Along the edge of Alder Pond, a cattail marsh provides good wildlife habitat.
This is true for the deserts of Arizona, for the cattail marshes of Cape Cod or for the river valleys of Chile.
The cattail marshes and small ponds along the lake shore here are an important stopover location for migrating waterfowl, including large numbers of Tundra Swans.
Big Muskego Lake is fringed with cattail-dominated wetlands and encompasses numerous islands of cattail marsh.
The path loops north to the bay overlook, passing an acre of cattail marsh, now rare on Fire Island.
It contains the largest remaining freshwater marsh on the middle Charles River, and includes a boardwalk through a cattail marsh out onto an island.
With water and a cattail marsh, it promises to be his best duck-hunting property.
Freshwater wetlands include cattail marsh, bog, emergent scrub-shrub wetlands, pocket swamps, red maple swamps and floodplain forest.
To the north is an expanse of cattail marshes.
By mid-to-late March, she said, these birds have staked out their territories, using such tactics as parking themselves "on the highest cattail in a cattail marsh."