Fish: stays inn energy from ocean estuary to river vertebrate, long time. gills, fins Coastlines Ave/Bird Old Carnivorous raptor Threatened Powerful wings Feathers, shoreline Talons ¼ eaglets Can swim wings, trees for Fish 90% diet survive Wingspan is 7 roasting National Symbol Humans: feet and Owls prey on poaching Excellent nesting eaglets Power lines eyesight vertebrate Eyries are Crows harass Need old Color vision Bald Adults: white heavy. Crows, squirrels growth Talons/curved Eagle head/tail, Need raccoons go after trees beak brown body, strong nestlings 1960s large yellow tree curved bill Juvenile: blotchy white patches Not bald “Gooey” Duck 100 Longest living up to HUMANS Foot that digs Largest million 100 years + Harvested them into mud burrowing adults Not many predators Hard to dig; Stay entire life intertidal clam packed Sedentary excavate Wedge deep Weigh up 8 lbs into mud Filter water quality Delicacy in Neck: siphon long Geoduck Bivalve mollusks 3 feet Asia to get food Cannot close deep inside shell abundant Long neck/siphon Primary At and Food for Structures Tolerate salt producer below the invertebrate like docks water Perennial low tide Epiphytes grow on prevent Lives in range of Blooming line the surface and sunlight temperatures underwater Up to 6m crustaceans and Dredging Anchored to mud plant of water young salmon eat it destroys Horizontal stems Eel Not Estuaries, Shelter eelgrass move with Grass seaweed/not Tidal Prevents erosion Sediment currents and grass Flats and from waves and from waves Base of food Protected current streams Grows in chain Clear Protection for small prevent submerged water Colonies water organisms from sunlight Blooms Muddy predators Pollution
Fish: vertebrate, gills, fins stays inn estuary long time. Coastlines energy from ocean to river Bald Eagle Ave/Bird Feathers, wings, vertebrate Adults: white head/tail, brown body, large yellow curved bill Juvenile: blotchy white patches Not bald Old shoreline trees for roasting and nesting Eyries are heavy. Need strong tree Carnivorous raptor Talons Fish 90% diet National Symbol Owls prey on eaglets Crows harass Crows, squirrels raccoons go after nestlings Threatened ¼ eaglets survive Humans: poaching Power lines Need old growth trees 1960s Powerful wings Can swim Wingspan is 7 feet Excellent eyesight Color vision Talons/curved beak Geoduck “Gooey” Duck Largest burrowing intertidal clam Weigh up 8 lbs Bivalve mollusks Cannot close inside shell Long neck/siphon 100 million adults packed into mud 3 feet deep abundant Longest living up to 100 years + Not many predators Sedentary Filter water quality HUMANS Harvested Hard to dig; excavate Delicacy in Asia Foot that digs them into mud Stay entire life Wedge deep Neck: siphon long to get food Eel Grass Primary producer Perennial Blooming underwater plant Not seaweed/not grass Base of food chain Colonies Blooms At and below the low tide line Up to 6m of water Estuaries, Tidal Flats and Protected Clear water Muddy Food for invertebrate Epiphytes grow on the surface and crustaceans and young salmon eat it Shelter Prevents erosion from waves and current Protection for small organisms from predators Structures like docks prevent sunlight Dredging destroys eelgrass Sediment from streams prevent sunlight Pollution Tolerate salt water Lives in range of temperatures Anchored to mud Horizontal stems move with currents and waves Grows in submerged water