• Large wintering populations of pintails, green-winged teal, shovelers, mallards, gadwalls, four species of geese, plus sandhill cranes.
• Fall and spring migrants include phalaropes, yellowlegs, dowitchers, sandpipers, long-billed curlews, black-bellied plovers and white-faced ibis.
• Summer residents include nesting mallards, gadwalls, cinnamon teal, avocets, black-necked stilts, American bitterns, and several species of herons and egrets.
• Ring-necked pheasants are common.

HABITAT

7,035 acres of native grasslands, agricultural fields, and wetlands provide the primary wintering area for the largest flock of lesser sandhill cranes and Ross' geese in the Pacific Flyway, as well as important habitat for northern pintails, cackling Canada geese, and a wide variety of shorebirds.

RECREATION AND EDUCATION

• Wildlife observation, study, and photography
• Waterfowl hunting
• Pheasant hunting