page_title: Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness / Wildlife / Birds
caption_attribution_description: English: Desert bighorn sheep in the Hellhole Canyon in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Cropped from original.
context_page_description: The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a 112,500 acres wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, United States, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons.
  The Paria River flows through the wilderness before joining the Colorado River at Lee's Ferry, Arizona.
  The U.S. Congress designated the wilderness area in 1984 and it was largely incorporated into the new Vermilion Cliffs National Monument proclaimed in 2000 by executive order of President Bill Clinton.
  Both the wilderness area and the National Monument are administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
  The Colorado Plateau and its river basins are of immense value in the Earth sciences, specifically chronostratigraphy, as the region contains multiple terrain features exposing miles-thick contiguous rock columns that geologists and paleobiologists use as reference strata of the geologic record.
context_section_description: Many bird species are found in the Wilderness, including bald eagle, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, red-tailed hawk, great horned owl, and Cooper's hawk. Other birds seen in the Wilderness include white-throated swift, violet-green swallow, rock wren, canyon wren, killdeer, cliff swallow, black-throated sparrow, ruby-crowned kinglet, blue-gray gnatcatcher, black-chinned hummingbird, great blue heron, flycatchers and various species of duck.
  The Wilderness was the location of a 1996 release of captively-bred endangered California condors in an attempt to re-introduce them to the wild.
caption: Desert bighorn sheep
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