Critters

Critters of New Mexico

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Garden Snail

American Bullfrog	American Bullfrog	American Bullfrog	American Bullfrog
American Bullfrog	American Bullfrog		American Bullfrog
New Mexico Spadefoot (Spea multiplicata)	New Mexico Spadefoot (Spea multiplicata)	Woodhouse's Toad (Bufo woodhousii)

Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider
Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider	Red-eared Slider
Red-eared Slider
Spiny Softshell
Painted Turtle	Painted Turtle	Painted Turtle	Painted Turtle

Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)	Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)		Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)
Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
Greater EarlessLizard Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater EarlessLizard Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater EarlessLizard Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)	Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)		Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
Common Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus)		Common Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus)
Earless Lizard		Elegant Earless Lizard (Holbrookia elegans)

Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)	Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)	Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)	Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)
	Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)	Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)	Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Hernandez's Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos)

Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)	Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)	Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)	Crevice Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii)

Great Plains Skink (Eumeces obsoletus) imm.	Great Plains Skink (Eumeces obsoletus)		Great Plains Skink (Eumeces obsoletus)
Many-lined Skink? (Eumeces multivirgatus) imm.

Plains Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis inornata llanuras)
Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata)	Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata)	Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata)	Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata)
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)	Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)
Southwestern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi)	Southwestern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi)	Southwestern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi)
Plateau Fence Lizard (Sceloporus tristichus)	Plateau Fence Lizard (Sceloporus tristichus)		Plateau Fence Lizard (Sceloporus tristichus)
New Mexico Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neomexicana)		New Mexico Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neomexicana)
Whiptail Lizard
Plateau Striped Lizard (Aspidoscelis velox)		Plateau Striped Lizard (Aspidoscelis velox)
Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)
Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)	Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)	Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)	Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii)	Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii)		Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii)
Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard
Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard
Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard	Spiny Lizard

Western Diamondback	Western Diamondback	Western Diamondback	Western Diamondback
	Western Diamondback	Western Diamondback
Black-tailed Rattlesnake [AZ]	Black-tailed Rattlesnake [AZ]		Black-tailed Rattlesnake? [NM]
Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake (imm.)	Gopher Snake
Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake
Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake	Gopher Snake
Gopher Snake
Blackneck Gartersnake	Striped Whipsnake	Bull Snake	Western Hognose Snake
Snake

Desert Cottontail	Desert Cottontail	Desert Cottontail	Desert Cottontail
Black-tailed Jackrabbit		Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Rabbit (Texas)

Abert's Squirrel	Abert's Squirrel	Abert's Squirrel	Abert's Squirrel
Squirrel	Squirrel	Squirrel	Squirrel
Squirrel (Texas)

Spotted Ground Squirrel
Rock Squirrel	Rock Squirrel		Rock Squirrel
	White-tailed Antelope Squirrel	White-tailed Antelope Squirrel

Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk
Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk
Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk	Chipmunk

Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog
Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog	Prairie Dog
Prairie Dog

Muskrat	Muskrat	Muskrat	Muskrat
	Muskrat	Muskrat

A few porcupines...once you know where to look, there they are!


















Click here to watch a short video of this guy from March 2, 2013 at Tingley ponds.
A short porcupine video from Pueblo Montano OS, March 4, 2016

Coyote on the Prowl - Fourth of July Canyon - October 6, 2011.



Coyote	Coyote	Coyote	Coyote
Coyote	Coyote	Coyote	Coyote
Coyote w/Northern Harrier

	Javelina	Javelina

Black Bear (8/22/12)	Black Bear (8/28/12)	Black Bear (8/28/12)	Black Bear (8/28/12)
Black Bear (6/20/20)

And in March 2011 started seeing raccoons in the trees, too.
Raccoon	Raccoon	Raccoon	Raccoon
Raccoon	Raccoon	Raccoon	Raccoon
	Raccoon	Raccoon?

Long-tailed Weasel!

Bobcat - Las Huertas - May 30, 2012

Bobcat - Bosque del Apache - November 18, 2011


Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn
Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn
Pronghorn	Pronghorn		Pronghorn
Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn (Arizona)	Pronghorn (Arizona)
Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn	Pronghorn
	Pronghorn	Pronghorn

Elk		Elk

Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer
Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer
Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer
Mule Deer	Fawn	Mule Deer	Mule Deer
Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer
Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Mule Deer	Unicorn

Barbary Sheep	Barbary Sheep		Barbary Sheep
Bighorn Sheep

Zonkey (Belen NM)	Koi (zoo)	De Brazza's Monkey (zoo)	Orangutans (zoo)
Gorilla (zoo)	Tasmanian Devil (zoo)		Giraffe (zoo)
Another Day at the Zoo
Gorilla	Cheetah	Cheetah	Hippo
Zebra	Polar Bear		Klipspringer
Flamingo	Flamingo		Flamingo
Puma	Puma (Photoshopped)	Klipspringer	Klipspringer (Photoshopped)
	Giraffe	Giraffe (Photoshopped)

Raccoon and Goose Track	Tracks	Tracks	Track

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