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Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Make plans to join us for a quintessential Cape Cod summer evening under the stars and help raise critical funding for Wellfleet Bay's conservation and education programs.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Any regular visitor to Wellfleet Bay has probably said "hello" to veteran front desk volunteer Shirley Weber. She's volunteered at the sanctuary for more than 20 years. "It's a chance to meet people from all over the world," she says.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellfleet Bay has been chosen as a beneficiary of the 2019 Seaside Le Mans race! This extraordinary opportunity will help expand our conservation science education programs to underserved children, strengthen existing school programs, and provide new learning opportunities at the sanctuary.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
After 36 years at the helm of Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Bob Prescott has announced his decision to retire. (Sort of.)
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Outer Cape school children—most of whom live within 15 minutes or less from a bay beach—are getting front row seats for what’s become a unique natural phenomenon that occurs practically in their own backyards.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Registration is now open for our Summer Camps in Wellfleet and Chatham! We’re looking forward to sunshine, summertime, and days filled with adventure in the great outdoors.
Wellfleet Bay’s bird banding operation hit a modest milestone last September, marking its fifth fall migration since it set up shop in fall of 2014. We realize that for bird monitoring 5 years is still very much a blink of an eye compared, say, to a period of 30 years. But in that relatively short […]
This post was contributed by volunteer Tim O’Brien who’s currently doing a study of eastern box turtles and works to conserve other threatened and endangered turtles. In 2018 we instituted a non-permanent paint dot marking system for the sanctuary’s eastern box turtles. Here’s why. There’s anecdotal evidence suggesting that repeated handling of box turtles over […]