One of our critical functions is environmental monitoring and protection. The Sebastian Inlet District routinely works with marine scientists to conduct biological monitoring of the critically important habitats surrounding the inlet that support a broad range of different species. This page is dedicated to the marine life and wildlife that inlet supports.
Birds of Sebastian Inlet
Sebastian Inlet is a Great Florida Birding Trail site, so keep a camera or a pair of binoculars handy. Birders have listed more than 190 bird species, according to our partners at Sebastian Inlet State Park. A bird list and map is available at the ranger station. All photos taken at Sebastian Inlet by District staff.
Black skimmer (Rynchops niger)
Black skimmer (Rynchops niger)
Brown pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis)
Common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
Great egret (Ardea alba)
Great egret (Ardea Alba)
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis)
Royal Tern in winter plumage (Thalasseus maximus)
Royal Tern in winter plumage (Thalasseus maximus)
Sanderling (Calidris Alba)
Snowy egret (Egretta thula)
White ibis (juvenile) (Eudocimus albus)
Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
Willet (Tringa semipalmata) in flight
Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
Our Living World
Our newest addition, a burgeoning photo carousel of the plants, animals and marine life that call Sebastian Inlet home.
African redhead agama (invasive) (Agama picticauda)
Beach sunflower (Helianthus debilis)
Bottle-nose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Brahiminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus)
Cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris)
Green sea turtle swims east through Sebastian Inlet to the Atlantic Ocean
Johnson's seagrass (Halophila johnsonii)
Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
Mangrove skipper on sea grape
Marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris)
Mixed seagrasses ( Halodule wrightii) and Johnson's seagrass (Halophila johnsonii)
Orange-ridged sea star (Echinaster spinulosus)
Pelicans gathered on an oyster reef on the flood shoal side of Sebastian Inlet.
Pistol shrimp (Alpheus)
Portuguese Man-O-Wars on the beach south of the inlet.
Luidia senegalensis, the nine-armed sea star, is commonly found on the flood shoal side of Sebastian Inlet
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