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  1. Recent Stories

Tagged Stories: "wildlife"

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Chesapeake Stewardship Partnership News Restoration Spotlight Travel, Recreation and Culture Watershed Science Wildlife

Baltimore’s floating wetlands are bubbling with life

February 2, 2026

The National Aquarium’s Harbor Wetland attracts species big and small

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A worker wades through shallow water and tall grasses, holding a long pole with a net at the end, the cityscape visible a short distance away.

Flag Ponds Nature Park hosts horseshoe crab campout under the stars

June 30, 2025

Event offers guests a chance to witness horseshoe crab spawning

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A mass of horseshoe crabs gathers on a shoreline

Native Chesapeake plants and their picky pollinators

May 2, 2025

Learn more about the specialist pollinators that call the Bay region home

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Monarch caterpillars feed on common milkweed leaves in Anne Arundel County, Md., on Aug. 10, 2022.

The race to reverse the saltmarsh sparrow's decline

December 6, 2024

The fate of a species depends on saving its waterlogged habitat

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A saltmarsh sparrow is held by a researcher.

What’s your ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Chesapeake Bay?

June 7, 2024

Chesapeake Bay Program staff and partners spotlight their favorite wildlife, places, programs and people

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Man holds a small fish in one hand and net in the other.

The eastern painted turtle: A natural work of art

April 5, 2024

A reptile famous for its colorful shell

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Eastern painted turtle basks in the sun on a log.

A small creature faced with a big environmental task

March 6, 2024

Brook floaters are threatened by climate change, invasive species and pollution

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A mussel rests among algae-covered rocks, its soft filtering tissues visible in a partly open shell.

Seven successes show there’s more than one way to restore a wetland

February 12, 2024

Seven unique wetland projects from across the Bay watershed

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A woman wearing a dark baseball cap and bright yellow life vest paddles a canoe through calm water and past a small wetland, which is protected by a fence.

Dobsonfly adults are all bark and no bite

September 6, 2023

The eastern dobsonfly may look intimidating but the larvae are the real predators

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5 LBBs (little brown birds) to see in the Chesapeake

March 3, 2023

Identifying commonly overlooked birds

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A song sparrow visits Rock Creek at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2021.

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