Fauna Index
Checklist of the Amphibians, Birds, Butterflies, Mammals, and Reptiles on the Home Draw Ranch.
Based on visits made from May, 2007, through May, 2008, this is very much a partial list at this time. All listed animals have been seen on the ranch: in many cases, however, abundance classes had to be extrapolated from other data sets collected in the region or more general sources of natural history information.
Please report any observations of wildlife that would alter this list in any way to: Anthony Allan Hewetson terrverts@yahoo.com.
| Sightings | Months | |
|---|---|---|
| A = Abundant (present in large numbers) | NDJFM = November – March | |
| C = Common (present in moderate numbers) | DJF = December – February | |
| U = Uncommon (present in low numbers) | MAM = March – May | |
| R = Rare (likely seen annually during the season) | AM = April – May | |
| O = Occasional (likely seen every 2-5 years during the season) | JJA = June – August | |
| ASO = August – October | ||
| SO = September – October | ||
| SON = September – November |
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| Amphibians | DJF | MAM | JJA | SON | Birds | NDDJFM | AM | JJA | SO | |||||||||
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| Bullfrog | C | C | C | American Avocet | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Couch’s Spadefoot | RC | R | RC | American Crow | R | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Great Plains Toad | RC | R | RC | American Goldfinch | UC | U | U | |||||||||||
| Green Toad | RC | R | RC | American Kestrel | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Northern Cricket Frog | CA | U | CA | American Redstart | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Plains Leopard Frog | R | CA | C | CA | American Robin | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Spotted Chorus Frog | R | CA | U | CA | American Wigeon | UC | RU | |||||||||||
| Tiger Salamander | R | RC | R | RC | Ash-throated Flycatcher | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Woodhouse’s Toad | RC | R | RC | Barn Owl | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||||||
| Belted Kingfisher | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Black Tern | O | O | ||||||||||||||||
| Butterflies | NDJFM | AM | JJA | SO | Blackandwhite Warbler | R | R | |||||||||||
| American Lady | U | C | UC | Black-bellied Plover | O | |||||||||||||
| Black Swallowtail | U | U | U | Black-chinned Hummingbird | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Bordered Patch | U | C | CA | Black-headed Grosbeak | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Bronze Roadside Skipper | U | U | Blue Grosbeak | UC | C | UC | ||||||||||||
| Cabbage White | R | R | R | R | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | R | R | R | R | |||||||||
| Checkered White | R | A | A | C | Blue-headed Vireo | O | O | |||||||||||
| Clouded Sulphur | R | R | R | Bronzed Cowbird | U | U | R | |||||||||||
| Common Buckeye | CA | CA | CA | Brown Thrasher | R | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Common Checkered Skipper | R | UC | CA | CA | Brown-headed Cowbird | UC | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||
| Common Sootywing | UC | CA | CA | Bufflehead | U | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Common Wood Nymph | U | CA | CA | Bullock’s Oriole | UC | UC | U | |||||||||||
| Dainty Sulphur | U | C | A | C | Burrowing Owl | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Dotted Checkerspot | U | U | Canvasback | UA | RU | |||||||||||||
| Dotted Roadside Skipper | UC | UC | UC | Canyon Towhee | R | RU | R | RU | ||||||||||
| Fiery Skipper | U | U | U | Canyon Wren | R | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Funereal Duskywing | U | U | Carolina Wren | R | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Goatweed Leafwing | UC | UC | UC | Cassin’s Sparrow | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||
| Gorgone Checkerspot | U | U | UC | Cedar Waxwing | R | R | R | |||||||||||
