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Many species of birds live in the varied habitats of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The South Jetty area includes beach, marsh, and coastal wetlands where the tundra swan, marsh wren, Canada goose, yellow-rumped warbler, red-tailed hawk, sanderling, long-billed curlew, dunlin, and least sandpiper make their home.
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Warren Dunes State Park is a 1,500-acre (610 ha) public recreation area located along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Berrien County, Michigan. [2] The state park's large sand dunes and lakeshore beaches make it one of the most popular of Michigan's state parks with an average of about one million visitors annually.
Ridge and swale, or in dunal areas dune and swale, is a landform consisting of regular, parallel ridges alternating with marshy depressions. [1] Ridge-and-swale landscapes are most commonly formed by the gradual movement of a beach , for example as a result of gradually fluctuating water levels, or the shifting meanders of a river.
The Dune-iverse began in 1965 with Frank Herbert’s famous novel, which introduces a fictional universe in the distant future wherein a young man travels to a dangerous desert planet to save his ...
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes is the largest remaining dune system south of San Francisco and the second largest in the U.S. state of California. [1] It encompasses an 18-mile (29 km) stretch of coastline on the Central Coast of California and extends from southern San Luis Obispo County to northern Santa Barbara County.
Cupsogue Beach County Park is a 296-acre (1.20 km 2) park at the eastern end of Fire Island and the western end of Westhampton Island, [1] known locally as Dune Road, one of Long Island's easternmost barrier islands. The Atlantic Ocean, Moriches Inlet and Moriches Bay surround the park.
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