Wind River Ranch Birds

Western meadowlark (photo by Steve Zack)

Special thanks to Martin MacRoberts and Jo Osterhouse of the Audubon Society Important Bird Area Program

Wind River Ranch Herps and Fish (Incomplete list)

Woodhouse toad (photo by Rich Reading)

Salamanders
Tiger Salamander  (Amystoma tigrinum)                                                                

Toads and Frogs
Woodhouse toad (Bufo woodhousi)
Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana)
Northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens)

Turtles
Snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

Lizards
Collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglassi)
Prairie lizard (Sceloperus undulatus)
Plateau striped whiptail (Cnemidophorus velox)
Many-lined skink (Eumeces multivirgatus)
Great Plains skink (Eumeces obsoletus)

Snakes
Racer (Coluber constrictor)
Ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus)
Corn snake (Elaphae guttata)
Western hog-nose snake (Heterodon nasicus)
Smooth green snake (Liochlorophis vernalis)
Bullsnake (Pituophis melanoleucus)
Common kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)
Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
Blackneck garter snake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis)
Western terrestrail garter snake (Thamnphis elegans)
Lined snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum)
Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridus)

Fish
Creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)
Rio Grande chub (Gila pandora)
Central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum)
Long-nosed dace (Rhinichthys cataractae)
White sucker (Catostomus commersoni)
Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

the Rio Grande cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis) has been extirpated

                                                Mammals

Desert cottontail (Silvilagus audubonii)
Black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus)
Pine chipmunk (Tamias amoenus)
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus)
Rock squirrel (Spermophilus variegatus)
Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni)
Northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Striped skunk (Mephitus mephitus)
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracialis)
Common hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leuconotus)
North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
American beaver (Castor canadensis)
Common muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
American badger (Taxidea taxus)
Long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Puma (Puma concolor)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
American black bear (Ursus americanus)
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Elk (Cervus elaphus)
Bison (Bison bison)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
White-footed deer mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
Piñon deer mouse (Peromyscus truei)
White-throated woodrat (Neotoma albigula)
Mexican woodrat (Neotoma mexicana)
Ord’s kangeroo rat (Dipodomys ordii)
Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomonys bottae)
Desert shrew (Notiosorex crawfordi)