Exploring the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail and the Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System will immerse you in a varied natural ecosystem surrounded by native plants and animals. Below is a list of field guides that can be printed and/or referred to as you explore.
Native Birds of the Chesapeake
- http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/birds.cfm
- http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/chesapeake_life.html
- http://www.baygateways.net/waterfowl_map.cfm
Underwater and Wetland Plants
- http://www.chesapeakebay.net/baygras.htm
- http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/sav/key
- http://www.vims.edu/bio/sav
- http://www.earthscape.org/t1/cbf01/cbf01.pdf


