Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Discover some of the wildlife that call Fossil Butte National Monument home.

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A badger sits next to a mound of dirt amid grass and looks towards the camera. Yellow flowers dot the grass in the background.

Badger (Taxidea taxus)

3888 x 5184
9.1 MB

A male elk viewed through tree branches. Several females graze on grass nearby.

Elk (Cervus canadensis)

3240 x 4320
4.6 MB

A pronghorn with tan and white fur and horns less than a quarter size of the ears looks at the camera. It stands amid a field of blue flowers that grow on top of long stems.

Pronghorn (Antilocapra america...

3456 x 5184
6.6 MB

Three prairie dogs in a row stand on a mound of dirt in a grassy area.

White-tailed prairie dogs (Cyn...

3888 x 5184
12.3 MB

A white prairie dog with red eyes stands in the grass eating some grass.

Albino white-tailed prairie do...

5184 x 3888
7.0 MB

A brown squirrel with a red tail and a white underside stands in a bush eating berries.

Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hud...

3456 x 4608
7.0 MB

A chipmunk holds its tail to its mouth as it sits on a rock wall.

Least chipmunk (Neotamias mini...

3888 x 5184
7.5 MB

A squirrel stands on a rock outcrop. A white stripe can be seen along its back, standing out amid black fur.

Golden-mantled ground squirrel...

3456 x 4608
7.1 MB

Two female deer look at the camera standing amid sagebrush and other shrubs.

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus...

4000 x 6000
18.7 MB

Two young-looking birds sit next to each other, puffed up so that you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. The birds have gray heads and orange bellies and are perched on a plastic pipe covering.

Say's phoebe chicks (Sayornis ...

3888 x 5184
7.0 MB

A small brown rabbit hunched in the snow.

Cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttall...

3456 x 5184
4.4 MB

A small gray rabbit with a short face sitting in the snow.

Pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idah...

3888 x 5184
10.7 MB

A white rabbit with long ears and some brown spots showing through the white stands up on a patch of dirt in between drifts of snow.

White-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus...

3888 x 5184
6.6 MB

A white weasel stands in the snow next to sagebrush.

Long tailed weasel (Mustela fr...

3888 x 5184
6.7 MB

A female moose stands amid sagebrush.

Moose (Alces alces)

3888 x 5184
10.0 MB

A large brown marmot with a dark gray face rests on all fours on a rocky slope with yellow flowers nearby.

Yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota...

3888 x 5184
10.9 MB

A brown, round lizard covered in short spikes sits on gravel.

Greater Short-Horned Lizard (P...

3888 x 5184
8.9 MB

A gray bird with black, white, and yellow wings and a yellow throat sits on a red twig with no leaves.

Yellow-rumped warbler (Setopha...

3888 x 5184
6.2 MB

An orange bird with a black head and black and white wings perched on the branches of an aspen tree.

Bullock's oriole (Icterus bull...

3888 x 5184
6.8 MB

A blue bird with black wing tips sits on a white post with its back to the camera but its head is turned to the left.

Mountain bluebird (Sialia curr...

3888 x 5184
5.0 MB

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