Fish and Wildlife Service worker and Fish and Wildlife volunteer riding on all-terrain-vehicle while talking about the restoration project at the Refuge.
Habitat: Salt, brackish, and fresh marshes, rice fields, mangroves. May forage in any kind of shallow water, commonly flying to feed in fresh water even in coastal regions. Foraging sites include marshes, mudflats, flooded pastures, lake edges,...
The habitat of this bird is coniferous forests and pine and oak woods in southern part of range, small groves and stands of mixed oak and redwood in northern California.