Striped dolphin is normally a warm-water, deep-pelagic species well offshore of the mid-Atlantic coast, so Maryland’s handful of records near Patapsco Valley and local river corridors almost certainly reflect stranded or displaced animals rather than a resident inshore population. NatureServe carries no ranked status for the species in Maryland.
The few sightings cluster in February, too thin and irregular a pattern to read as any real seasonal signal for a species this far outside its typical range in state waters.
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