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Red Rock Canyon Wildlife

Red Rock Canyon Wildlife

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Mammals at Red Rock Canyon

  • Big Brown Bat
  • Bobcat
  • Desert Cottontail
  • Desert Woodrat
  • Gray Fox
  • Mountain Lion
  • Mule Deer
  • Ringtail Cat
  • Wild Burro
  • Wild Horse

Birds at Red Rock Canyon

  • Anna’s Hummingbird
  • Chukar
  • Cooper’s Hawk
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Golden Eagle
  • Great Horned Owls
  • House Finch
  • Kestral
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Mourning Dove
  • Red-Tailed Hawk
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • Spotted Towhee
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Western Bluebirds
  • Western Scrubjoy
  • White-crowned Sparrows
  • Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay

Arachnids at Red Rock Canyon

  • Crab Spider
  • Desert Tarantula
  • Giant Hairy Desert Scorpion
  • Metaphid Jumping Spider
  • Tunnel Spider

Insects at Red Rock Canyon

  • Arizona Sister
  • Bombyliidae
  • California Carpenter Bee
  • Damsel
  • Darkling Beetle
  • Dragonfly
  • Flame Skimmer
  • Hairstreak
  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Painted Lady Butterfly
  • Queen Butterfly
  • Sagebrush Checkerspot
  • Sphinx Moth
  • Strider
  • Tarantula Hawks
  • Triops
  • Western Tent Caterpillar

Red Rock Canyon Plants

  • Agave
  • Alfalfa
  • Alkali Mariposa Lily
  • Antelope Bitter Bush
  • Apache Plume
  • Arrowweed
  • Asian Sahara Mustard
  • Banana Yucca
  • Bastard Toadflax
  • Bastard Toadflax Fruit
  • Bindweed
  • Blackbrush
  • Bluedicks
  • Creosote Bush
  • Cottonwood
  • Crimson Columbine
  • Desert Larkspur
  • Desert Mistletoe
  • Desert Marigold
  • Desert Willow
  • Dune Primrose
  • Fishhook Nipple Cactus
  • Giant Four O’Clock
  • Hedgehog Cactus
  • Hoary Aster
  • Honey Mesquite
  • Jimson Weed
  • Joshua Tree
  • Manzanitas
  • Mesquite Honey
  • Mojave Aster
  • Mojave Yucca
  • Pencil Cholla
  • Pincushion Cactus
  • Pinyon Pine
  • Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Purple Sage
  • Scrub Oak
  • Silver Cholla
  • Single Leaf Ash
  • Utah Juniper
  • Velvet Ash
  • White Bursage
  • Wild Rhubarb
  • Yerba Mansa
  • Yerba Santa
  • Yucca

Amphibians at Red Rock Canyon

  • Baja California Chorus Frogs
  • Red Spotted Toad

Reptiles at Red Rock Canyon

  • California King Snake
  • Chuckwalla
  • Common Side-blotched Lizard
  • Desert Horned Lizard
  • Gopher Snake
  • Horned Lizard
  • Long-nosed Leopard Lizard
  • Northern Sagebrush Lizard
  • Red Racer Snake
  • Western Banded Gecko
  • Western Fence Lizard
  • Western Whiptail
  • Yellow-back Spiny Lizard

Resources Used:

  1. https://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/lasvegas/wildlife-wednesday/
  2. https://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/plants-wildlife/
  3. https://friendsredrock.org/wildlife/
  4. http://wildlifeviewingareas.com/viewing-area/red-rock-canyon-national-conservation-area/
  5. https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/Nevada-Red%20Rock%20Canyon-Plants%20and%20Animals.pdf
  6. https://nvwf.org/red-rock-canyon-national-conservation-area/

Red Rock Canyon Wildlife