Wildlife Viewing in Teller County
Colorado is home to a wide variety of birds and wildlife. Majestic creatures like Elk, Bald & Golden Eagles, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer, and many others await your viewing.
Below is a list of many of the birds, mammals, fish, and reptiles you may fine as you journey through Teller County and other Colorado regions.
Mammals
- American Pika
- Badger
- Bats
- Beaver
- Bighorn Sheep
- Bison
- Black Bear
- Black-Footed Ferret
- Black-tailed Prairie Dog
- Bobcat
- Chipmunks
- Cottontails
- Coyote
- Deer
- Eastern Mole
- Elk
- Foxes
- Gray Wolf
- Grizzly Bear
- Ground Squirrels
- Hares
- Harvest Mice
- Hispid Cotton Rat
- Jumping Mice
- Kit Fox
- Lynx
- Marten
- Mink
- Moose
- Mountain Goat
- Mountain Lion
- Muskrat
- Nine-Banded Armadillo
- Northern Grasshopper Mouse
- Ord's Kangaroo Rat
- Pocket Gophers
- Pocket Mice
- Porcupine
- Prairie Dogs
- Pronghorn
- Raccoon
- Ringtail
- River Otter
- Shrews
- Skunk
- Tree Squirrels
- Virginia Opossum
- Voles/Meadow Mice
- Weasels
- White-Footed Mice
- Wolverine
- Woodrats
- Yellow-Bellied Marmot
Birds
- Bald Eagle
- Band-Tailed Pigeon
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Brown Creeper
- Burrowing Owl
- Canada Goose
- Chukar
- Columbian Sharp-Tailed Grouse
- Cormorant
- Cow Bird
- Crow
- Dusky Grouse
- Eastern Bluebird
- Golden Eagle
- Gray Catbird
- Great Horned Owl
- Greater Prairie-Chicken
- Greater Sage-grouse
- Gunnison Sage-grouse
- Least Tern
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Plover
- Mourning Dove
- Peregrine Falcon
- Piping Plover
- Plains Sharp-Tailed Grouse
- Sandhill Crane
- Western Bluebird
- Whooping Crane
- Yellow-breasted Chat
Fish
- Arkansas Darter
- Bonytail
- Colorado River Cutthroat Trout
- Greenback Cutthroat Trout
- Humpback Chub
- Pikeminnow
- Razorback Sucker
- Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout
Reptiles/Amphibians