Birds
Recognizing profiles, morphological characteristics, and characteristic behaviors and feeding techniques
What is Bird Identification
I am the official Florida state mammal
What is the Florida Manatee
The line of organic material deposited by high tides.
What is Beach Wrack?
These protect reptiles from salt intrusion.
What are scales or tough skin?
Name 3 important elements of Interpretation.
What are connecting with the audience, knowing your subject, and using props?
The three mangrove species native to Florida
What are red, black and white mangroves?
I have a recurved bill
What is an Avocet?
Two broad groupings of whales
What are Baleen whales and Toothed whales
The three types of coastal environments found in Florida.
What is Nearshore Marine, Coastal Uplands & Estuarine?
I am the only native tortoise in Florida.
What is the Gopher Tortoise?
The most important person in ethical relationships with the environment.
Who is me?
Two of Florida’s dominant salt marsh plants.
What is Smooth Cordgrass, Salt meadow Cordgrass, Black Needle Rush and Sawgrass?
I stand about 10 inches tall, was at one point one of the most abundant shorebirds in North America
What is the Red Knot
Hunts cooperatively and most abuntdently toothed whale in Florida
What are bottle nosed dolphins
The three distinct environment zones in the Coastal Uplands.
What is Beach and Foredune, Coastal Strand and Maritime Forest.
I am a deep diver and feed mostly on jelly fish.
What is the Leatherback Turtle?
Name 2 important guiding principles in environmentally responsible travel.
What is do not disturb wildlife or their habitats?
The three species of seagrasses that form meadows.
What is the Turtle Grass, Manatee Grass and Shoal Grass species?
Six shorebirds that nest in Florida
What is Snowy Plover, Wilson’s Plover, Killdeer, American Oystercatcher, Black-necked Stilt, and the Willet
Two types of pelagic dolphins
What are Atlantic Spotted Dolphins and Spinner Dolphins
The five major oceanic currents that occur in Florida waters.
What is the Gulf Stream, Caribbean Current, Loop Current, Florida Current and the Counter Current.
I am the only native frog tolerant of brackish water on Sanibel Island.
What are Leopard Frogs?
When is it ok to touch a live animal or bird?
What is when they are injured or need assistance?
The key adaptations that enable plants to grow successfully within the upper beach and foredune.
What are waxy, leathery or succulent leaves, deep sprawling root systems and salt tolerance(halophytic)?
I fly approximately 2,000 miles from the North Atlantic coast to the southern tip of South America without stopping
What is the semi-palmated sandpiper
Most Primitive Jawless Fish include
What are Hagfish and Lampreys
The four types of Maritime forests and their locations in Florida.
What is Coastal Hardwood hammock – NE Florida; Tropical Hardwood hammock – South Florida; Cabbage Palm hammock – West Florida; Slash Pine flatwoods – NW Florida
Some refer to me by the nickname “salty”.
What is the saltwater crocodile?
The greatest ethical challenge to coastal uplands.
What is overuse?
The 5 types of plants that grow abundantly in the beach and foredune zone.
What are Vines (Beach Morning Glory), Grasses(Sea Oats), Forbs(Dune Sunflower), Shrubs(Sea Grape) and Palms(Sabal/Cabbage Palm)?