Tacubaya Ranch Wildlife

Experiences in Nature


Resident Wildlife


** LIST UPDATED November 2011 **
 

This is a list of birds identified at Tacubaya Ranch since March 2009.

Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Great-Tailed Grackle
Cuckoos and Relatives
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Groove-billed Ani
Black-billed Cuckoo
Doves & Parrots
Mourning Dove Inca Dove Common Ground Dove
White-tipped Dove Eurasian Collared-dove
Flycatchers
Great Kiskadee Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Vermillion Flycatcher
Easten Pheobe Couch’s Kingbird Alder Flycatcher
Geese & Ducks
Black-bellied Whistling-duck Cinnamon Teal Wood Duck
Grebes
Least Grebe
Hawks & Relatives
Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier
Harris’ Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Crested Caracara
American Kestral Broad-winged Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk White-tailed Hawk
Herons, Bitterns & Egrets
Great Blue Heron Green Heron
Ibises & Relatives
White Ibis
Jays, Wrens, Kinglets, etc.
Green Jay Verdin Bewick’s Wren
House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black-crested Titmouse Cactus Wren
Vireos
White-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo
Orioles, Goldfinches, etc.
Hooded Oriole Baltimore Oriole Altamira Oriole
Owls & Nightjars
Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl
Common Nighthawk Lesser Nighthawk Common Pauraque
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Shorebirds
Killdeer
Sparrows & Relatives
Olive Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Chipping Sparrow
House Sparrow
Swallows
Barn Swallow Cave Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tanagers, Grosbeaks & Buntings
Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Blue Grosbeak
Painted Bunting Dickcissel
Thrashers, Thrushes & Pipits
Northern Mockingbird Long-Billed Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher
Grey Catbird Hermit Thrush
Turkey & Quail
Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Quail
Warblers
Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler Black-and-White Warbler
Waxwing, Shrike & Starling
Loggerhead Shrike European Starling
Woodpeckers
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

This is a list of butterflies and dragonflies identified at Tacubaya Ranch since April 2010.

Milkweed Butterflies
Monarch Queen
Whites and Sulphurs
Dainty Sulphur Little Yellow
Dogfaces & Oranges
Southern Dogface
Distinctive Brushfoots
Red Admiral American Lady
Southern Blues
Ceraunus Blue
Emperors and Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Longwings and Southern Fritillaries
Variegated Fritillary Gulf Fritillary
Swallowtails
Pipevine Swallowtail
Dragonflies
Common Green Darner Varigated Meadowhawk Roseate Skimmer
Carmine Skimmer Twelve-spotted Skimmer Thornbush Dasher
Spot-tailed Dasher Black Saddlebag Red Saddlebag
Red-tailed Pennant Wandering Glider

This is a list of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects identified at Tacubaya Ranch.

Rabbits, Hares and Pikas
Eastern Cottontail Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Squirrels, Chipmunks and Marmots
Mexican Ground Squirrel
Medium-sized Mammals
Northern Raccoon Virginia Opossum Striped Skunk
Nine-banded Armadillo
Dogs and Cats
Coyote Puma Bobcat
Hoofed Mammals
White-tailed Deer Javelina Feral Hog
Mice and Rats
White-footed Deermouse Fulvous Harvest Mouse
Bats
Mexican Free-tailed Bat
Ants
Harvester Ant Leafcutter Ant
Turtles & Tortoises
Red-eared Slider Berlandier’s “Texas” Tortoise
Lizards & Geckos
Horned Lizard Mediterranean Gecko Texas Spotted Whiptail
Snakes
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Indigo Snake Rat Snake

In addition to this extensive list of animals; we have also cataloged over 50 species of native plants that have returned to Tacubaya Ranch, which was at one time completely cleared for hay production and grazing land.