Black-Footed Ferret
About Black-footed ferrets are slender, wiry animals with black facemasks, black feet and black-tipped tails. They live in prairies and grassland, dependent on the habitat’s prairie dogs as a food and...
View ArticleBlack Crappie
About Introduced to Arizona in 1905. Head and back heavily and irregularly spotted with black blotches on a silver-olive background; tail, dorsal and anal fins are spotted. Seven or eight spines on...
View ArticleBlack Bear
About Black bears are the most common and widely distributed of the three North American bears. Historically, black bears occurred in all forested habitats in North America, including Mexico. The...
View ArticleBison
About Bison are an American conservation success story and an icon of wildlife conservation. In 2016 to commemorate it’s storied past, bison were recognized as the official U.S. mammal. Several recent...
View ArticleBighorn Sheep
About At their peak, North American bighorn sheep numbers were estimated at 2 million. Desert populations have since fallen to about 20,000 and Rocky Mountain populations are at about 45,000....
View ArticleBand-tailed Pigeon
About Band-tailed pigeons live in mixed conifer forests, ponderosa pine forests, or in dense stands of evergreen oaks and pines between 4,500 and 9,100 feet elevation. They are about the size of a...
View ArticleArctic Grayling
About The Grayling dorsal fin has 17 to 25 rays. The tail fin is forked. The body has scattered black spots on silver-gray sides that sometimes have a pinkish hue. The scales on the grayling are much...
View ArticleApache Trout
About Apache trout typically spawn in early spring. Females excavate redds (nests) in the gravel, after fertilization the eggs are covered with gravel. Generally sexually mature by age 3. Apache trout...
View ArticleArizona Treefrog
About The Arizona treefrog becomes active with the onset of summer rains, forages in grassy areas near water, occasionally climbs trees, and eats insects, spiders, earthworms and other invertebrates....
View ArticleAllen’s Lappet-browed Bat
About The Allen’s lappet-browed bat makes an audible loud “peep” at a frequency of about once per second when flying across open spaces. Limited information on food habits suggests that this bat feeds...
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