Beginning the Blue Trail BioBlitz

Welcome to the Blue Trail BioBlitz! Over the next month, we hope you will join us in documenting species throughout the Waccamaw River watershed. We want to see every living thing you can find from your backyard to the river! Share your observations of trees, birds, fish, insects, and anything else you may spot!

Every week during the 2021 Waccamaw Conference, we will be featuring two spotlight species. We will be posting journal entries about the species, where they live, how they live, and what is so special about them. If you can spot all ten spotlight species, you will be entered to win an award for being our Spotlight Species Spotter!

Our ten featured spotlight species are:

1. Alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides)
2. Redbay (Persea borbonia)
3. Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis)
4. Pine warbler (Setophaga pinus)
5. Eastern river cooter (Pseudemys concinna concinna) OR Yellow- bellied slider (Trachemys scripta scripta)
6. Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
7. Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
8. Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus)
9. Atlantic marsh fiddler crab (Minuca pugnax)
10. Spartina (Sporobolus alterniflorus)

We will also be featuring some extra special bonus species during our journey down the Waccamaw. We hope you will join us on this adventure and help us make the Blue Trail BioBlitz a huge success!

Julkaistu maaliskuu 21, 2021 11:35 IP. käyttäjältä waccamaw_riverkeeper