Watch Wildlife

How many mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, bugs, or marine animals you can find in one day?

Search for crabs, clams, mussels, and barnacles along the shore using the Tide Pool Hunt sheet.

Creatures of the Microwilderness is your guide to common bugs and other spineless creatures, including butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, crickets, snails, and spiders.

Be on the lookout for deer, fox, coyote, rabbits, raccoons, muskrat, squirrels, voles, harbor seals, or other mammals that call the islands home. Help us track mammals by returning a completed Mammal Sighting Form. Send a picture of what you see! Remember, watching is fine but please DO NOT attract, feed, or disturb any species of wildlife.

Are you a birder? Check out the birds nesting on, or passing through, the islands. Record your own sightings on the eBird Checklist and enter what you see at eBird.org—one of the largest biodiversity data resources in existence.

Go to the Nature page to learn more about wildlife in the park: Nature [1]
Go to PDF version of: eBird Checklist [2]
Go to PDF version of: Tide Pool Hunt [3]
Go to PDF version of: Creatures of the Microwilderness [4]
Go to PDF version of: Mammal Sighting Form [5]
Visit All About Birds [6]for a guide to birds and birdwatching
Visit eBird [7] to submit your bird observations

Links:
[1] http://bostonharborislands.org/nature
[2] http://www.nps.gov/boha/naturescience/upload/BIRD%20BROCHURE%209_2%20for%20web.pdf
[3] http://www.nps.gov/boha/supportyourpark/upload/tide-pool-hunt.pdf
[4] http://www.nps.gov/boha/naturescience/upload/creatures-of-the-microwilderness.pdf
[5] http://www.nps.gov/boha/supportyourpark/upload/Mammal-Sighting-Form-FINAL.pdf
[6] http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=1189&ac=ac
[7] http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about

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