Featured Species
The Colorado Ecological Services Field Offices are responsible for the 40+ species that are federally listed as threatened or endangered, or are under review for listing, throughout the state.
The links below will direct you to national pages about our federally-listed species in Colorado. You can explore species lists and habitat occupancy with IPAC.
Birds
- eastern black rail
- Gunnison sage-grouse
- lesser prairie-chicken
- Mexican spotted owl
- piping plover
- southwestern willow flycatcher
- whooping crane
- yellow-billed cuckoo
Fish
- bonytail
- Colorado pikeminnow
- greenback cutthroat trout
- humpback chub
- pallid sturgeon
- razorback sucker
- Rio Grande cutthroat trout
Invertebrates
- Pawnee montane skipper
- Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly
- monarch butterfly
- Regal Fritillary
- western bumble bee
Mammals
- black-footed ferret
- Canada lynx
- gray wolf
- New Mexico meadow jumping mouse
- North American wolverine
- Preble's meadow jumping mouse
- tri-colored bat
Plants
- Brandegee's buckwheat
- clay-loving wild buckwheat
- Colorado hookless cactus
- DeBeque phacelia
- Dudley Bluffs bladderpod
- Dudley Bluffs twinpod
- Knowlton's cactus
- Mancos milkvetch
- Mesa Verde cactus
- Mosquito Range mustard
- North Park phacelia
- Osterhout milkvetch
- Pagosa skyrocket
- Parachute beardtongue
- Penland beardtongue
- Ute ladies'-tresses orchid
- western prairie fringed orchid
Although whooping cranes, pallid sturgeons, and western prairie fringed orchids do not occur in Colorado, water depletions in the North Platte, South Platte, or Laramie river basins may affect these species where they occur in Nebraska.