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A black-necked stilt at the SJWS. The landscaping has been designed to attract birds, and nesting boxes for the birds have been provided. While waterbirds such as herons, egrets, pelicans, sandpipers, ducks, geese, and kingfisher spredominate, monthly censuses have found over 120 species of birds, including terrestrial hawks, swallows, roadrunners, and hummingbirds.
Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta was designated a National Heritage Area on March 12, 2019. The city of Stockton is located on the San Joaquin River at the eastern edge of the delta. The total area of the Delta, including both land and water, is about 1,100 square miles (2,800 km 2). Its population is around 500,000.
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of along the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley, California. It is within San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County. It protects more than 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of riparian woodlands, wetlands, and grasslands and hosts a diversity of native wildlife.
John Savage flies the hexacopter drone loaded with anti-mosquito bacterial spore pellets at the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve at University of California in Irvine, Calif., on June 27, 2023.
Suisun Marsh, 116,000 acres (470 km 2) of land, bays, and sloughs, is one of the largest estuarine marshes in the western United States. Geologically, the Suisun Marsh is the product of water-borne sediment deposition, carried from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers into the San Francisco Bay.
The complex is composed of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, Merced National Wildlife Refuge, San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, and the Grasslands Wildlife Management Area. The complex consists of nearly 45,000 acres (180 km 2 ) of wetlands , grasslands, and riparian habitats , as well as over 90,000 acres (360 km 2 ) of ...
The San Joaquin River (/ ˌ s æ n hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / ⓘ SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: Río San Joaquín [ˈri.o saŋ xoaˈkin]) is the longest river of Central California.The 366-mile (589 km) long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.
Grasslands Wildlife Management Area lies within the San Joaquin River basin in California and supports the largest remaining block of wetlands in the Central Valley, containing 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of private wetlands and associated, and surrounding 53,000 acres (210 km 2) of state and federal lands.