Sacramento sits where the American and Sacramento rivers meet at the head of the delta, and it is one of the great wintering grounds on the Pacific Flyway. Chinook salmon run up both rivers in fall, river otters and beavers work the sloughs, and the surrounding rice country and refuges fill each winter with sandhill cranes, snow geese, and tundra swans. In town it is scrub-jays, Canada geese, and the wild turkeys that stroll the older neighborhoods.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Sacramento. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
110,759
recent observations
30
species listed
23
birds
3
insects & arthropods
2
reptiles & amphibians
Naturalists have logged 110,759 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Sacramento. The most frequently seen is the Mallard, with 6,364 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (23 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (3).