Great Marsh
Conservation interest: emergent marsh, open water.
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Conservation Issues
Encroachment of urban and suburban development.
Habitat
Largest and most biologically diverse inland freshwater marsh in eastern Pennsylvania.
Land Use
The Edward Woolman Nature Preserve protects 943 acres of Great Marsh.
Birds in This Area
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
European Starling
Sturnus vulgaris
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Wood Thrush
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Brown Thrasher
- Great Blue Heron
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Canada Goose
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Carolina Chickadee
- Great Horned Owl
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Carolina Wren
- Green Heron
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Cedar Waxwing
- Green-winged Teal
- Rusty Blackbird
- Chipping Sparrow
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Short-eared Owl
- Common Nighthawk
- House Wren
- Sora
- American Bittern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Least Bittern
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Pine Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Swamp Sparrow
- American Black Duck
- Cooper's Hawk
- Mallard
- Tree Swallow
- American Coot
- Dickcissel
- Marsh Wren
- Tufted Titmouse
- American Crow
- Downy Woodpecker
- Mourning Dove
- Turkey Vulture
- American Robin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Northern Flicker
- Virginia Rail
- Barn Swallow
- Eastern Phoebe
- Northern Mockingbird
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Belted Kingfisher
- Eastern Towhee
- Palm Warbler
- Wood Duck
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