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

Yucca moth

Flora

• Yucca elata, the soaptree yucca

Wildflowers:

• Encelia
• Banana yucca--blue yucca or datil
• Joshua tree
• Mojave yucca
• Soaptree yucca
• Spoonleaf yucca

Mammals

• Black-tailed jackrabbit
• Bobcat
• Collared peccary
• Cotton rat
• Cougar, puma or mountain lion
• Desert bighorn sheep
• Desert woodrat
• Groundhog
• Kit fox
• Mule deer
• Muskrat
• Pack rat
• Pronghorn

Lizards

• Chuckwalla
• Common collared lizard
• Common side-blotched lizard
• Desert horned lizard
• Desert iguana–(?)
• Five-lined skink
• Fringe-toed lizard
• Gecko
• Granite spiny lizard
• Western fence lizard

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

• Desert 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)