| Gray Hairstreak | R | C | C | A | Chihuahuan Raven | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Green Skipper | C | C | C | Chimney Swift | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Gulf Fritillary | U | U | C | Chipping Sparrow | R | UA | UA | |||||||||||
| Hackberry Emperor | R | UC | UC | UC | Clay-colored Sparrow | RC | RC | |||||||||||
| Juniper Hairstreak | CA | C | C | Cliff Swallow | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||
| Little Yellow | U | U | UC | Common Grackle | R | U | U | R | ||||||||||
| Lupine Blue | U | U | Common Nighthawk | U | U | U | ||||||||||||
| Lyside Sulphur | R | R | R | Common Poorwill | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Monarch | CA | U | CA | Common Raven | R | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Mourning Cloak | R | U | U | U | Common Yellowthroat | O | RU | RU | ||||||||||
| Nysa Roadside Skipper | CA | C | C | Cordilleran Flycatcher | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Orange Skipperling | R | C | C | C | Curve-billed Thrasher | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Orange Sulphur | U | C | C | Dark-eyed Junco | UC | R | R | |||||||||||
| Oslar’s Roadside Skipper | U | U | Dickcissel | R | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Outis Skipper | U | Eastern Meadowlark | U | R | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Painted Lady | CA | U | U | Eastern Phoebe | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Pearl Crescent | C | A | A | Field Sparrow | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Phaon Crescent | C | C | C | Fox Sparrow | R | |||||||||||||
| Pipevine Swallowtail | U | R | R | Gadwall | UC | R | R | RU | ||||||||||
| Queen | UC | UC | CA | Golden-fronted Woodpecker | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Reakirt’s Blue | R | U | C | U | Gray Catbird | O | R | |||||||||||
| Red Admiral | R | U | UC | UC | Great Blue Heron | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Red Satyr | R | CA | U | UC | Great Crested Flycatcher | O | O | O | ||||||||||
| Sachem | C | C | C | Great Horned Owl | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Sleepy Orange | R | A | A | A | Greater Roadrunner | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| Soapberry Hairstreak | R | R | Greater Yellowlegs | R | U | R | U | |||||||||||
| Southern Dogface | U | C | C | Great-tailed Grackle | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Tawny Emperor | R | R | R | Green Heron | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Variegated Fritillary | C | C | C | Green-winged Teal | UC | R | R | UC | ||||||||||
| Vesta Crescent | C | U | U | Hermit Thrush | R | U | U | |||||||||||
| Viceroy | UC | UC | C | House Finch | R | U | R | U | ||||||||||
| Western Pygmy Blue | R | U | C | C | House Wren | R | U | U | ||||||||||
| Killdeer | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Lark Bunting | UC | UC | R | |||||||||||||||
| Mammals | DJF | MAM | JJA | SON | Lark Sparrow | R | UC | CA | UC | |||||||||
| Black-tailed Jackrabbit | U | C | C | C | Least Flycatcher | R | R | |||||||||||
| Bobcat | U | U | U | U | Lesser Goldfinch | U | U | R | ||||||||||
| Coyote | U | U | U | U | Lesser Scaup | UC | RC | |||||||||||
| Desert Cottontail | U | C | C | C | Lesser Yellowlegs | U | R | U | ||||||||||
| Eastern Cottontail | U | U | U | U | Lincoln’s Sparrow | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Feral Pig | U | U | U | U | Loggerhead Shrike | U | R | R | U | |||||||||
| Gray Fox | U | U | U | U | MacGillivray’s Warbler | R | U | |||||||||||
| Nine-banded Armadillo | U | U | U | U | Mallard | UC | R | R | UC | |||||||||
| Raccoon | U | U | U | U | Mississippi Kite | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Striped Skunk | U | U | U | U | Mourning Dove | UC | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||
| White-tailed Deer | U | U | U | U | N. Rough-winged Swallow | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| White-throated Woodrat | U | U | U | Nashville Warbler | U | U | ||||||||||||
| Northern Bobwhite | C | C | C | C | ||||||||||||||
