Animal Watching at Bullion Creek Retreat andin Utah
There are about 250 animal species and about 350 bird species to be seen in Utah. Our excursions range through various ecological desert, marsh, forest, and riparian habitats from the Mojave desert up through the tundra-like mountain tops of the Rockies to view these animals..
Following is a list of Utah animals that possibly may be seen on the Paiute Trail or within a day’s excursion from the Bullion Creekside Vacation Rental Cabin
| Mammals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Badger | Bat (21 varieties) | Black Bear | Beaver | Bison | Bobcat |
| Cat, Ringtail | Chipmunk, Cliff | Chipmunk, Colorado | Chipmunk, Least | Chipmunk, Uinta | Chipmunk, Yellow-pine |
| Cottontail, Desert | Cottontail, Nuttal’s | Coyote | Deer, Mule | Elk | Ferret, Black-footed |
| Fox, Gray | Fox. Kit | Fox, Red | Goat, Mountain | Gopher, Pocket, Botta’s | Gopher, Pocket, Northern |
| Hare, Snowshoe | Jackrabbit, Black-tailed | Jackrabbit, White-tailed | Lion, Mountain | Lynx, Canada | Marmot, Yellow-bellied |
| Marten, Pine | Mink | Moose | Mouse (20 varieties) | Muskrat | Otter, River |
| Pika | Porqupine | Prairie Dog, Gunnison’s | Prairie Dog, Utah | Prairie Dog, White-tailed | Pronghorn Antelope |
| Rabbit, Pygmy | Raccoon | Rat, Kangaroo (4 varieties) | Sheep, Bighorn, Desert | Sheep, Bighorn, Rocky Mountain | Shrew (8 varieties) |
| Skunk, Spotted | Skunk, Striped | Squirrel, Abert’s | Squirrel, Antelope, White-tailed | Squirrel, Flying, Northern | Squirrel, Ground (8 varieties) |
| Squirrel, Red | Squirrel, Rock | Vole (8 varieties) | Weasel, Long-tailed | Weasel, Short-tailed (Ermine) | Weasel, Short-tailed (Ermine) |
| Reptiles | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boa, Rubber | Chuckwalla, Glen Canyon | Chuckwalla, Western | Coachwhip, Red | Gecko, Banded, Utah | Iguana, Desert |
| Kingsnake, California | Kingsnake, Utah Mountain | Lizard, Mojave Black-collard | Lizard, Yellowhead Collared | Lizard, Speckled Earless | Lizard, Great Basin Fence |
| Lizard, Northern Desert Horned | Lizard, Southern Desert Horned | Lizard, Longnose Leopard | Lizard, Pale Leopard | Lizard, Desert Night | Lizard, Utah Night |
| Lizard, Northern Plateau | Lizard, Southern Plateau | Lizard, Sagebrush | Lizard, Eastern short-horned | Lizard, Mountain short-horned | Lizard, Side-blotched |
| Lizard, Orange-head Spiny | Lizard, Yellow-back Spiny | Lizard, Northern Tree | Lizard, Mojave Zebratail | Monster, Banded Gila | Racer, Yellow-belly |
| Rattlesnake, Faded Midget | Rattlesnake, Great Basin | Rattlesnake, Hopi | Rattlesnake, Mojave | Rattlesnake, Prairie | Rattlesnake, Speckled |
| Sidewinder | Skink, Great Basin | Skink, Variable | Snake, Utah Blackhead | Snake, Utah Blind | Snake, Western Black-neck Garter |
| Snake, Red-sided Garter | Snake, Wandering Garter | Snake, Desert Glossy | Snake, Painted Desert Glossy | Snake, Great Basin Gopher | Snake, Western Smooth Green |
| Snake, Great Basin Ground | Snake, Leafnose | Snake, Longnose | Snake, Lyre Sonoran | Snake, Utah Milk | Snake, Desert Night |
| Snake, Mesa Verde Night | Snake, Spotted Night | Snake, Mojave Patchnose | Snake, Great Plains Rat | Snake, Regal Ringneck | Softshell, Spiny Western |
| Tortoise, Desert | Whipsnake, Striped | Whiptail, Great Basin | Whiptail, Northern | Whiptail, Striped Plateau | |
| Fish | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bass, Largemouth | Bass, Smallmouth | Bass, Striped | Bass, White | Bluegill | Bullhead, Black |
| Bullhead, Yellow | Carp, Common | Catfish, Channel | Chub, Bonytail | Chub, Creek | Chub, Humpbank |
| Chub, Least | Chub, Leatherside | Chub, Roundtail | Chub, Utah | Chub, Virgin River | Cisco, Bonneville |
| Crappie, Black | Crappie, White | Dace. Longnose | Dace, Speckled | Grayling, Arctic | Killifish, Rainwater |
| Killifish, Rio Grande | Minnow, Brassy | Minnow, Fathead | Mosquitofish | Muskellunge, Tiger | Perch, Sacramento |
| Perch, Yellow | Pike, Northern | Salmon, Kokanee | Sculpin, Bear Lake | Sculpin, Mottled | Sculpin, Piute |
| Shad, Threadfin | Shiner, ( 5 varieties) | Smelt, Delta | Smelt, Rainbow | Spinedace, Virgin River | Splake |
| Squawfish, Colorado | Sucker, Bluehead | Sucker, Desert | Sucker, Flannelmouth | Sucker, June | Sucker, Mountain |
| Sucker, Razorback | Sucker, Utah | Sucker, White | Sunfish, Green | Trout, Albino Rainbow | Trout, Brook |
| Trout, Brown | Trout, Colorado Cutthroat | Trout, Lahontan Cutthroat | Trout, Snake River Cutthroat | Trout, Snake River Cutthroat | Trout, Yellowstone Cutthroat |
| Trout, Goldern | Trout, Lake | Trout, Rainbow | Walleye | Whitefish, Bear Lake | Whitefish, Bonneville |
| Whitefish, Mountain | Woundfin | ||||
| Amphibians | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullfrog | Frog, Boreal Chorus | Frog, Green | Frog, Northern Leopard | Frog, Relict Leopard | Frog, Spotted |
| Salamander, Tiger | Spadefoot, Great Basin | Toad, Arizona | Toad, Boreal | Toad, Great Plains | Toad, Red-spotted |
| Toad, Woodhouse’s | Treefrog, Canyon | Treefrog, Pacific | |||
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