Photo credits
All 18 photographs on this site come from Wikimedia Commons and are either in the public domain (U.S. government works), released to the public domain (CC0), or licensed under Creative Commons. Each was resized and converted to WebP for fast loading; no other changes were made. Where a photo was taken outside Florida, its caption says so. Photos of renourishment show projects in Virginia because we couldn't find a suitable openly licensed photo of a Florida project.
| Photo | Author | License | Original | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sunrise at Satellite Beach, Florida | Michael Seeley | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Atlantic mole crab on a Long Island, NY beach | Jinkster1313 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Emerita talpoida (YPM IZ 085053), preserved specimen | Eric A. Lazo-Wasem / Yale Peabody Museum | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Sanderling on a Florida beach | Lemic302 | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Willet on a Florida beach | patriciafarrell89 | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Ruddy turnstone, Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, NY | Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Piping plover, Smyrna Dunes Park, Florida | Andrea Westmoreland | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Rufa red knot, Delaware Bay, New Jersey | Chuck Homler / Focus On Wildlife | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Laughing gull, Daytona Beach, Florida | VJAnderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) | geosesarma (iNaturalist) | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Southern kingfish (Menticirrhus americanus), Patos Lagoon, Brazil | Cláudio D. Timm | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) | Raver Duane, USFWS | Public domain (U.S. government work) | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) | George Harrison, USFWS | Public domain (U.S. government work) | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Coquina (Donax variabilis), Barefoot Beach, Collier County, Florida | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Sandbridge Beach renourishment, Virginia | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Public domain (U.S. government work) | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Virginia Beach renourishment, Virginia | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Public domain (U.S. government work) | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Man fishing on a beach in Naples, Florida | Stephen James Hall | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Siesta Key Beach, Sarasota, Florida | 4net | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
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