Dos Palmas Preserve

Dos Palmas Preserve is a 14,000-acre (5,700 ha) wildlife preserve in the Colorado Desert in Riverside County, California, in the United States.

It contains a large oasis and wetland habitat, with pools fed both by water seeping from the Coachella Canal and by artesian water from several springs, including the Dos Palmas Spring.

[2] Endangered species at the preserve include the Yuma rail (a subspecies of Ridgway's rail), the desert pupfish and Orocopia sage; the black rail is on the state "threatened" list.

[2] More common resident or migrant species that may be seen at the oasis include the American avocet, black-necked stilt, bufflehead, desert woodrat, flat-tail horned lizard, leaf-nosed bat, least bittern, osprey, lesser scaup and snowy egret.

Loggerhead shrike, northern harrier and the prairie falcon are found in the surrounding desert.

desert pupfish released into Dos Palmas.