Ruby-throated Hummingbird RAILS, CRANES Upland Sandpiper (i) American Coot Western Sandpiper JAYS, CROWS Sandhill Crane Whimbrel (r) American Crow Sora White-rumped Sandpiper (r) American Magpie Virginia Rail (r) Willet Blue Jay (r) Wilson’s Phalarope (i, e) Clark’s Nutcracker (r) RAPTORS Common Raven (r) American Kestrel SWANS, GEESE, DUCKS Pinyon Jay Bald Eagle American Black Duck (r) Broad-winged Hawk (r) American Wigeon KINGFISHERS, Cooper’s Hawk (r) Barrow’s Goldeneye (r) WOODPECKERS Ferruginous Hawk (i, r, e) Blue-winged Teal Belted Kingfisher Golden Eagle Bufflehead Downy Woodpecker Merlin Canada Goose Hairy Woodpecker Northern Goshawk Canvasback Northern Flicker Northern Harrier (i) Cinnamon Teal (r) Red-headed Woodpecker (i) Osprey Common Goldeneye Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (r) Peregrine Falcon (r) Common Merganser Prairie Falcon (i) Gadwall Greater White-fronted Goose (r) Mourning Warbler Green-winged Teal Northern Waterthrush (r) Hooded Merganser (r) Orange-crowned Warbler (r) Lesser Scaup Ovenbird Mallard Palm Warbler (r) Northern Pintail Tennessee Warbler (r) Northern Shoveler Townsend’s Warbler Red-breasted Merganser Wilson’s Warbler Redhead Duck Yellow Warbler Ring-necked Duck (r) Yellow-breasted Chat Ross’ Goose (r) Yellow-rumped Warbler Ruddy Duck Snow Goose WAXWINGS, SHRIKES Tundra Swan (r) Bohemian Waxwing White-winged Scoter (r) Cedar Waxwing Wood Duck (r) European Starling Loggerhead Shrike TANAGERS Northern Shrike (r) Western Tanager WRENS THRASHERS House Wren American Pipit (r) Marsh Wren (r) Brown Thrasher Rock Wren Gray Catbird Winter Wren Northern Mockingbird (r) Sage Thrasher (i) Sprague’s Pipit (i, e) THRUSHES American Robin Golden-crowned Kinglet (r) Gray-cheeked Thrush (r) Hermit Thrush (r) Mountain Bluebird Ruby-crowned Kinglet (r) Swainson’s Thrush (r) Townsend’s Solitaire (r) Varied Thrush Veery (r) Wood Thrush UPLAND GAME Chukar Gray Partridge Greater Sage Grouse (i) Ring-necked Pheasant Sharp-tailed Grouse (i) Wild Turkey VIREOS Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo WARBLERS American Redstart Black-and-white Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler (r) Cape May Warbler Common Yellowthroat Macgillivray’s Warbler (r) Magnolia Warbler .
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