Most-seen wild species around Chico
154 sightings of Pipevine Swallowtail, the most-recorded species this past year. 3,429 research-grade sightings across the top 200 species.
Species ranked by the number of research-grade iNaturalist sightings within 10 km of downtown Chico (which takes in Bidwell Park) over the last 12 months.
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154sightings of Pipevine Swallowtail, the most-recorded species this past year
3,429research-grade sightings across the top 200 species
Plantsthe most-recorded group (1,670 sightings among the top species)
The records
| Rank | Common name | Scientific name | Group | Sightings | iNaturalist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pipevine Swallowtail | Battus philenor | Insects | 154 | inaturalist.org |
| 2 | Southern Alligator Lizard | Elgaria multicarinata | Reptiles | 66 | inaturalist.org |
| 3 | Western Fence Lizard | Sceloporus occidentalis | Reptiles | 62 | inaturalist.org |
| 4 | Asian Lady Beetle | Harmonia axyridis | Insects | 60 | inaturalist.org |
| 5 | Common Sharp-tailed Snake | Contia tenuis | Reptiles | 55 | inaturalist.org |
| 6 | California buckeye | Aesculus californica | Plants | 54 | inaturalist.org |
| 7 | California Dutchman's Pipe | Aristolochia californica | Plants | 52 | inaturalist.org |
| 8 | Pacific poison oak | Toxicodendron diversilobum | Plants | 48 | inaturalist.org |
| 9 | shield-bracted monkeyflower | Erythranthe glaucescens | Plants | 48 | inaturalist.org |
| 10 | California Scrub-Jay | Aphelocoma californica | Birds | 45 | inaturalist.org |
| 11 | Western Honey Bee | Apis mellifera | Insects | 41 | inaturalist.org |
| 12 | Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Birds | 38 | inaturalist.org |
| 13 | California yerba santa | Eriodictyon californicum | Plants | 38 | inaturalist.org |
| 14 | California sweetshrub | Calycanthus occidentalis | Plants | 36 | inaturalist.org |
| 15 | Toyon | Heteromeles arbutifolia | Plants | 35 | inaturalist.org |
| 16 | Yellow Mariposa Lily | Calochortus luteus | Plants | 34 | inaturalist.org |
| 17 | Buckbrush | Ceanothus cuneatus | Plants | 33 | inaturalist.org |
| 18 | California mugwort | Artemisia douglasiana | Plants | 31 | inaturalist.org |
| 19 | — | Leptoglossus zonatus | Insects | 31 | inaturalist.org |
| 20 | Western Boxelder Bug | Boisea rubrolineata | Insects | 30 | inaturalist.org |
| 21 | White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | Birds | 28 | inaturalist.org |
| 22 | American pokeweed | Phytolacca americana | Plants | 28 | inaturalist.org |
| 23 | turkey-tail | Trametes versicolor | Fungi | 26 | inaturalist.org |
| 24 | Johnnytuck | Triphysaria eriantha | Plants | 25 | inaturalist.org |
| 25 | Frémont's tidytips | Layia fremontii | Plants | 25 | inaturalist.org |
| 26 | Round-Tooth Ookow | Dichelostemma multiflorum | Plants | 25 | inaturalist.org |
| 27 | Hartweg's doll's-lily | Odontostomum hartwegii | Plants | 25 | inaturalist.org |
| 28 | gray pine | Pinus sabiniana | Plants | 24 | inaturalist.org |
| 29 | Arizona Mantis | Stagmomantis limbata | Insects | 24 | inaturalist.org |
| 30 | Half-edged Wall Jumping Spider | Menemerus semilimbatus | Spiders and kin | 24 | inaturalist.org |
| 31 | valley oak | Quercus lobata | Plants | 23 | inaturalist.org |
| 32 | splitgill mushroom | Schizophyllum commune | Fungi | 23 | inaturalist.org |
| 33 | Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Birds | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 34 | Acorn Woodpecker | Melanerpes formicivorus | Birds | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 35 | Western Black Widow | Latrodectus hesperus | Spiders and kin | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 36 | Painted Lady | Vanessa cardui | Insects | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 37 | California bay | Umbellularia californica | Plants | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 38 | Bold Jumping Spider | Phidippus audax | Spiders and kin | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 39 | yellow fieldcap | Bolbitius titubans | Fungi | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 40 | Rose Clover | Trifolium hirtum | Plants | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 41 | Western Toad | Anaxyrus boreas | Amphibians | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 42 | Western Hardwood Sulphur Shelf | Laetiporus gilbertsonii | Fungi | 22 | inaturalist.org |
| 43 | buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis | Plants | 21 | inaturalist.org |
| 44 | — | Colonus hesperus | Spiders and kin | 21 | inaturalist.org |
| 45 | Torrey's monkeyflower | Diplacus torreyi | Plants | 21 | inaturalist.org |
| 46 | Red-shouldered Hawk | Buteo lineatus | Birds | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 47 | Great Horned Owl | Bubo virginianus | Birds | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 48 | blue oak | Quercus douglasii | Plants | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 49 | interior live oak | Quercus wislizeni | Plants | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 50 | milk thistle | Silybum marianum | Plants | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 51 | blue dicks | Dipterostemon capitatus | Plants | 20 | inaturalist.org |
| 52 | Western Gray Squirrel | Sciurus griseus | Mammals | 19 | inaturalist.org |
| 53 | White-lined Sphinx | Hyles lineata | Insects | 19 | inaturalist.org |
| 54 | Leafhopper Assassin Bug | Zelus renardii | Insects | 19 | inaturalist.org |
| 55 | Western Rattlesnake | Crotalus oreganus | Reptiles | 18 | inaturalist.org |
| 56 | greater periwinkle | Vinca major | Plants | 18 | inaturalist.org |
| 57 | marigold pincushionplant | Navarretia tagetina | Plants | 18 | inaturalist.org |
| 58 | Nuttall's Woodpecker | Dryobates nuttallii | Birds | 18 | inaturalist.org |
| 59 | Mule Deer | Odocoileus hemionus | Mammals | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 60 | Polyphemus Moth | Antheraea polyphemus | Insects | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 61 | Gulf Fritillary | Dione vanillae | Insects | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 62 | Ithuriel's Spear | Triteleia laxa | Plants | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 63 | Mediterranean Stork's-bill | Erodium botrys | Plants | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 64 | Western Redbud | Cercis occidentalis | Plants | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 65 | western jack-o'-lantern | Omphalotus olivascens | Fungi | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 66 | Gray Buckeye | Junonia grisea | Insects | 17 | inaturalist.org |
