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Waquoit Bay Reserve, Massachusetts
Fauna (Animal Life) Waquoit Bay provides food, shelter, spawning and nursery grounds for numerous fish and shell fish species. About 30 species Commercially harvested spend part of their lives in or visit Waquoit Bay estuarine waters. Of note are eel, flounder, trout, herring, bluefish, striped bass, scallops, clams and blue crabs. Fox, deer, raccoons as well as owls, ospreys, herons (Great Blue, Night Crowned, Green), Canada Goose, Mute Swans and several ducks are found in the Reserve.
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