At first blush, the grassland region seems barren, lifeless and bare.
During our stay there, the biggest evidence we saw of wildlife was in the area of birds and lizards, although I imagine if we studied the subject we would find the land also supports possibly javalinas, coyotes, deer and prairie dogs.
Arizona sports a wide variety of hummingbirds. While we saw hummingbirds, they are difficult to photograph and harder still to identify. Their markings often don't show up on my photos (that I am lucky enough even to get.)
Here are the varieties that live in Arizona, although I don't have the information about which ones live in which climates or biospheres.
In our area we only have the ruby-throated hummingbird, and I seldom get to see one.
In addition, the area also has quail,
white-wing doves (which are very similar to our mourning doves),
the shy orioles and finches and various other not yet identified birds.
In addition, we saw lots of lizards, but I don't know lizards from lizards.
At the nearby Nature Conservancy we also saw
and one non-native species of animal:
My series on Arizona nature study will continue with my next nature study blog entry.
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