Flora & Fauna - What We've Seen on the Owyhee
Birds
- American Avocet
- American Coot
- American Robin
- American White Pelicans
- Burrowing Owls
- California Quail
- Canada Geese
- Canyon Wrens
- Cave Swallows
- Chukar
- Common Mergansers
- Common Poorwill
- Common Raven
- Common Terns
- Flycatcher
- Golden Eagles
- Great Blue Herons
- Great Horned Owls
- Gulls
- Horned Larks
- Killdeer
- Long-billed Curlews
- Long-eared Owls
- Magpie
- Mallard Ducks
- Meadowlarks
- Night Hawks
- Northern Harrier
- Painted Bunting, rare, only once
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Rock Doves
- Sage Grouse
- Sage Sparrows
- Sandpiper
- Turkey Vulture
- Western or Clark’s Grebe
- Western Tanager
- Yellow-breasted Chats
Flowers
- Arrowleaf Balsamroot
- Apricot Globe Mallow
- Asters
- Bitterroot
- Blazing Star
- Brodiaea
- Buckwheat – Many types
- Camas
- Death Camas
- Daisies
- Desert Paint Brush
- Dwarf Goldenweed
- Fremont Phacelia
- Hop Sage
- Hybrid Balsamroot
- Larkspur
- Loco Weed
- Lupine
- Nine-leaved Desert Parsley
- Northern Wyethia or Mules Ear
- Oregon Sunshine
- Penstemon
- Pink Plox
- Primrose, Many Types
- Purple Prairie Clover
- Purple Sage
- Sego Lily
- Shooting Stars
- Sicky Geranium
- Sweet Vetch
- Wild Flax
- Wild Onion
- Yarrow
- Yellow Monkey Flower
Critters
- Antelope
- Badger
- Beaver
- Bobcat
- Bull Snakes
- California Bighorn Sheep
- Collared Lizard
- Cottontail Rabbits
- Cougar
- Coyotes
- Jack Rabbits
- Muskrats
- Pygmy Rabbit
- Racoon
- Rattlesnakes, Hundreds!
- River Otter
- Spotted Frogs
- Western Fence Lizards
- White Tail Deer