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Written on: May 14th, 2019 in Wetland Animals
By Clare Sevcik, DNREC’s Nonpoint Source Program There are so many charismatic animals that make Delaware waterways their home. Most people living in Delaware can easily recognize a few of the most popular species: bald eagles, osprey, blue crabs, horseshoe crabs, beavers, river otters, and many more. But there are many more animals living below […]
Written on: May 8th, 2019 in Wetland Animals
By Erin Dorset, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Birding is always exciting in Delaware. While some bird species are year-round residents, many others are migrants traveling along the Atlantic Flyway. This keeps things interesting, as it allows birders to see a very wide variety of species throughout the year. A lot of these awesome […]
Written on: September 11th, 2018 in Wetland Animals
By Kurt Cheng, The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Upon hearing the term “freshwater mussel”, what do you think of? Is it that tasty seafood restaurant that serves them in white wine or steamed with garlic and parsley? If so, you’re probably not alone. But what if I told you we don’t eat freshwater mussels? […]
Written on: September 19th, 2017 in Wetland Animals
By Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Did you know that Delaware has multiple species of crayfish? While crayfish may look like small lobsters, they are actually distant cousins. The most differentiating feature is that lobsters live in saltwater, and crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, or whatever you would like to call them, live in […]
Written on: March 15th, 2017 in Wetland Animals
By Amy Nazdrowicz, Landmark Science & Engineering As residents of the Delmarva Peninsula, we are blessed with a high diversity of herpetofauna, (reptiles and amphibians), in part because of our landscape position which transitions between two physiographic regions: the coastal plain in its southern and central portions to the piedmont in the north. And no […]
Written on: December 9th, 2016 in Wetland Animals
By Kari St.Laurent, DNREC’s Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve Fiddler crabs are one of the most iconic critters in the salt marsh. Male fiddler crabs have an unmistakable single large claw, paired with a tiny claw, which is used to court female fiddler crabs. But did you know that crabs start their life as microscopic […]
Written on: May 30th, 2016 in Wetland Animals
By Maggie Pletta, DNREC’s Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve The Delaware Bay is home to the largest population of horseshoe crabs in the world, which is just one of the many reasons the Delaware Bay is so special. The horseshoe crab has been around since before the dinosaurs and is an important animal to the […]
Written on: March 14th, 2016 in Wetland Animals
BY Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Thanks to all that extra water lying around, all sorts of amphibians start to come alive this time of year in Delaware. Frogs and salamanders use these seasonal pools of water, or wetlands, to breed and can only do so because predatory fish cannot survive the […]
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