1. 2M’s Guide to Long Island Sound Creatures
May 2016

2. Bluefish Lives in shallow water It’s color is more green than blue
It eats squid, crabs and butter fish
It has sharp teeth
By Aston

3. Osprey Lives near a water shore
They are black and brown on top and white- black underneath
Black beak
Eat 99% fish
Small hooks on toes to grab fish
Good hunters
by Bridget

4. Horseshoe Crab It lives on the sand and water
It has 2 main eyes and a mouth at the bottom of the shell
Eats worms, bivalves and other bottom dwelling creatures
The name is somewhat misleading- Because it’s in the spider family
By Cooper
Horseshoe Crab

5. Sea Star They eat oysters, clams and scallops
It looks like a star and it can be all different colors
They have an eye at end of each ray
They live in shallow water
By Gray

6. Lions Mane Jelly It floats near the surface in offshore waters
It has very long tentacles
Its clear and a pinkish orange
It eats zooplankton, fish eggs, small shrimp, occasionally other developing jellies
The lions mane jelly’s predators are: sea turtles, sunfish, and some sea birds
By Madeline

7. Heron Live in ponds, marshes and swamps They also live along coasts
Tall bird with wide wings and a long neck with a bill
Eats fish and frogs and small animals
There are 60 species of herons
By Harry

8. Dog Fish Shark It lives in a pack of fish in the water
It looks like a dog/fish
It’s thin, and long
It’s brown or olive on top and white on the bottom
It eats a lot of fish
Its enemies are people and big sharks
By Izzy

9. Flounder It lives at the bottom of the ocean It looks like a flat fish
It eats small fish
There are five different flounder in oceans
One of the five different flounder is called a Japanese flounder
Camouflage
By Jacob

10. MOON JELLY Lives near top of ocean It is see through 16 inches wide
Eats small plankton, fish eggs, sometimes other jellyfish
Has 4 horseshoe shaped organs inside
By Jada

11. Scallop It lives at the sea bottom on underwater sea beds.
It has two hard gray shells attached by a hinge.
Scallops eat plankton.
Sea Stars and crabs eat scallops.
Scallops use jet propulsion.
By Jasper

12. Gulls Live near the shore It is white and gray Gulls eat fish
It has wings
They even eat garbage
By Johnathan

13. Lobster
Lives in crevices or burrows in rocky reefs and muddy bottom habitats.
It is greenish-brownish, has a wide tail, large claws, eight legs.
It eats fish, mollusks and other crustaceans scavenged on or near the bottom.
One of their predators are people with bowls of melted butter.
In “extreme cases” they can be up to forty pounds and three feet long.
by Lauren

14. Harbor Seal Lives in Long Island Sound
They have whiskers, flippers, tail and fluffy fur
They eat fish, crab, lobster and squid.
Some can be very fluffy and white or they can have polka dots.
By Lexy

15. Hermit crab
Lives in: sandy & other bottom habitats in depths up to 150 feet
Looks like: it can be many different colors.
It eats: detritus & algae
Interesting facts: When his shell is too small for him he borrows another animal’s shell.
By Lily

16. Lions Mane Jelly It floats near the surface in offshore waters
It has very long tentacles
Its clear and a pinkish orange
It eats zooplankton, fish eggs, small shrimp, occasionally other developing jellies
The lions mane jelly’s predators are: sea turtles, sunfish, and some sea birds
By Madeline

17. Fiddler crab
Eat things like dead plants and animal bits, and algae, that are in the mud
Dig burrows in mud
Live from Cape Cod to northern Florida on mud flats in marshes
It has 8 legs, it’s red and brown or green-brown
Males have a really big claw
Males have a blue spot on top of them in the center
By Mary

18. Osprey It lives near a river
Its head is white and its back is black and brown
It dives in the water to get fish
Their nests are really big
By Sloane

19. Oyster Most of the time they have barnacles on them
They are gray and bumpy
Their predators are horseshoe crabs,
other crabs, seagulls, and some fish
3. They are filter feeders- that means they clean the water.
4.They eat plankton in the salt water
5. They live in salt marshes or attached to something under the water, like docks.
By Thomas

20. Spider Crab
Lives in bottom habitats in shallow and relatively deep water
It’s brown to dull yellow with white claws
It has a small round and spiny body with pointy beak and long thin legs ending in prinsers of equal size and shape
It eats dead fish and sometimes even sea stars
By Tobin