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Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes
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Beaches, dunes, barrier islands, salt marshes, bluffs, and bays compose the Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes ecoregion. These coastal features were created from the terminal moraines of Pleistocene ice sheets. Barrier islands protect the mainland from erosion by ocean storms, but they are often eroded on their seaward side by wave action and sometimes breached by violent storms or hurricanes. Barrier islands are maintained by eroded sediments carried along shore by ocean currents and deposited on the islands. Typically, two parallel dune zones line the seaward side of barrier islands. Dune grass, sea rocket, saltwort, and seaside spurge grow in the primary dune zone. Low shrub thickets composed of bayberry, beach plum, shadbush, mountain laurel, and highbush blueberry grow in the secondary dune zone. American holly, black gum, red cedar, pitch pine, dwarf beech, sassafras, and lianas of roundleaf sweetbriar occur in moist, protected hollows and swales on barrier islands and narrow peninsulas. On the bay side of barrier islands, salt marshes are populated mainly by smooth and salt-meadow cordgrass. In addition to providing beach recreation for human visitors, barrier islands serve as important nesting sites for several endangered or threatened birds, such as the piping plover, black skimmer, common tern, and least tern.
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Plants
London Planetree
Platanus hybrida (species)
29,886
Observations
JAN - DEC
Norway Maple
Acer platanoides (species)
15,364
Observations
JAN - DEC
Honey Locust
Gleditsia triacanthos (species),
“Sweet-Locust”, “Three-Thorn-Acacia”, “Sweet-Bean”
9,779
Observations
JAN - DEC
Callery Pear
Pyrus calleryana (species)
6,494
Observations
JAN - DEC
Pin Oak
Quercus palustris (species)
5,897
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Harbour Porpoise
Phocoena phocoena (species),
“Common Porpoise”, “Harbor Porpoise”
103
Observations
JAN - DEC
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
Tursiops truncatus (species),
“Bottlenose Dolphin”, “Bottle-Nosed Dophin”, “Common Bottle-Nosed Dolphin”, “Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin”, “Bottle-Nosed Dolphin”, “Cowfish”
68
Observations
JAN - DEC
Eastern Cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus (species)
31
Observations
JAN - DEC
Short-Beaked Common Dolphin
Delphinus delphis (species),
“Short-Beaked Common Elephant”, “Atlantic Dolphin”, “Pacific Dolphin”, “Saddle-Backed Dolphin”, “Short-Beaked Saddleback Dolphin”, “Crisscross Dolphin”, “Common Dolphin”
18
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bufo Fowleri
Anaxyrus fowleri (species),
“Fowler's Toad”
14
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Birds
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatus (species),
“Herring Gull”
243,400
Observations
JAN - DEC
Great Black-Backed Gull
Larus marinus (species),
“Greater Black-Backed Gull”
193,351
Observations
JAN - DEC
Canada Goose
Branta canadensis (species),
“Lesser Canada Goose”, “Greater Canada Goose”
184,798
Observations
JAN - DEC
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos (species),
“Wild Duck”, “Mallard Duck”, “Common Mallard”, “Northern Mallard”
166,584
Observations
JAN - DEC
Double-Crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus (species)
166,310
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Insects
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus (species),
“Monarch”, “Milkweed”, “Common Tiger”, “Wanderer”, “Black Veined Brown”, “Common Tiger Wanderer”
1,456
Observations
JAN - DEC
Junonia coenia
SPECIES ·
“Common Buckeye”
57
Observations
JAN - DEC
Erythemis simplicicollis
SPECIES ·
“Eastern Pondhawk”
33
Observations
JAN - DEC
American Painted Lady
Vanessa virginiensis (species)
32
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bombus impatiens
SPECIES ·
“Common Eastern Bumblebee”
23
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Fungi
Flavoparmelia caperata
SPECIES ·
“Common Greenshield Lichen”, “Flavoparmelia Lichen”
15
Observations
JAN - DEC
Physcia millegrana
SPECIES ·
“Rosette Lichen”
10
Observations
JAN - DEC
Cladonia cristatella
SPECIES ·
“Cup Lichen”
10
Observations
JAN - DEC
Cladonia subtenuis
SPECIES ·
“Dixie Reindeer Lichen”, “Reindeer Lichen”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Boletus suberosus
SPECIES
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
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Ecoregion
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Ecoregion
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes
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