List of fauna of the Lower Colorado River Valley
This is a list of fauna of the Lower Colorado River Valley.
The list also includes: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and wildflowers.
Birds
- Abert's towhee
- Black rail
- Black-tailed gnatcatcher
- Black-throated sparrow
- Brown-crested flycatcher
- Cactus wren
- Crissal thrasher
- Curve-billed thrasher
- Gambel's quail
- Gila woodpecker
- Gilded flicker
- Greater roadrunner
- Killdeer
- Le Conte's thrasher
- Lesser nighthawk
- Loggerhead shrike
- Lucy's warbler
- Mourning dove
- Phainopepla
- Yuma rail
- Vermilion flycatcher
- Yellow-headed blackbird
Insects/arthropods/etc.
- Africanized bee
- Velvet ant
- Scorpion
- Tarantula
- Tarantula hawk, a spider wasp
Lepidoptera
Flora
- Yucca elata, the soaptree yucca
Wildflowers:
- Encelia
- Banana yucca--blue yucca or datil
- Joshua tree
- Mojave yucca
- Soaptree yucca
- Spoonleaf yucca
Mammals
Lizards
Snakes
- Arizona mountain king snake
- California kingsnake
- Colorado Desert sidewinder
- Desert kingsnake
- Garter snake
- Mojave Desert sidewinder
- Mojave rattlesnake
- Racer
- Rosy boa
- Western diamondback rattlesnake
Tortoise
Gallery
Greater roadrunner
Gila woodpecker
Melanerpes uropygialis
Abert's towhee
Pipilo aberti
Phainopepla
Phainopepla nitens
Yellow-headed
blackbird
Xanthocephalus
xanthocephalus
See also
- Fauna of the Sonoran Desert
- List of Sonoran Desert birds (Arizona)
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