Tag: Tidy Island
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White Pelicans on Tidy Island, back for the winter!
White Pelicans return to Tidy Island every year. Some winter visitors returning to Tidy Island by air are finding it difficult because of COVID-19. But, for American White Pelicans, this is not problem. A few show up early in October with large flocks appearing a few weeks later. They don’t like people very much. So,…
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Tidy Island salt flats: unique ecology from a hurricane.
What caused the Tidy Island salt flats? The surge from the 1921 Tampa Bay Hurricane caused the salt flats on Tidy Island. It carried sand from the south shore over the island, depositing it between the island and the mainland, as explained here. But salt flats need to be an exact distance above sea level.…