Secretive Marsh Birds
It’s a good thing birders are able to identify species that they hear, but can't locate. Coastal birds whose home is in the salt marsh...
Periwinkle Snails
The white shells of the marsh periwinkle snail, Littoraria irrorata, are hard to miss on marsh sediments in winter and on the stems of...
Oysters: Food and Fortress
The most abundant bivalve in southern estuaries is the American, or eastern, oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Its gray shell is easily...
Sea Anemones
Sea anemones, like the one pictured above in a tide pool on the Oregon coast, at first glance seem like flowers from an alien world. The...
Island Dog
Soon after we returned to Sapelo Island in spring of 1981, following a year-and-a-half research sabbatical in Israel, we decided we...
Salt Marsh Grass is One Tough Plant
The great flats of salt marshes, green in summer, golden in fall, are an impressive feature of the Georgia coast. Two-thirds to...
Marshes of Glynn
Not many landscapes have had a famous poem dedicated to them. One such, of course, are the Golden Isles of the Georgia coast: sea islands...
Fishy Monsters
Fishing around docks and oyster reefs can yield an unpleasant surprise: squirming on the hook is a squat, monstrous-looking fish with a...
Sticking to It: Barnacles
Although barnacles live in shells made of calcium carbonate plates stuck to docks, boat bottoms, and other hard surfaces, they are in...
Water Babies
A 19th century children's book: 'The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby,' written by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, was popular...
