Category: Horseshoe Crabs
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Goings On Around the Harbor
Our Finfish Shellfish Survey Underway! We are thrilled that Owen Nichols from the Center for Coastal Studies has begun the Finfish Shellfish Survey. He using trawls, seines, and traps to capture and identify the wide variety of critters that inhabit the waters of Barnstable Harbor. Keep an eye on the harbor for his Center for…
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Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs
Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are an emblematic species of our coastal ecology. They are keystone species which have shared our waters for over 400 million years. Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs but are arachnids which include spiders and scorpions. They occur in shallow coastal waters on soft, sandy or muddy bottoms where they…
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Youth Education Program -yep!
Friday’s Youth Education Program yep! trips with Barnstable Harbor Ecotour were a big hit with Barnstable High School English Language Learners. Topics covered on the trips ranged from basic mapping, bird identification and behavior, description of Barnstable Harbor’s extraordinary tides and selfies! Yes selfies, it seems that no matter how beautiful the surrounding scenery, there…