
Oregon
Pacific rainforest Roosevelt elk, coastal blacktail deer, and rugged high-desert pronghorn and bighorn draws.
Native Species in Oregon
Official Regulatory Authority
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)

Roosevelt Elk
Inhabiting the lush, wet coastal rainforests and Cascade foothills of western Oregon. Roosevelt bulls are massive ungulates weighing up to 1,000 lbs with dark, heavy-beamed antlers often featuring crown points. They browse salal, elderberry, and ferns, thriving in clearcuts and mature forest mosaics.

Rocky Mountain Elk
Abundant in eastern Oregon, especially throughout the Blue, Wallowa, and Ochoco mountains. Mature bulls weigh 650 to 850 lbs and produce wide, sweeping six-point antler configurations. They graze high alpine meadows in summer and migrate to lower elevation bunchgrass valleys in winter.

Columbian Black-Tailed Deer
The dominant deer of western Oregon, occupying dense coniferous forests, coastal headlands, and the Willamette Valley. Highly secretive and adapted to rainforest undergrowth, black-tailed deer feed on blackberries, lichens, mushrooms, and cedar browse.

Mule Deer
Inhabits eastern Oregon's sagebrush steppe, bitterbrush flats, and western juniper timber. Mature bucks weigh 180 to 260 lbs. Mule deer are famous for their bounding stotting gait, large ears, and reliance on vast unbroken tracts of public BLM and USFS lands.

Pronghorn
Roams the vast, open sagebrush basins and alkaline flats of southeast Oregon, notably in Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties. The fastest land animal in North America, pronghorn rely on phenomenal 8x telescopic vision and speeds exceeding 55 mph to evade coyotes across open plains.

Cougar (Mountain Lion)
An elusive top predator widespread across the Cascades, Blue Mountains, and canyon breaks of eastern Oregon. Adults weigh 100 to 180 lbs. Protected from hound hunting, Oregon's cougar population has expanded, maintaining natural balance among ungulate herds.

California Valley Quail
Prominent native upland game bird recognizable by its curved black head plume and scaled breast plumage. Coveys inhabit riparian brush, agricultural field edges, and sagebrush draws throughout central, southern, and eastern Oregon.

Chukar Partridge
Found along steep, rocky canyon walls, talus slopes, and rims of the Deschutes, John Day, Malheur, and Owyhee river drainages. Highly prized by upland hunters for their endurance-testing habitat and rapid downhill escape flights.