Preservation Ranch is home to a number of unique species of plants, as well as a vast array of birds and wildlife. We’re committed to conservation, organizing the importance of maintaining the land these plants and creatures call home.
We asked a biologist to identify notable native plants and songbirds. In just two hours, she identified 53 different species of birds. Just imagine the undiscovered treasures within Preservation Ranch.
Native Flora
- Damianita
- Evergreen Sumac
- Escarpment Blackcherry
- Texas Madrone Tree (Arbutus Xalapensis)
- Wild Dewberry
- Live Oak Trees
- Prickly Pear
- Sycamore
- Hackberry
- Elbowbush
- Mature Juniper
- Texas Oak
- Cedar
- Elm
- Buckeye
- Red buckeye
- Buttonbush
- Little Bluestem
- Switchgrass
- Seep Muhly
- Sideoats grama
Notable Bird Species
- Painted Bunting
- Vermillion Flycatcher
- Orchard Oriole
- Northern Bobwhite Quail
- Northern Crested Caracara also known as the Mexican Eagle
- Red-tailed hawk
Other Birds
- Wild Turkey
- Black Vulture
- Wild Vulture
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Common Ground Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Common Ground Hawk
- Mourning Dove
- Yellow Billed Cuckoo
- Greater Roadrunner
- Chimney Swift
- Black Chinned Hummingbird
- Common Nighthawk
- Chuck Will’s Widow
- Red Bellied Woodpecker
- Eastern Phoebe
- Ash Throated Flycatcher
- Greater Crested Flycatcher
- Western Kingbird
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- White-eyed Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
- American Crow
- Purple Martin
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Carolina Chickadee
- Black-crested Titmouse
- Carolina Wren
- Berwick’s Wren
- Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Black-and-White Warbler
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Summer Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue Grosbeak
- Painted Bunting
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Orchard Oriole
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- House Sparrow
- European Collared-Dove
