Marsh Wren, PRBO photo 

Tidal marsh is a unique type of wetland habitat found around bodies of salt water that supports a unique community of plants and animals, filters toxins in the water, acts as a sponge-like buffer for flooding, and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere.

Unfortunately this habitat faces many challenges.  

About 95% has been lost to development around the SF Bay and the remaining amount faces threat from development and submersion from climate-change induced sea level rise. 

Since the mid-1990's PRBO has been and continues to work to protect and restore this valuable habitat around the Bay.  Click here to view news coverage of a recent PRBO study.

Explore more of our work in this critical habitat by clicking on the links below.

Contact: Julian Wood, jwood@prbo.org

Tidal Marsh Songbird Monitoring 

Tracking Secretive Marsh Birds

San Francisco Bay Sea Level Rise Tool

State of the Birds, San Francisco Bay 2011

California Avian Data Center

Reports, Papers, References