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Wildlife in Putah Creek include:
Heron, egrets, kingfishers, ducks, geese, pond turtles, beaver, otter, mink, and some native fish species. And a rare bear and mountain lion.
If you encounter a bear or mountain lion, don't run. Instead, face the animal, make noise, throw rocks, and try to look bigger, get close together if you are in a group, pick up children and dogs. Take off your backpack if it has food in in and throw it away.

Creekside Neighbors | Putah Creek Council

According to Restored sections reduced wildlife| Friends of Putah Creek, "Sections where the Creek channel has been narrowed and "restored" provide better viewing of spawning salmon for a few weeks of each year, but fish and wildlife that were previously found in the "unrestored" sections are now scarcely found where the channel has been narrowed."

Twice as many birds at Putah Creek after water restored
Melanie Truan, a staff research associate with the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, has been conducting bird surveys along Putah Creek for about 20 years. Credit: Kat Kerlin/UC Davis.

Putah Creek Terrestrial Wildlife Monitoring Program