Birds
A small bird, about 3 inches long, that can fly backwards and straight up.
What is a hummingbird?
An animal that can live in a pond and lays thousands of soft, jelly covered eggs.
What is a frog?
A bird of prey that stays up all night.
What is a great horned owl?
A long venomous snake that Stella thinks looks like a stick.
What is a western diamondback rattlesnake?
An insect that can fly short distances and likes to eat grass and other plants.
What is a grasshopper?
A large raptor (bird of prey) that eats fish plucked from the water with their sharp talons.
What is a bald eagle?
An animal that is similar to a frog but has tough, dry skin.
What is a toad?
A big scavenger bird that has three toes.
What is a turkey vulture?
A nonvenomous snake that looks a lot like a venomous coral snake.
What is a Sonora king snake?
A pretty insect that crawls for part of its life and flies as an adult
What is a butterfly?
New Mexico's state bird that eats insects, lizards, and snakes.
What is a roadrunner?
An endangered salamander species that is found in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico.
What is the Jemez salamander?
A bird that you might see along the Rio Grande in the Bosque del Apache.
What is a Gambel's quail?
A lizard that scares off predators by squirting blood out of its eye
What is a horned lizard?
An insect that uses its long snout to eat the middle out of cotton plants.
What is a boll weevil?
A noisy song bird that lives mostly in the Basin and Range Region.
What is a northern mockingbird?
A threatened species of salamander that lives in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico.
What is the Sacramento Mountain salamander?
A songbird that builds its nest in cholla cacti.
What is a cactus wren?
A venomous reptile that is shy and wants to be left alone.
What is a Gila monster?
A spider with a pattern on its abdomen that is usually red, orange, or yellow.
What is a widow spider?
A bird that nests near the Rio Grande River.
What is a violet-green swallow?
An amphibian native to New Mexico with a long tail like a lizard and smooth, moist skin like a frog
What is a tiger salamander?
A small bird that lives in the Rocky Mountains.
What is a yellow warbler?
A fish that is olive green in color along its back with small black spots.
What is the Gila trout?
A shy arachnid that is most active at night.
What is a recluse spider?