Diet:
It is an omnivore and feeds on small birds, rodents, insects, seeds, carrion, and garbage.

Interesting fact:
If trees are planted near sagebrush, magpies will prey upon native shrub steppe birds in t hose patches of sagebrush, further reducing the sagebrush obligates (species that only live and breed in sagebrush).

Diet:
It is an opportunistic scavenger feeding on fish, crustaceans, bivalves and other invertebrates, as well as carrion and scavenging items from dumps and other areas of human habitation.

Interesting fact:
This gull is often found nesting together with the Ring- billed gull. It is Utah's state bird because it saved settlers from starvation when flocks of California gulls ate the locusts ruining their crops.

Diet:
It feeds on whatever it can find, mostly mammals and carrion, although it also eats birds, fruit, and insects.

Interesting fact:
Efforts to exterminate coyotes have taken place during the 20th century. Their numbers are still increasing.

Coyote Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It feeds primarily on rodents and other small mammals. Only warm- blooded, living prey are eaten.

Interesting fact:
The gopher snake is not poisonous although its threatening posture sometimes gives the impression that it is.

Gopher Snake Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It is an omnivore, feeding upon ants, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, flies and plant material.

Interesting fact:
This toad breeds following heavy rains. It burrows during dry weather and droughts and may not be seen until heavy rains come--which could be up to 10 years apart.

Great Basin Spadefoot Fact Sheet »

Diet:
If feeds largely on small mammals including squirrels, rabbits, gophers, prairie dogs, chipmunks, mice, rats and other small rodents, as well as domesticated poultry, other small birds, grasshoppers, beetles, crayfish and fish.

Interesting fact:
The great horned owl is large (the length of an adult's arm from the hand to the elbow). Screech owls have "horns" and are misidentified as baby great horned owls. Baby owls are the size of their parents when they leave the nest.

Great Horned Owl Fact Sheet »

Diet:
It is an omnivore and feeds on seeds, nuts, fruits, leaves, roots, insects, snails, worms, cultivated grains, and grass seeds.

Interesting fact:
The Ring-necked pheasant is an introduced game bird, whose numbers are dropping in Washington State.

Diet:
It is known to feed upon seeds and nuts.

Interesting fact:
Once marmots build their den, they do not venture far from it.

Yellow-bellied Marmot Fact Sheet »