Wildlife
The Preserve offers food, cover and water to many resident birds, and shelters many migrant and vagrant species. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest at the Preserve, including "Least" Bell's Vireo, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Lucy's Warbler, Summer Tanager and Vermillion Flycatcher. Many other species are present during the Spring and Fall migration seasons. A number of mammals occur here including desert bighorn sheep, mule deer, mountain lion, gray fox, kit fox, raccoon, bobcat, coyote, kangaroo rat and other rodents. The availability of water brings the bighorn sheep and other animals onto the canyon during the hot, dry summer months. Several species of reptiles and amphibians are also present, including gopher snakes, king snakes, common whiptail lizards, chuckwallas, horned lizards, and Pacific tree frogs. Amoung the thousands of invertebrates occuring in the Morongo Canyon, a few conspicuous forms include the Western Tiger Swallowtail and Lorquin's Admiral butterflies, several species of dragonflies and damselflies, and water striders, all here because of the permanent water supply.
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Also see - Birds, resident and migrating
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