Featured Species
Below are the species within our area of responsibility for the Carlsbad and Palm Springs Fish and Wildlife Offices. Our offices cover species in Los Angeles (LA), Orange (OR), San Diego (SD), Inyo (IN), Kern (KE), San Bernardino (SB), Riverside (RI), and Imperial (IM) counties.
A "Threatened" species is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range, and an "Endangered" species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
PLANTS
- Amargosa niterwort (Endangered) (IN)
- ash-grey paintbrush (Threatened) (SB)
- Ash Meadows gumplant (Threatened) (IN)
- Bear Valley sandwort (Threatened) (SB)
- big-leaved crown beard (Threatened) (OR)
- Braunton's milk-vetch (Endangered) (LA, OR, RI)
- California Orcutt grass (Endangered) (LA, SD, RI)
- California taraxacum (Endangered) (SB)
- Catalina Island mountain-mahogany (Endangered) (LA)
- Coachella Valley milk-vetch (Endangered) (RI)
- coastal dunes milk-vetch (Endangered) (LA, SD)
- Cushenbury buckwheat (Endangered) (SB)
- Cushenbury milk-vetch (Endangered) (SB)
- Cushenbury oxytheca (Endangered) (SB)
- Del Mar manzanita (Endangered) (SD)
- Encinitas baccharis (Threatened) (SD)
- Eureka Dune grass (Threatened) (IN)
- Eureka Valley evening-primrose (IN)
- Gambel's watercress (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, SB)
- Hidden Lake bluecurls (RI)
- Island rush-rose (Threatened) (LA)
- Joshua Tree (IN, KE, LA, SB, RI, IM)
- Laguna Beach liveforever (Threatened) (OR)
- Lane Mountain milk-vetch (Endangered) (SB)
- Lyon's pentachaeta (Endangered) (LA)
- marsh sandwort (Endangered) (LA, SB)
- Mexican flannelbush (Endangered) (SD)
- Munz's onion (Endangered) (RI)
- Nevin's barberry (Endangered) (LA, SD, SB, RI)
- Orcutt's spineflower (Endangered) (SD)
- Otay mesa mint (Endangered) (SD)
- Otay tarplant (Threatened) (SD)
- Parish's daisy (Threatened) (SB, RI)
- pedate checker-mallow (Endangered) (SB)
- Peirson's milk-vetch (Threatened) (IM)
- salt marsh bird's-beak (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD)
- San Bernardino bluegrass (Endangered) (SD, SB)
- San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod (Endangered) (SB)
- San Diego ambrosia (Endangered) (SD, RI)
- San Diego button celery (Endangered) (SD, RI)
- San Diego mesa-mint (Endangered) (SD)
- San Diego thornmint (Threatened) (SD)
- San Clemente Island bush-mallow (Delisted) (LA)
- San Clemente Island larkspur (Delisted) (LA)
- San Clemente Island lotus (Delisted) (LA)
- San Clemente Island paintbrush (Delisted) (LA)
- San Clemente Island woodland-star (Endangered) (LA)
- San Fernando Valley spineflower (LA, OR)
- San Jacinto Valley crownscale (Endangered) (RI)
- Santa Ana River woolly-star (Endangered) (OR, SB, RI)
- Santa Cruz Island rockcress (Endangered) (LA)
- Santa Monica Mountains dudleya (Threatened) (LA, OR)
- slender-horned spineflower (Endangered) (LA, SB, RI)
- slender-petaled mustard (Endangered) (SB)
- southern mountain wild buckwheat (Threatened) (SB)
- spreading navarretia (Threatened) (LA, SD, RI)
- thread-leaved brodiaea (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
- triple-ribbed milk-vetch (Endangered) (SB, RI)
- Vail Lake ceanothus (Threatened) (RI)
- Ventura marsh milk-vetch (Endangered) (LA, OR)
- willowy monardella (Endangered) (SD)
MAMMALS
- Amargosa vole (Endangered) (IN)
- Nelson bighorn sheep (Peninsular Range DPS; Peninsular bighorn sheep) (Endangered) (SD, RI, IM)
- Pacific pocket mouse (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD)
- San Bernardino flying squirrel (SB, RI)
- San Bernardino kangaroo rat (Endangered) (LA, SB, RI)
- Santa Catalina Island fox (Threatened) (LA)
- southern sea otter (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD)
- Stephens' kangaroo rat (Threatened) (SD, SB, RI)
INVERTEBRATES
- Casey's June beetle (Endangered) (RI)
- Delhi Sands flower-loving fly (Endangered) (SB, RI)
- El Segundo blue butterfly (Endangered) (LA)
- Hermes copper butterfly (Threatened) (SD)
- Laguna Mountains skipper (Endangered) (SD)
- Palos Verdes blue butterfly (Endangered) (LA)
- Quino checkerspot butterfly (Endangered) (OR, SD, SB, RI)
- Riverside fairy shrimp (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, RI)
- San Diego fairy shrimp (Endangered) (OR, SD)
- vernal pool fairy shrimp (Threatened) (RI)
FISH
- bonytail chub (Endangered) (SB, RI, IM)
- Colorado Pikeminnow (Endangered) (SD, RI, IM)
- desert pupfish (Endangered) (SD, RI, IM)
- Mohave tui chub (Endangered) (SB)
- razorback sucker (Endangered) (SB, RI, IM)
- Santa Ana sucker (Threatened) (LA, OR, SB, RI)
- steelhead (southern California ESU) (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD)
- tidewater goby (Endangered) (OR, SD)
- unarmored threespine stickleback (Endangered) (LA, SD, SB)
AMPHIBIANS
- arroyo toad (a. southwestern t.) (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
- California red-legged frog (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
- desert slender salamander (Endangered) (RI)
- foothill yellow-legged frog (LA)
- mountain yellow-legged frog (southern California DPS) (Endangered) (LA, SB, RI)
- western spadefoot (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
REPTILES
- Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (Threatened) (RI)
- desert tortoise (Mojave population DPS) (Threatened) (SB, RI, IM)
- island night lizard (Delisted) (LA)
- Western pond turtle (Under Review) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
BIRDS
- bald eagle (Delisted) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI, IM)
- brown pelican (Delisted) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI, IM)
- California condor (Endangered) (LA, SD, SB)
- California least tern (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, RI, IM)
- coastal California gnatcatcher (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI)
- Inyo California towhee (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD)
- least Bell's vireo (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI, IM)
- light-footed Ridgway's rail (light-footed clapper rail) (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD)
- marbled murrelet (Threatened) (LA, SD)
- San Clemente Bell's sparrow (Delisted) (LA)
- San Clemente loggerhead shrike (Endangered) (LA)
- short-tailed albatross (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD)
- southwestern willow flycatcher (Endangered) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI, IM)
- western snowy plover (Pacific Coast population DPS) (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD)
- yellow-billed cuckoo (western DPS) (Threatened) (LA, OR, SD, SB, RI, IM)
- Yuma Ridgway's rail (Yuma clapper rail) (Endangered) (SB, RI, IM)