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Wildlife

Here are a few iconic plants and animals native to the Gem State. We have created information pages about a few of these plants and animals. Click on the active links to visit them.

  • Amphibians
  • Birds
  • Fish
  • Invertebrates
  • Mammals
  • Reptiles
  • Plants
  • Fungi
  • Bibliography and Sources

Amphibians

  • Idaho Giant Salamander

Birds

  • Barn Owl
  • Chukar
  • Greater Sage-Grouse
  • Killdeer
  • Mountain Bluebird
  • Mountain Quail
  • Mourning Dove
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Turkey Vulture

Bull Trout in Timber Creek.
Bull Trout in Timber Creek (Salvelinus confluentus). photograph by Bart Gammet. USFWS National Digital Library. January 27, 2011. https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/12311/rec/12.

Fish

  • Salmon
  • Sturgeon
  • Trout

Invertebrates

  • Giant Palouse Earthworm
  • Monarch Butterfly

Southern Idaho ground squirrel in native habitat near burrow.
Southern Idaho ground squirrel in native habitat near burrow. SIDGS, Weiser River Basin, Idaho. photograph by Dennis Mackey, SRFWO, Boise, Idaho. January 1, 2005.

Mammals

  • American Badger
  • American Beaver
  • American Bison (historic)
  • Black Bear
  • Black-Footed Ferret
  • Chipmunk
  • Cougar (Mountain Lion)
  • Elk
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Ground Squirrel
  • Mule Deer
  • Pronghorn (or Pronghorn Antelope)
  • Wolf
  • Wolverine
  • Woodland Caribou

Close up image of a snake on Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge.
Close up image of a snake on Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge. photograph by Addison Mohler. October 13, 2010. USFWS National Digital Library. https://digitalmedia.fws.gov/digital/collection/natdiglib/id/12606/rec/39.

Reptiles

  • Western Rattlesnake
  • Pygmy Short-horned Lizard

Plants

  • Aase’s Onion
  • Bitterroot
  • Camas
  • Huckleberry
  • Juniper
  • Ponderosa Pine
  • Sagebrush
  • Syringa
  • Western White Pine

Fungi

  • Morel Mushrooms

Bibliography and Sources

Idaho Species Catalog, Idaho Department of Fish and Game

Idaho State Emblems, Idaho Secretary of State

Idaho’s Birds of Prey. Idaho Fish & Game Conservation Sciences Program. 1987. Revised 2008 editor: Deniz Aygen, IDFG. Revised 2008 reviewers: Sara Focht and Colleen Moulton, IDFG . https://idfg.idaho.gov/old-web/docs/wildlife/nongame/leafletBirdsPrey.pdf. Access July 17, 2020.

Outdoor Idaho Idaho Public Television

Mullins, William H. Idaho Wildlife Impressions. Helena, MT : Farcountry Press, 2007.

Pope, Aimee L., editor. Idaho wildlife viewing guide. Cambridge, MN : Adventure Publications, 2003.

Wassink, Jan L. Idaho wildlife. Helena, Mont. : American Geographic Pub., 1987.

Utz, Jamie, Mike Pellant, Tristan Froerer ; edited by Wendy Sand ; symbol illustration by Chris Becker. A field guide to wildlife of the Boise foothills. Boise, Idaho: Harris Ranch Wildlife Mitigation Association, 2017.

Vizgirdas, Ray S., illustrations by Edna Rey-Vizgirdas. Wild edible and useful plants of Idaho. Boise, Idaho: RSVizgirdas, 2017.

Steele, Robert W. A directory to disjunct and endemic plants of central and southern Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho, Forest, Wildlife and Range Experiment Station, 1975.

The University of Idaho Rangeland Center and the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission. Backpack guide to Idaho range plants. Boise, Idaho: University of Idaho Rangeland Center : Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission, 2013.

Patterson, Patricia A., Kenneth E. Neiman, Jonalea R. Tonn. Field guide to forest plants of northern Idaho. Ogden, Utah : U.S. Department of the Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 1985.

Pappani, Karie. Riparian plant reference guide: field guide for identifying riparian plants. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission, 2013. 3rd edition.

Philadelphus lewisii, commonly known as Syringa, the Idaho State Flower.
Philadelphus lewisii, commonly known as Syringa, the Idaho State Flower.

 

This page updated by Ronnie Joiner on July 16, 2020.

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