This is a presentation by Charlie Speller about estuaries

1. BY Charlie Speller Gr.6

2.  Green Darners are
one of our largest
dragonflies, and one
of the easiest to
recognize.
Their body grows over 3
inches long and has a
wing span of 4 ½ inches.
Also Green Darners are
dimorphic which means
the male and females
look different.

3.  The Damselfly is Their front and
talented enough to back wings
tuck their wings onto move at
their back, but they different times
cannot walk. so they can
stop and
change
direction in air
as well as flying
up to 30 miles
an hour.

4. An adult Red – breasted
Merganser is about 51–62
cm (20–24 in) long, also
there wing span is 70–86 cm
(28–34 in) long.
A Red- breasted Merganser are a species of
bird that have a spiky crest and a long thin
bill, the Red Breasted Merganser is found in
large lakes and in the ocean. The Red
Breasted Merganser seems to like salt water
to fresh water more then the other species
of mergansers.

5. The Grey Plover, A.K.A
the Black-bellied Plover
lives in North America.
The Black plovers are
long distance migrants
Black plovers are the which mean when
largest species of Black Plovers migrate
plovers in North for winter they fly far far
America. away.

6.  The River Otter have special glands to
mark their territory, also the River Otter
eats on
fish, amphibians, snakes, insects, frogs, a
nd turtles.

7. Since seals do not
migrate in some places
they are around all
year. The snout is blunt
and because harbor Males grow to be
seals spend so much about 1.4 to 2.0 m
time underwater its long and 70 to 170
nostrils adapted to shut. kg.
So now they have V- Woman grow to be
shaped nostrils! about 1.2 to 1.7 m
and 50 to 150 kg.

8. Estuarine Crocodiles
can be found in a lot
of different habitats
like rivers, estuaries,
creeks, swamps,
lagoons and
billabongs.
During the cooler months in the northern
territory of Australia, crocodiles are
sometimes seen sun bathing on open mud

9.  Mostof the
animals in an
estuary live in
the sea, but
quite a lot of
the animals in
an estuary live
on land.

10.  Candiru’s are a kind of fish in
Brazilian estuaries and river’s ( Amazon
River )
 They are very dangerous fish they
measure length wise to be 40cm long
(16 inches).
 Candiru’s have been known to attack
people when they are urinating.
 Candiru’s like the warmth of your urine so
they climb up your penis and can cause
very serious damage.

11. Native Little Necked
are found from the
Little neck clams Aleatian islands to
have separate Baja California even
sexes. They mature though they are
at between 22 to usually a lot of them
33mm or 2-3 years only north of Oregon.
of age.

12. Hermit Crabs have
been heard
making croaking Hermit crabs return to
noises people are the sea to lay their
still trying to figure eggs. Due to that
out if croaking is a they can not breed in
kind of homes or animal
communication shelters, they need to
be near the sea.

13. The Hooded
Nudibranch can
grow up to be 10
cm long, 2.5cm
The Hooded Nudibranch
wide and 5cm
is a carnivore. Once they
across the hood.
feel their prey the edges
When the hooded
of the tentacles overlap,
Nudibranch is
which then holds the
pulled out of
prey and pushes it into
water it gives off a
the mouth.
sweet fruity smell.

14. Purple Shore Crabs can
be found under rocks,
they can be found on
the west cost of North
America from Alaska to
Baja in Mexico.
This crab eats sea lettuce and other green
algae and occasionally they eat dead
animals.

15. Skeleton Shrimps
A.K.A Ghost Shrimp
or Caprellidae are a
type of shrimp.
Mating: Mating only Skeleton Shrimp are
occurs when the easy to recognize
female is between due to their slender
the new and like body.
hardened
exoskeleton.

16. Henricia leviuscula A.K.A Blood Starfish or
Blood Star is a species of starfish found
along the pacific coast of North America.
Blood Starfish are usually identified by there
bright orange-red colour.
Blood Stars usually get to
be about 8cm in diameter
and rarely gets over 12cm

17. Macoma nasuta A.K.A
The Bent- nosed Clam or
The Bent-nose Macoma
is often found buried in
sand about 10-20 cm
high. The bent nose
clam is commonly
mistaken for Macoma
Tersa or Macoma
Kelseyi

18.  I hope you enjoyed my presentation and
thank you for every body that watched.
And also a special thanks to
Google, Wikipedia and other
web sites for giving me
information about all the
animals I chose.