Features (Creature Feature)

Article - Creature Feature; by Janie Suss - 9/22/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Farewell Olive...

Death interrupts but does not end the osprey cycle

As the osprey head south this year, we say goodbye forever to one special bird: Olive Osprey.
Like many of her species, she was shot. Not over Cuba or the Dominican Republic, where fish farmers consider osprey birds of prey. Olive was shot as she sat on her eggs in her nest in Southern Anne Arundel County, where she had been welcomed and had gained celebrity.
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Article - Creature Feature; by by Chris Swarth, Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Director - 9/15/11

This Week’s Creature Feature: Riding Out the Flood

How Patuxent animals coped with high water

The record-setting flood on the Patuxent River that shut down parts of Route 4 and Route 301 on September 8 also created chaos and danger for the animals living in Jug Bay marshes. Mattress-sized clumps of uprooted marsh plants and large logs floated fast downstream. The current in the river’s main channel was pumping three times faster than normal.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 9/8/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Mosquitoes Are...

Itching is the least of their nasty woes

Downed trees, dented houses and absent power are the larger consequence of Irene, Lee and their ilk. But the smaller consequences can also get under your skin. And keep you itching.
Mosquitoes are biting. Many kinds of mosquitoes.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 9/1/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... In Calvert Citizens...

$2.4 million federal grant resolves the conflict

The little Puritan tiger beetle has it way better than many other bugs in the news.
   Stinkbugs and emerald ash borers: We’re dead-set on eliminating those alien destroyers.
   But the Puritan tiger beetle was here long before us, and to keep it here we go to great lengths.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 8/25/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... A New Tree Grows in...

Pumpkin Ash found at Jug Bay adds to number of native species

When your official list of trees includes only 29 species, the addition of one more makes a big boost. Anne Arundel’s rise to 29 from 28 came from the addition of Fraxinus profunda.
Profunda, familiarly known as the pumpkin ash, was identified and measured at Jug Bay Wetland Sanctuary this month by Maryland Big Tree volunteer Dan Wilson of Harford County....

Article - Creature Feature; by Margaret Tearman - 8/18/11

Dog Days’ Creature Feature

Canine Candid Camera

We all think — make that know — that our dogs are the smartest, funniest, sassiest, most beautiful creatures in the world. To prove it, more and more of us are picking up video recorders to share our dearest with the planet.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 8/11/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Travels with Buck

Like John Steinbeck, this osprey wanted to see America

In between migrations most osprey are homebodies. Conventional wisdom holds that male osprey almost always return to the vicinity of their nests to breed.
Not every osprey is conventional.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Margaret Tearman - 8/4/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Political Animals

Endangered species squeeze through DC's budget war

Off limits to some members of Congress in the contentious budget war that’s been raging in Washington.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 7/28/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Beating the...

Whether mammals sweat or pant, heat gets us all down

You’re not the only species suffering in this summer’s dog days. Farm animals overheat much the same way you do, according to the Maryland Farm Bureau.
So Maryland farmers get creative to keep their charges cool.
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Article - Creature Feature; by Margaret Tearman - 7/21/11

This Week’s Creature Feature ... Skeeter Season

After an active spring, the native mosquito populations
are naturally declining. But not the Asian tiger mosquito.

A rainy March and April kept mosquito slappers busy.
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