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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.
It primarily consists of an area known as McNabney Marsh, [a] which lies alongside Interstate 680 near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and between two large and active oil refineries. The marsh drains into Suisun Bay via Peyton Slough. The area provides habitat for a wide variety of waterfowl and shorebirds for resting and feeding. [1]
[a] The marsh land is part of a tidal estuary, and subject to tidal ebb and flood. The marsh is home to many species of birds and other wildlife, and is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers between Martinez and Suisun City, California and several other smaller, local watersheds.
Hundreds of birds made a New Year’s Day stop at the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. KCRA 3 spotted a few types of geese in the fields, among other varieties of birds. The four-mile ...
The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is located in Stanislaus County and San Joaquin County. It encompasses over 7,000 acres (28 km 2 ) of riparian woodlands, wetlands and grasslands that host a diversity of wildlife native to California's Central Valley.
According to the East Bay Regional Parks District, Big Break Regional Shoreline provides habitat for at least 70 species of birds and several species of mammals. They include: [ 4 ] Birds include black rail , northern harrier , white-tailed kite , yellow-breasted chat , great blue heron , great egret , snowy egret , green heron , white-faced ...
The wetlands provide habitat for birds as part of the Pacific Flyway. [2] Through restoration and maintenance of native habitat diversity, the refuge also provides suitable habitat for several endangered species as well as preserving a remnant example of the historic valley uplands in the San Joaquin Desert.
A red-winged blackbird sings above a marsh in western Richland County, Ohio, south of Lake Erie. The bird species was one of 18 counted in a recently published study of marsh bird abundance at ...