Wildlife near Sacramento, California

Illustrated wildlife of Sacramento

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.

112,215

recent observations

30

species listed

23

birds

3

insects & arthropods

2

reptiles & amphibians

Naturalists have logged 112,215 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Sacramento. The most frequently seen is the Mallard, with 6,408 recorded sightings.

Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (23 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (3).

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Most-observed species near Sacramento

Anas platyrhynchos

6,408 observations

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

6,238 observations

Anna's Hummingbird

5,427 observations

Western Fence Lizard

Sceloporus occidentalis

4,796 observations

Branta canadensis

4,746 observations

Sayornis nigricans

4,625 observations

Eastern Fox Squirrel

4,586 observations

4,503 observations

California Scrub-Jay

Aphelocoma californica

4,501 observations

Haemorhous mexicanus

4,144 observations

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Setophaga coronata

4,090 observations

White-crowned Sparrow

Zonotrichia leucophrys

4,048 observations

Meleagris gallopavo

3,930 observations

Western Bluebird

Sialia mexicana

3,883 observations

Western Honey Bee

3,839 observations

Zenaida macroura

3,827 observations

Red-shouldered Hawk

3,751 observations

Great Blue Heron

3,487 observations

Lesser Goldfinch

Spinus psaltria

3,261 observations

Pipevine Swallowtail

Battus philenor

3,035 observations

Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

2,866 observations

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

2,727 observations

2,685 observations

Trachemys scripta

2,605 observations

Swainson's Hawk

Buteo swainsoni

2,499 observations

Horse-fly Carpenter Bee

Xylocopa tabaniformis

2,377 observations

2,374 observations

Psaltriparus minimus

2,372 observations

2,307 observations

Double-crested Cormorant

Nannopterum auritum

2,278 observations

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