Meet the Residents
A wonderful array of wildlife and plants reside on the Southern Plains Land Trust preserves. The following lists are of animals and plants that have been observed on or near our grassland properties.
Badger
Black Bear
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Bobcat
Coyote
Deer Mouse
Desert Cottontail
Elk
Meadow Vole
Mule Deer
Northern Pocket Gopher
Porcupine
Pronghorn
Striped Skunk
Swift Fox
White-tailed Deer
Texas Horned Lizard
Eastern Fence Lizard
Lesser Earless Lizard
Prairie Lined Racerunner
Rattlesnake
Bull Snake
Whipsnake
Coachwhip
Plains Garter Snake
Common Garter Snake
Racer
Western Box Turtle
Painted Turtle
Tiger Salamander
Bull Frog
Burrowing Owl
Barn Owl
Long-Eared Owl
Short-Eared Owl
Great Horned Owl
White-tailed Kite
Ferruginous Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Northern Harrier
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture
American Kestrel
Merlin
Prairie Falcon
Great Blue Heron
White-faced Ibis
Killdeer
American Golden Plover
Long-billed Curlew
Upland Plover
Willet
Greater Yellowleg
Marbled Godwit
Sandhill Crane
Scaled Quail
Greater Roadrunner
Ring-necked Pheasant
Turkey
American Coot
White Pelican
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
White-throated Swift
Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Cassin’s Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting
Common Raven
American Crow
Western Meadowlark
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Cassin’s Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Skylark
Horned Lark
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-billed Magpie
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Western Tanager
Lazuli Bunting
Cassin’s Finch
House Finch
Canyon Towhee
Junco
Canon Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
American Robin
Veery
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
House Sparrow
Bobolink
Common Nighthawk
Northern Flicker
Red Headed Woodpecker
Loggerhead Shrike
Bullock’s Oriole
Goldfinch
Butterflies
- Blues
- Monarch butterfly
- Sulphurs
- Western fritillary
- Whites
Biscuit root
Blue grama
Broom snakeweed
Buffalo gourd
Buffalograss
Colorado green gentian
Coppermallow
Cottonwood
Curlycup gumweed
Dakota verbena
Four-wing saltbush
Golden flax
Green milkweed
Indian paintbrush
Indian ricegrass
Lavender leaf evening primrose
Little bluestem
Needle-and-thread
Nipple cactus
One-seed juniper
Penstemon species
Pink paintbrush
Plains prickly pear
Prairie larkspur
Prickly poppy
Prince’s plume
Puccoon
Purple groundcherry
Purple prairie coneflower (echinacea)
Purple three-awn
Rabbitbrush
Sand lily
Sand onion
Sand sage
Sand verbena
Scarlet gaura
Sideoats grama
Slim-flowered scurf pea
Snow-on-the-mountain
Soaptree yucca
Spiderwort
Spike gilia
Stickleaf mentzelia
Stiff flax
Switchgrass
Ten-petaled mentzelia
Tree cholla
Wavyleaf thistle
Western wheatgrass
Wild blue flax
Willow
Winterfat
Yellow prairie coneflower
Yellowspine thistle
About prairie dogs
Black-tailed prairie dogs are one of the most ecologically important species in the Great Plains, and they are welcome on our properties. For more than a century, they have been the subject of misinformation and persecution. For a fresh perspective on this small but mighty creature, check out SPLT’s factsheets.
Fact Sheet #1: Debunking Common Prairie Dog Myths
Fact Sheet #2: The Ecological Importance of Prairie Dogs
CONTACT US
Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT)
PO Box 1016, Lamar, CO 81052
217.621.6007
splt@southernplains.org
A special thanks to the SPLT photographers!