Cypress
Valley Canopy Tours Ecology
Wildlife Residents and Visitors of Cypress Valley
Some of the birds identified at Cypress Valley include:
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Scrub Jay | Canyon Wren | Red-tailed Hawk |
| Chimney Swift | Blue-grey Gnatcatcher | Purple Martin | Great Horned Owl |
| Mourning Dove | House Finch | Eastern Screech Owl | Canyon Wren |
| Carolina Wren | Bewick's Wren | Eastern Phoebe | Carolina Chickadee |
| Summer Tanager | Great Blue Heron | Belted Kingfisher | Green Heron |
| Killdeer | House Sparrow | Northern Cardinal | Downy Woodpecker |
| Western Kingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Western Scrub Jay | Lesser Goldfinch |
| Painted Bunting | Black-crested Titmouse | Black Vulture | White-eyed Vireo |
| Northern Mockingbird | Turkey Vulture | Ashthroated Flycatcher | Baltimore Oriole (migrant) |
| Black-chinned Hummingbird | Scissor-tailed Swallow | Golden cheaked Warbler | Lesser Gold Finch |
There are numerous butterflies, including the
Pipevine Swallowtail that frequent Cypress Valley. We will identify
them and add them here later.
Some of the other local inhabitants of Cypress Valley include:
There are many residents and visitors to Cypress Valley. The constant supply of water and numerous limestone crevices and outcroppings bring many different species here for food, water and shelter. This track was once part of the much larger Paleface Ranch, which as it gets cut up into smaller pieces may send some of these animals further west. We have just begun to catalog this section and will update it in the near future.
| Ringtail | Grey Fox | Mountain Lion | Armadillos |
| Virginia Opossum | Raccoon | Rock Squirrel | Mexican free-tailed bat |
| Nutria | Striped Skunk | White Tailed Deer | Ribbon Snake |
| Coyote | Bobcat | Porcupine | Grey Squirrel |