Wildlife near Irving, TX
Irving sits along the Trinity River between Dallas and Fort Worth, and the river and its lakes keep it green. Great egrets and herons work the water, the wooded bottomland holds bobcats, armadillos, and wood ducks, and the neighborhoods run to mockingbirds, cottontails, and Mississippi kites overhead in summer. Wintering waterfowl pack the lakes on the city’s edges.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Irving. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
Naturalists have logged 257,976 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Irving. The most frequently seen is the Northern Cardinal, with 15,274 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (16 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (8).
Most-observed species near Irving
Built from recent research-grade iNaturalist observations. Identifications are community-sourced and may occasionally be wrong, and the ranking reflects where people record and photograph wildlife, so a species seen often here is not necessarily rare elsewhere. Some plants and animals are only out in certain seasons. Treat this as a lively snapshot of what people are finding, not a formal checklist.
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