Presents from the Sea - January 2009
From Our Padre Island Beach Walks
Good Links for Beachcombers:
- Seabeans ... From Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Seabeans ... From Seabean.Com... all about seabeans ...very good but webpage not always working
- Seashell Collector ... good pictures of live seashells ...
especially check out links SeaShell Galleries, and Hunting Seashells
Best Books ... so far:
- The Seaside Naturalist, A Guide to Study at the Seashore; Doborah A. Coulombe; University of New Hampshire, 1992
The sea, tides, phytoplankton and
zooplankton, coral, sponges, worms, mollusks, shells, crabs, urchins, saltwater fish, seabirds, etc
- Between Pacific Tides; F Rickets, Jack Calvin, and Joel W. Hedgepeth; Stanford University Press, 1939, 1948, 1952, 1962, 1968, 1985
The interaction of various species that live in different habitats ... rocky, grass flats, sand flats, mud plats, exposed beach, etc.; high tide areas, surf level,
and sub tidal
- Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies; Peterson Field Guides;R. Tucker Abbott, Percy A. Morris, University of New Hampshire,
1947, 1951, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1995
Fairly good descriptions of habitat (though not as good as I would like) and a good field identification guide
