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adults American bitterns animals aquatic areas arrive in Pennsylvania Bald eagles Bewick's wren BIOLOGY-NATURAL HISTORY bird Blanding's turtles bog turtle breeding ponds breeding season brown or black burrow caves color crevices dark brown decline eagles eastern mud salamander Eastern Mud Turtle eastern woodrat feed females found nesting grasses Green salamanders Henslow's sparrows IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS inches Indiana bat insects Jersey Chorus Frog King rails known lake sturgeon large rivers least bittern leave the nest leopard frog lower shell Males MANAGEMENT PRACTICES MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS marshes massasauga meadows midland smooth softshell monitored nest in Pennsylvania ospreys Pennsylvania Fish Commission pesticide pollution populations PREFERRED HABITAT protected by regulation range REASONS Red-Bellied Turtle Sand darters Sedge wrens shallow Short-eared owls Shortnose Sturgeon significant numbers small-footed myotis southern spawn spend the winters spots streams surveys tail Ted Walke threespine stickleback Tiger salamanders Upland sandpipers upper shell VIREO wetland wings wingspan yellow Young hatch