http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:37:17 EDT http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Raritan%20Bay%20-%20Sandy%20Hook%20Bay%20Complex.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Raritan%20Bay%20-%20Sandy%20Hook%20Bay%20Complex.htmlRaritan Bay - Sandy Hook Bay is a large embayment measuring nine by twelve miles (109 square miles) with a surface area of about 28,000 hectares (69,188 acres).Sat, 6 Jan 2007 0:0:12 EST http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Marine%20Mammals%20and%20Sea%20Turtles.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Marine%20Mammals%20and%20Sea%20Turtles.htmlThe Bight has one of the highest diversities of marine mammals and sea turtles reported anywhere in the United States, and supports many threatened and endangered species.Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:57:27 EST http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Estuarine%20Fishes.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Estuarine%20Fishes.htmlThe richness of fish species in the New York Bight is due to a unique situation. The area is a transition zone where the northern cold water (boreal) species and the warm water (temperate) fauna meet, with both groups at the limits of their respective ranges.Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:52:51 EST http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Shorebirds.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Shorebirds.htmlThere are 30 species of migratory shorebirds, plovers, sandpipers, avocets, and oystercatchers, that regularly use marine and freshwater habitats and adjacent uplands in the New York Bight watershed for breeding, wintering, northward (spring) migration, or southward (autumn) migrationFri, 5 Jan 2007 23:50:21 EST http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Coastal%20Colonial%20Waterbirds.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Coastal%20Colonial%20Waterbirds.htmlColonial nesting marine birds and wading birds (waterbirds) are important and conspicuous components of coastal ecosystems in the United States. They represent several orders of waterbirds that share in common the trait of typically nesting in colonies, which most likely evolved as a defense against predators.Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:48:28 EST http://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Waterfowl.htmlhttp://www.bayshorewatershed.org/bw/Our%20Watershed/Bay%20Facts/Waterfowl.htmlThere are 32 native species of waterfowl that regularly use the estuarine, riverine, lacustrine, and palustrine wetlands and adjacent uplands in the New York Bight watershed as breeding, migrating, or overwintering birds. This does not include pelagic birds and sea ducks that, within the watershed study area, are found exclusively in the marine waters of the New York BightFri, 5 Jan 2007 23:38:35 EST