Warner Sucker
Warner Sucker is recognizable by a medium sucker with an elongated body, broad mouth below the head, and subdued olive-gray coloring.
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It occurs in lakes, marshes, and connected streams of the Warner Basin; combine anatomy, season, and habitat because a name or single photograph is not enough when related species overlap. Threatened by habitat alteration, drought, barriers, and nonnative fishes.
Send documented sightings to ODFW or FWS. Spring spawning; otherwise difficult to observe. medium sucker with an elongated body, broad mouth below the head, and subdued olive-gray.
- Primary range
- Oregon
- Habitat
- lakes
- Status
- Threatened by habitat alteration
Quick guide
- Respect closure
- Use only legal public viewpoints and fishing rules.
- Watch water
- Spring movement may bring fish into tributaries.
Read the evidence for Warner Sucker
- First field mark
- Medium sucker with an elongated body, broad mouth below the head, and subdued olive-gray.
- Second check
- Lakes, marshes, and connected streams of the Warner Basin.
- Habitat test
- Spring movement into connected tributaries can improve visibility, but distance may prevent reliable identification.
- Legal observation
- Send documented sightings to ODFW or FWS.
Good to know
Threatened by habitat alteration, drought, barriers, and nonnative fishes. Protect Warner Sucker by observing a medium sucker with an elongated body, broad mouth below the head, and subdued olive-gray coloring from durable ground, leaving lakes, marshes, and connected streams of the Warner Basin undisturbed, and sharing sensitive coordinates only with conservation staff.
Notice these
- A medium sucker with an elongated body, broad mouth below the head, and subdued olive-gray coloring
- lakes, marshes, and connected streams of the Warner Basin
- Spring spawning; otherwise difficult to observe