Wildlife Field Guide

Common Names for 387 Known Vertebrate Species
in GGNRA
This list of species is primarily an account of known vertebrate species in the Presido of San Francisco. Additional species that live in other areas of GGNRA (including some invertebrate species) are identified in a discussion of wildlife habitats in the entire GGNRA park system.

Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Reptiles

11 Amphibian Records for Golden Gate NRA
arboreal salamander bullfrog California giant salamander California newt California slender salamander	foothill yellow-legged frog Pacific chorus frog red-legged frog rough-skinned newt western toad

239 Bird Records for Golden Gate NRA
acorn woodpecker Allen's hummingbird American bittern American black oystercatcher American coot American crow American goldfinch American kestrel American Pipit American Robin American White Pelican American Wigeon Anna's Hummingbird Arctic Loon Ash-throated Flycatcher Bald Eagle Band-tailed Pigeon Barn Owl Barn Swallow Belted Kingfisher Bewick's Wren Black Phoebe Black Scoter Black Swift Black Turnstone Black-and-white Warbler Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night-Heron Black-headed Grosbeak Blackpoll Warbler Black-shouldered Kite Black-throated Gray Warbler Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Bobolink Bonaparte's Gull Brandt's Cormorant Brant Brewer's Blackbird Broad-winged Hawk Brown Creeper Brown Pelican Brown-headed Cowbird Bufflehead Bushtit California Gull California Quail California Towhee Canada Goose Canvasback Canyon Towhee Caspian Tern Cattle Egret Cedar Waxwing Chestnut-backed Chickadee Chipping Sparrow Cinnamon Teal Clark's Grebe Clark's Nutcracker Cliff Swallow Common Goldeneye Common Loon Common Moorhen Common Murre Common Poorwill Common Raven Common Snipe Common Tern Common Yellowthroat Cooper's Hawk Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant Downy Woodpecker Dunlin Dusky Flycatcher Eared Grebe Elegant Tern European Starling Evening Grosbeak Ferruginous Hawk Forster's Tern Fox Sparrow Gadwall Glaucous Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Golden Eagle Golden-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Great Blue Heron Great Egret Great Horned Owl Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Green-backed Heron Green-winged Teal Hairy Woodpecker Hammond's Flycatcher Harlequin Duck Heermann's Gull Hermit Thrush Hermit Warbler Herring Gull Hooded Merganser Hooded Oriole Horned Grebe Horned Lark House Finch House Sparrow House Wren Hutton's Vireo Killdeer Lark Sparrow Lawrence's Goldfinch Lazuli Bunting Least Sandpiper Least Tern Lesser Goldfinch Lesser Scaup Lincoln's Sparrow Loggerhead Shrike	long-billed curlew long-billed dowitcher long-eared owl Macgillivray's warbler magnificent frigatebird Magnolia Warbler Mallard Marbled Godwit Marbled Murrelet Marsh Wren Merlin Mew Gull Mourning Dove Nashville Warbler Northern Flicker Northern Fulmar Northern Goshawk Northern Harrier Northern Mockingbird Northern Oriole Northern Parula Northern Pintail Northern Rough-winged Swallow Northern Shoveler Nuttall's Woodpecker Oldsquaw Olive-sided Flycatcher Orange-crowned Warbler Osprey Pacific Loon Pacific-slope Flycatcher Palm Warbler Parasitic Jaeger Pelagic Cormorant Peregrine Falcon Pied-billed Grebe Pigeon Guillemot Pine Siskin Pomarine Jaeger Prairie Falcon Purple Finch Pygmy Nuthatch Red Crossbill Red Knot Red Phalarope Red-breasted Merganser Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Sapsucker Red-necked Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-throated Loon Red-winged Blackbird Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Rock Dove Rough-legged Hawk Ruby-crowned Kinglet Ruddy Duck Ruddy Turnstone Rufous Hummingbird Rufous-sided Towhee Sanderling Savannah Sparrow Say's Phoebe Scrub Jay Semipalmated Plover Sharp-shinned Hawk Short-billed Dowitcher Snow Goose Snowy Egret Snowy Plover Solitary Vireo Song Sparrow Sooty Shearwater Sora Spotted Sandpiper Steller's Jay Surf Scoter Surfbird Swainson's Hawk Swainson's Thrush Swamp Sparrow Tennessee Warbler Thayer's Gull Townsend's Solitaire Townsend's Warbler Tree Swallow Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Varied Thrush Vaux's Swift Violet-green Swallow Virginia Rail Wandering Tattler Warbling Vireo Western Bluebird Western Grebe Western Gull Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Western Sandpiper Western Screech-Owl Western Tanager Western Wood-Pewee Whimbrel White-breasted Nuthatch White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-throated Swift White-winged Scoter Willet Willow Flycatcher Wilson's Warbler Winter Wren Wrentit Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler

53 Fish Records for Golden Gate NRA
Atlantic herring barred surfperch bay pipefish black crappie bluegill California lizardfish California roach channel catfish chinook salmon coastrange sculpin coho salmon common carp diamond turbot dwarf perch English sole fathead minnow golden shiner goldfish green sunfish jacksmelt largemouth bass leopard shark lingcod longfin smelt northern anchovy Pacific lamprey Pacific sand lance	Pacific sanddab Pacific staghorn sculpin Pacific tomcod prickly sculpin rainbow trout rainwater killifish redear sunfish Sacramento blackfish Sacramento perch Sacramento sucker sand sole shiner perch silver surfperch smallmouth bass speckled sanddab spotfin surfperch spotted bass starry flounder striped bass surf smelt threespine stickleback tidewater goby topsmelt walleye surfperch western mosquitofish yellowfin goby

38 Mammal Records for Golden Gate NRA
Badger Big brown bat Black rat Black-tailed jack rabbit Bobcat Botta's pocket gopher Brazilian free-tailed bat Broad-footed mole Brush rabbit California ground squirrel California mouse California myotis California vole Coyote Deer mouse Domestic dog Dusky-footed woodrat Fox squirrel Gray fox	Hoary bat House cat House mouse Merriam's chipmunk Mountain lion Mule deer Ornate shrew Pig Raccoon Red bat Shrew-mole Spotted skunk Striped skunk Townsend's big-eared bat Trowbridge's shrew Vagrant shrew Virginia opossum Western harvest mouse Yuma myotis

20 Reptile Records for Golden Gate NRA
Common garter snake Common kingsnake Common slider Common slider Couch's garter snake Northern alligator lizard Painted turtle Pine snake Racer Ring-necked snake	Rubber boa Sharp-tailed snake Southern alligator lizard Striped racer Western aguatic garter snake Western fence lizard Western pond turtle Western rattlesnake Western skink Western terrestrial garter snake