Learn more about the critters and plants in Orange County.
Birds
- Allen’s hummingbird
- Belted kingfisher
- Bonaparte’s gull
- Brown creeper
- California quail
- Canvasback duck
- Cassin’s vireo
- Cliff swallow
- Common poorwill
- Common tern
- Crows and ravens
- Dunlin
- House wren
- Hutton’s vireo
- Jaeger
- Northern mockingbird
- Pacific slope flycatcher
- Red-breasted sapsucker
- Redhead duck
- Red-tailed hawk
- Rhinoceros auklet
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Starling
- Virginia rail
- Wandering tattler
Mammals and reptiles
- Botta’s pocket gopher
- California vole
- Gopher snake
- Pacific slender salamander
- Raccoon
- Red-eared slider
- Southern alligator lizard
- Western harvest mouse
Fish, mollusks, amphibians
- Bay pipefish
- Black sea hare
- California toad
- Chestnut cowry
- Flat-bottomed periwinkle
- Mantis shrimp
- Marine worm
- Purple fan nudibranch
- Sarcastic fringehead
- Sea pansy
- Sea pen
- Speckled scallop
- Striped sea hare
- Swimming isopod
- Zoanthid anemone
Insects
- Argentine ant
- Black witch moth
- Bolas spider
- Cuckoo wasp
- Damselfly
- Dust mites
- Dusty June beetle
- Egg wasp
- European house cricket
- Jerusalem cricket
- McCook’s wolf spider
- Mediterranean mantid
- Mouse spider
- No-see-ums
- Painted lady butterfly
- Pygmy blue butterfly
- Silk moth
- Trash-web spider
- Velvet mite
- Whirling beetle
