Web Sites (1 - 10 of 37): Estuaries

Texas State Aquarium's Kid's Page * - get cool facts about estuaries and the animals and plants that live there. Includes some fun activities for you to try at home. Did you know that estuaries help keep oceans healthy? Ever heard an estuary called a "nursery"? What animals and pl...
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Estuaries - Where Rivers Meet the Sea - An estuary is a partially enclosed body of water where incoming seawater is mixed with fresh water coming from the land. Examples of estuaries include bays, sounds, salt marshes, mangrove forests, mud flats, swamps, inlets, and sloughs.
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Florida Manatee * - Although recorded for the Carolinas, Georgia, and Texas, the manatee’s centre of abundance in the United States was Florida where it frequented streams and brackish estuaries and fed solely on vegetation. Early depletion of this aquatic mammal began
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Mobile Bay National Estuary Program * - learn the basics about estuaries, check out the EcoKids section, and learn about distinct habitats like wetlands, beaches and dunes, oyster reefs, and more.
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The Causes of Tides * - Twice daily the Pacific Ocean intrudes on the shoreline to flood its bays and estuaries. It inundates mud flats and marshes, raises water levels, and surges landward with sufficient force to reverse the seaward currents of rivers and creeks. Salt water mi...
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Florida Oceanographic Society - Florida's Marine Environment * - The Florida Oceanographic Society promotes the knowledge and understanding of Florida's Marine resources through education, public awareness and the support of scientific research.
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Estuarine Crocodile - The estuarine crocodile is one of the largest and most dangerous species and has been known to attack man. It is rapidly being exterminated since its hide is considered the most valuable of all crocodiles' for leather.
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Bonnethead Shark Fish Identification * - Description: broadly widened head in the shape of a shovel; only slight indentation of anal fin; front of head not notched at midline; gray or grayish-brown in color. Matures at about 3 feet in length and bears 6 to 12 young at one time; feeds chiefly on...
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Diamondback Terrapin - This terrapin is the only North American emydid adapted for life in brackish and salt water. It is a strong, fast-swimming turtle with large hind limbs. Females are bigger than males.
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White-collared Kingfisher - This widely distributed kingfisher is found in a variety of habitats but most commonly in mangrove swamps. Perching on branches, it watches for prey, then swoops down to the swamp mud or dives into the water in pursuit of crabs and small fish, its main fo...
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