| 67 | Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | Birds | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 68 | Golden-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia atricapilla | Birds | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 69 | Northern Flicker | Colaptes auratus | Birds | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 70 | Gopher Snake | Pituophis catenifer | Reptiles | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 71 | bird's-eye gilia | Gilia tricolor | Plants | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 72 | pineapple-weed | Matricaria discoidea | Plants | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 73 | Sacred Datura | Datura wrightii | Plants | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 74 | Large Yellow Underwing | Noctua pronuba | Insects | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 75 | blue elder | Sambucus cerulea | Plants | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 76 | California manroot | Marah fabacea | Plants | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 77 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | Birds | 16 | inaturalist.org |
| 78 | Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | Birds | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 79 | Oak Titmouse | Baeolophus inornatus | Birds | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 80 | Flame Skimmer | Libellula saturata | Insects | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 81 | California poppy | Eschscholzia californica | Plants | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 82 | Common Pill Woodlouse | Armadillidium vulgare | Other animals | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 83 | white brodiaea | Triteleia hyacinthina | Plants | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 84 | California wild grape | Vitis californica | Plants | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 85 | turkey mullein | Croton setiger | Plants | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 86 | Western Lynx Spider | Oxyopes scalaris | Spiders and kin | 15 | inaturalist.org |
| 87 | Anna's Hummingbird | Calypte anna | Birds | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 88 | European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Birds | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 89 | Pond Slider | Trachemys scripta | Reptiles | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 90 | California beeplant | Scrophularia californica | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 91 | golden milkcap | Lactarius alnicola | Fungi | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 92 | Vinegar Weed | Trichostema lanceolatum | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 93 | mule fat | Baccharis salicifolia | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 94 | cowbag clover | Trifolium depauperatum | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 95 | western sycamore | Platanus racemosa | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 96 | common woolly sunflower | Eriophyllum lanatum | Plants | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 97 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Birds | 14 | inaturalist.org |
| 98 | Pacific chorus frog | Pseudacris regilla | Amphibians | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 99 | Field madder | Sherardia arvensis | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 100 | Convergent Lady Beetle | Hippodamia convergens | Insects | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 101 | Fremont's Death Camas | Toxicoscordion fremontii | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 102 | checker lily | Fritillaria affinis | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 103 | harvest brodiaea | Brodiaea elegans | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 104 | Canyon liveforever | Dudleya cymosa | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 105 | moth mullein | Verbascum blattaria | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 106 | great mullein | Verbascum thapsus | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 107 | twining snakelily | Dichelostemma volubile | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 108 | Oregon Ash | Fraxinus latifolia | Plants | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 109 | Valley Carpenter Bee | Xylocopa sonorina | Insects | 13 | inaturalist.org |
| 110 | Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus | Birds | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 111 | wavy-leafed soap plant | Chlorogalum pomeridianum | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 112 | Winecup Clarkia | Clarkia purpurea | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 113 | Douglas' meadowfoam | Limnanthes douglasii | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 114 | common selfheal | Prunella vulgaris | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 115 | chicory | Cichorium intybus | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 116 | ribwort plantain | Plantago lanceolata | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 117 | California Maidenhair Fern | Adiantum jordanii | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 118 | glue-seed | Blennosperma nanum | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 119 | Fitch's tarweed | Centromadia fitchii | Plants | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 120 | American Bullfrog | Lithobates catesbeianus | Amphibians | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 121 | California Black Walnut Pouch Gall Mite | Aceria brachytarsa | Spiders and kin | 12 | inaturalist.org |
| 122 | Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Birds | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 123 | Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Birds | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 124 | Gray Hairstreak | Strymon melinus | Insects | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 125 | dot-seed plantain | Plantago erecta | Plants | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 126 | California Gall Wasp | Andricus quercuscalifornicus | Insects | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 127 | Vivid Dancer | Argia vivida | Insects | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 128 | deergrass | Muhlenbergia rigens | Plants | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 129 | bidwell's knotweed | Polygonum bidwelliae | Plants | 11 | inaturalist.org |
