Invertebrates
A wide variety of invertebrates live in salt marshes: insects, crustaceans, molluscs, worms and more.
Grass Shrimp
Diamondback Terrapin
Reptiles
Only two reptiles are salt marsh specialists: Diamondback Turtle and Salt Marsh Water Snake. Other reptiles visit occassionally.
Eastern Box Turtle
Birds
Birds are the animals we see most in the salt marsh.
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Clapper Rail
Marsh Rabbit
Mammals
Mammals are the hardest animals to observe in the salt marsh.
River otter in muddy marsh creek
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