Glendale sits in the west Salt River valley in the Sonoran Desert, and the desert works right into the neighborhoods. Gila woodpeckers, mourning doves, and curve-billed thrashers hold the yards, desert cottontails and ground squirrels work the gravel, and the Thunderbird Conservation Park in the hills on the north side holds quail, roadrunners, and desert spiny lizards among the saguaros.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Glendale. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
88,229
recent observations
30
species listed
11
plants
14
birds
2
insects & arthropods
Naturalists have logged 88,229 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Glendale. The most frequently seen is the saguaro, with 11,489 recorded sightings.
Plants account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (11 of the species listed here), followed by birds (14).