
Western Grebe - Graceful Delta Diver

Killdeer - Wading Wonder

Black-necked Stilt - Elegant Walker

Avocet - Stylish Shorebird

Ring-billed Gulls - Common Flier

Pelican - Graceful Swimmer

Black-crowned Night Heron - Nocturnal Hunter

Blue Heron - Tall Delta Resident

Snowy Egret - Elegant White

Green Heron - Clever Fisher

Butorides virescens

Charadrius semipalmatus

Calidris melanotos

Tringa semipalmata

Megaceryle alcyon

Phalacrocoracidae

Sterna forsteri

Hydroprogne caspia

Thalasseus maximus

Calidris minutilla

A close-up of the Grey Plover in its natural habitat.

Least Sandpiper feeding in the mudflats at low tide on the Carquinez Shoreline. The Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the shorebirds and can be identified by the yellow legs, brown upper parts and white lower parts.
Black-crowned Night Heron waiting patiently for fish at the locks leading to the duck pond at Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park. These stocky little birds are most active at night or at dusk and can be identified by their gray/black plumage and long white head plumes. They live in fresh, salt and brackish wetlands and are the most common heron throughout the world.
Birds of the California Delta