Animals and Wildlife

• Horseshoe-Crab Taggers Undaunted by Downpours
  While you were snug and warm in your beds on a few recent rainy nights, a few hardy dedicated souls were out doing the wet sandy chilly soggy work of science. All in the name...
  Written by Maritime Aquarium on June 11, 2013 | Read More
• The Cicadas Return, but Not Everywhere
  Tag sale-ing took on a new atmosphere while traveling through Southington and Meriden the second weekend in June. In addition to scurrying through treasures strewed about on lawns...
  Written by Chuck Miceli on June 11, 2013 | Read More
• Time to Egg On the Snapping Turtle in Your Yard
  It’s that time of year when you might find a snapping turtle in your garden. Behold, the turtle that time forgot. If other freshwater turtles species received “modernizing”...
  Written by Maritime Aquarium on May 31, 2013 | Read More
• WXedge Contributor Featured on CT Style
  I was honored to be invited to participate in WTNH's Connecticut Style Magazine today.  The show will air on Tuesday at 12:30 PM.  Featured with me are two of our bird ambassadors 
  Written by Patrick Comins on May 24, 2013 | Read More
• Share the Shore, Watch for Rare Birds
  Weather might not be great this weekend, but if you do go to the beach please be mindful of the birds.  Memorial Day Weekend is a vulnerable time for beach nesting birds....
  Written by Patrick Comins on May 24, 2013 | Read More
• Super Rare Bird Sighted
  Details are sketchy at this time, but I was forwarded the above photo by biologist Kevin Rogers of the US Fish and Wildlife Rhode National Wildlife Refuge Complex.  It is...
  Written by Patrick Comins on May 23, 2013 | Read More
• Rare Birds and Great Diversity Evident in Big Weekend
  The big weekend is over and the tallying is nearing completion.  Last weekend Audubon Connecticut staff and volunteers and birders fanned out across the state to see...
  Written by Patrick Comins on May 22, 2013 | Read More
• Cousteau Still Holds Hope & Passion for the Oceans
  We welcomed Jean-Michel Cousteau to The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk last night, and his insights into the state of the oceans were, at times, sobering but also, at times, inspiring. But,...
  Written by Maritime Aquarium on May 21, 2013 | Read More
• The Comb Jelly Story Becomes More Tangled
  Evolutionary biologists were thrown for a loop recently, all because of one of the most common jellies we have here in Long Island Sound. At the center of all the fuss are comb...
  Written by Maritime Aquarium on May 17, 2013 | Read More

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