| 130 | California Quail | Callipepla californica | Birds | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 131 | Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | Birds | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 132 | Spotted Towhee | Pipilo maculatus | Birds | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 133 | Western Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio rutulus | Insects | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 134 | Monarch | Danaus plexippus | Insects | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 135 | Elegant Clarkia | Clarkia unguiculata | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 136 | Yellow Star-Thistle | Centaurea solstitialis | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 137 | wall barley | Hordeum murinum | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 138 | Lawn daisy | Bellis perennis | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 139 | Blow Wives | Achyrachaena mollis | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 140 | Olive | Olea europaea | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 141 | Northwestern Pond Turtle | Actinemys marmorata | Reptiles | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 142 | Hansen's Spikemoss | Selaginella hansenii | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 143 | Honeydew Gall Wasp | Disholcaspis eldoradensis | Insects | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 144 | Greenhouse Millipede | Oxidus gracilis | Other animals | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 145 | mock strawberry | Potentilla indica | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 146 | Garden Snail | Cornu aspersum | Snails and slugs | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 147 | Padre's Shooting Star | Primula clevelandii | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 148 | yellow and white monkeyflower | Erythranthe bicolor | Plants | 10 | inaturalist.org |
| 149 | Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Birds | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 150 | goldback fern | Pentagramma triangularis | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 151 | Naked Buckwheat | Eriogonum nudum | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 152 | common groundsel | Senecio vulgaris | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 153 | coffeeberry | Frangula californica | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 154 | Common Manzanita | Arctostaphylos manzanita | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 155 | henbit deadnettle | Lamium amplexicaule | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 156 | Yellow-faced Bumble Bee | Bombus vosnesenskii | Insects | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 157 | sand fringepod | Thysanocarpus curvipes | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 158 | woollypod milkweed | Asclepias eriocarpa | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 159 | narrowleaf onion | Allium amplectens | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 160 | Italian arum | Arum italicum | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 161 | California brodiaea | Brodiaea californica | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 162 | Common Green Darner | Anax junius | Insects | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 163 | Western Velvety Tree Ant | Liometopum occidentale | Insects | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 164 | Tehama navarretia | Navarretia heterandra | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 165 | Bridges' Brodiaea | Triteleia bridgesii | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 166 | Brown Marmorated Stink Bug | Halyomorpha halys | Insects | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 167 | Great Egret | Ardea alba | Birds | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 168 | scarlet monkeyflower | Erythranthe cardinalis | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 169 | shy monkeyflower | Erythranthe nasuta | Plants | 9 | inaturalist.org |
| 170 | Green Heron | Butorides virescens | Birds | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 171 | Brewer's Blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus | Birds | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 172 | Frémont Cottonwood | Populus fremontii | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 173 | miner's lettuce | Claytonia perfoliata | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 174 | Common Fiddleneck | Amsinckia menziesii | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 175 | hairy curtain crust | Stereum hirsutum | Fungi | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 176 | Honey Mushroom | Armillaria mellea | Fungi | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 177 | common hedge parsley | Torilis arvensis | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 178 | Q-tips | Micropus californicus | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 179 | Little quaking-grass | Briza minor | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 180 | hollyleaf redberry | Rhamnus ilicifolia | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 181 | downy pincushionplant | Navarretia pubescens | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 182 | whitehead navarretia | Navarretia leucocephala | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 183 | Variegated Meadowhawk | Sympetrum corruptum | Insects | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 184 | Purpus' Phacelia | Phacelia purpusii | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 185 | California Greenbrier | Smilax californica | Plants | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 186 | Emma's Dancer | Argia emma | Insects | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 187 | Van Dyke's Bumble Bee | Bombus vandykei | Insects | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 188 | Lesser Goldfinch | Spinus psaltria | Birds | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 189 | Giant Water Scavenger Beetle | Hydrophilus triangularis | Insects | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 190 | Cooper's Hawk | Astur cooperii | Birds | 8 | inaturalist.org |
| 191 | Wild Turkey | Meleagris gallopavo | Birds | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 192 | Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | Birds | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 193 | Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Birds | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 194 | Virginia Opossum | Didelphis virginiana | Mammals | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 195 | narrowleaf soap plant | Chlorogalum angustifolium | Plants | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 196 | valley tassels | Castilleja attenuata | Plants | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 197 | milkmaids | Cardamine californica | Plants | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 198 | Seven-spotted Lady Beetle | Coccinella septempunctata | Insects | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 199 | Deathcap | Amanita phalloides | Fungi | 7 | inaturalist.org |
| 200 | coyote brush | Baccharis pilularis | Plants | 7 | inaturalist.org |
Counts reflect where people look and photograph, not how common a species really is. Research grade means at least two people agreed on the identification.