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 | GGC_0366_pan |
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 | GGC_0369_pan |
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 | ruddy turnstones |
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 | flock of ruddy turnstones |
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 | ruddy turnstone |
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 | two ruddy turnstones |
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 | willet |
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 | ring-billed gull |
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 | willet |
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 | willet |
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 | Laughting Gull - non-breeding |
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 | willet |
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 | sanderling |
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 | laughing gulls |
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 | white pelican |
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| ruddy turnstone |
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 | sea birds |
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 | flock of ruddy turnstones |
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 | willet catching sand flea |
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 | willet |
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 | willet with sand flea |
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 | black skimmer |
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 | black-necked stillt |
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 | ring-billed gull |
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 | GGC_0366 |
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 | Laughting Gull - non-breeding |
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 | black skimmer |
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 | sanderling |
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 | black skimmer |
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| willet with sand flea |
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 | sanderlings |
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 | sanderlings |
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 | Ruddy Turnstone |
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 | Ruddy Turnstone |
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 | sanderlings |
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 | sanderling |
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 | GGC_0155 |
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| ring-billed gull |
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 | GGC_0369 |
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 | herring gull |
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 | GGC_0479 |
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 | GGC_0462 |
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 | GGC_0506 |
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| sanderling |
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 | Jupiter Lighthouse |
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 | sanderling |
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 | black skimmer |
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 | ring-billed gull |
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 | ring-billed gull |
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 | ruddy turnstones |
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 | ruddy turnstones |
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 | sanderling |
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 | sanderling |
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 | sanderlling |
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 | royal tern |
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 | royal tern |
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 | royal tern |
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Shore Birds Sea Birds
Shorebirds, are small to medium size waders characterized by slender, probing bills and longish legs. They include the sandpipers, plovers, jacanids, snipes, curlews, lapwings, godwits, ruffs, dowitchers, avocets, thick-knees, coursers and stilts. They are not simply birds found at the shore, but are the families of plovers, sandpipers and related forms that are part of the order Charadriiformes. Most of these birds can be found along shorelines, especially in migration, but they are also found inland, upland, on arctic tundra or at sea. They are related to gulls, terns and auks, also Charadriiformes.
There are several species of shorebirds that nest along the beaches of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida. With so many different species identification of these birds is rather difficult. Many of these birds have different markings with plumage variation by season and age.
