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ESTUARINE AND MARINE WATERS
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Roseate Spoonbill
© Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences
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Estuarine and Marine Waters:
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Native Fauna: Birds
- Estuarine and marine habitats provide habitat and nesting areas for many birds
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This habitat is home to wading and probing shorebirds, oceanic birds, and diving birds. The roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), reddish egret (Egretta refescens), double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), and black-crowned night heron (Botaurus lentiginosus) are all known to nest within the habitats surrounding Florida Bay.
Great Blue Heron
© H. Vannoy Davis, California Academy of Sciences
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Snowy Egret
courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Other birds commonly observed include:
Black-necked Stilt
© Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences
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Shoreline birds include the willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), Wilson's plover (Charadrius wilsonia), and the black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus).
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