| Northern Cardinal | UC | UC | UC | UC | ||||||||||||||
| Northern Flicker | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Reptiles | DJF | MAM | JJA | SO | Northern Harrier | U | U | |||||||||||
| Coachwhip | U | U | U | Northern Mockingbird | UC | UC | UC | UC | ||||||||||
| Common Snapping Turtle | R | R | R | Northern Parula | O | |||||||||||||
| Eastern Collared Lizard | U | U | U | Northern Pintail | CA | UC | ||||||||||||
| Eastern Fence Lizard | U | U | U | Northern Shoveler | CA | R | R | UC | ||||||||||
| Gopher Snake | U | U | U | Northern Waterthrush | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Great Plains Rat Snake | U | U | U | Olive-sided Flycatcher | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Great Plains Skink | U | U | U | Orange-crowned Warbler | R | U | U | |||||||||||
| Greater Earless Lizard | U | U | U | Orchard Oriole | R | R | R | |||||||||||
| Long-nosed Snake | U | R | U | Painted Bunting | UC | C | UC | |||||||||||
| Marbled Whiptail | U | U | U | Pectoral Sandpiper | O | R | ||||||||||||
| Night Snake | R | R | R | Pyrrhuloxia | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Ornate Box Turtle | U | U | U | Redhead | UA | R | R | RU | ||||||||||
| Plain-bellied Water Snake | U | U | U | Red-tailed Hawk | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Plains black-headed Snake | RU | R | R | Red-winged Blackbird | UA | UC | UC | UA | ||||||||||
| Red-eared Slider | R | C | C | C | Ring-necked Duck | UC | RU | |||||||||||
| Round-tailed Horned Lizard | R | R | R | Rock Wren | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Six-lined Racerunner | U | U | U | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | UC | R | R | |||||||||||
| Texas Horned Lizard | U | U | U | Ruddy Duck | U | R | R | R | ||||||||||
| Texas Spiny Lizard | U | U | U | Rufous Hummingbird | R | |||||||||||||
| Texas Spotted Whiptail | U | U | U | Rufous-crowned Sparrow | R | U | U | U | ||||||||||
| Western Diamondback | U | U | U | Savannah Sparrow | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||
| Western Hog-nosed Snake | U | R | U | Say’s Phoebe | R | R | ||||||||||||
| Western Ribbon Snake | U | U | U | Scaled Quail | C | C | C | C | ||||||||||
| Yellow Mud Turtle | U | U | U | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | U | U | U | |||||||||||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | U | |||||||||||||||||
| Snowy Egret | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Solitary Sandpiper | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Song Sparrow | U | R | U | |||||||||||||||
| Spotted Sandpiper | R | U | R | U | ||||||||||||||
| Spotted Towhee | U | U | U | |||||||||||||||
| Summer Tanager | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Swainson’s Hawk | U | U | U | |||||||||||||||
| Townsend’s Solitaire | O | |||||||||||||||||
| Turkey Vulture | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||||||
| Upland Sandpiper | R | |||||||||||||||||
| Verdin | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Vesper Sparrow | UC | UC | UC | |||||||||||||||
| Warbling Vireo | O | O | ||||||||||||||||
| Western Kingbird | U | U | U | |||||||||||||||
| Western Meadowlark | UC | U | U | UC | ||||||||||||||
| Western Scrub Jay | R | R | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| Western Tanager | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Western Wood Pewee | U | U | ||||||||||||||||
| White-crowned Sparrow | CA | UC | UC | |||||||||||||||
| White-faced Ibis | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| White-winged Dove | O | O | O | O | ||||||||||||||
| Wild Turkey | U | U | U | U | ||||||||||||||
| Willow Flycatcher | U | U | ||||||||||||||||
| Wilson’s Snipe | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Wilson’s Warbler | UC | UC | ||||||||||||||||
| Winter Wren | R | |||||||||||||||||
| Yellow Warbler | U | U | ||||||||||||||||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | U | U | U | |||||||||||||||
| Yellow-breasted Chat | R | R | ||||||||||||||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | UC | U | U |