USFWS National Digital Library

- Piping Plover adult
- Birds; Birdwatching; Wildlife refuges; Scenics; Shorebirds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) adult at Little Beach, NJ, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR
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- Forsythe intern testing water quality
- Wildlife refuges; Employees (USFWS); Volunteers; Scenics; Coastal environments;
- Edwin B. Forsythe intern testing the water quality at Little Beach, NJ.
- Images
- Purple Sandpipers
- Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Coastal environments;
- purple sandpipers (C. maritima) sitting on the rocks at Holgate Beach, NJ
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- View at Holgate
- Wildlife refuges; Coastal environments; Water management; Signs;
- View of the coastline from Holgate Beach, NJ
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- Newly hatched piping plover chicks
- Shorebirds; Endangered species; Wildlife refuges; Coastal environments;
- Newly hatched Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) chicks at Holgate Beach, NJ.
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- Piping Plover chick
- Endangered species; Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Birds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) chick on Holgate Beach, NJ
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- Piping Plover adult
- Endangered species; Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Birds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) adult on Holgate Beach, NJ
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- Piping Plover adult and chicks
- Endangered species; Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Birds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) adult and chicks on Holgate Beach, NJ
- Images
- Piping Plover adult and chick
- Endangered species; Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Birds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) adult and chick on Holgate Beach, NJ
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- Piping Plover chick
- Endangered species; Shorebirds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Birds;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) chick on Holgate Beach, NJ
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- Least Tern eggs
- birds; Environmental education; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Shorebirds; Coastal environments;
- Least Tern (Sternula antillarum, formerly Sterna antillarum) on Holgate Beach, New Jersey
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- Piping Plover chick by the shore
- birds; Wildlife refuges; Wildlife viewing; Shorebirds; Coastal environments; Endangered species;
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) chick by the shore at Holgate Beach, New Jersey
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- American oystercatcher
- Shorebirds; Waterfowl;
- A banded American oystercatcher taken at Whitney Beach on Longboat Key in Florida.
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- WO2958 Black Sand Beach
- Aquatic environments; Wetlands;Wetlands;
- Beach;Beaches
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- Japanese Glass Floats on Bering Sea Beach
- Wildlife refuges; Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Fishing; Alaska
- Images
- Sand dune
- scenics; Grasses; Work of the Service; Wildlife refuges;
- Lying along a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and Mobile Bay, the six units of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge consists of varied coastal habitat including changing sand dunes. Here one can find such interesting species as the...
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- Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
- Virginia; beach; dune stabilization; Wildlife refuges
- Chincoteague NWR, Chincoteague, Virginia: Best known for the annual wild pony round-ups immortalized in Marguerite Henry's children's book Misty of Chincoteague, Chincoteague Refuge is equally important for its role as a home for endangered...
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- Chamisso Island sand spit
- Coastal environments; Grasses; Wildlife refuges;
- Sandy beach area with view of water and grasses in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. NOTE: Chukchi Sea Unit.
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- St. Paul and Zolotoi Beach, Pribilofs
- AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Bering Sea Unit; Scenics; Coastal environments; Alaska
- Photo taken 1995
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- Homer Seaweek at Bishops Beach
- AMNWR; Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge; Scenics; Environmental education; Homer; Alaska; Intertidal
- Photo taken 1999
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