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Blue Heron Bridge (Phil Foster Park)

Southeast Floridashore

Coordinates 26.78439, -80.04286 (from Wikidata Q49542058, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point.

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What you might see, by month

Counts of species records within about 1 km of this point, from GBIF.org, filtered to CC0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses only (land animals and birds excluded). These come from survey effort, so more records do not mean more animals. They are not a sighting forecast. 14,482 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 1,499 records
Feb 906 records
Mar 1,447 records
Apr 1,797 records
May 997 records
Jun 958 records
Jul 1,229 records
Aug 1,191 records
Sep 813 records
Oct 739 records
Nov 1,341 records
Dec 1,368 records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. seaweed blenny (Parablennius marmoreus) (231)
  2. rosy blenny (Malacoctenus macropus) (96)
  3. roughhead blenny (Acanthemblemaria aspera) (91)
  4. Flabellina dushia (86)
  5. spotted moray (Gymnothorax moringa) (76)
  6. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (75)
  7. Sharpnose Puffer (Canthigaster rostrata) (68)
  8. porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus) (66)
  9. queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) (66)
  10. spotted scorpionfish (Scorpaena plumieri) (65)
  11. high-hat (Pareques acuminatus) (65)
  12. Grey Angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) (64)
  13. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (62)
  14. Doto torrelavega (59)
  15. striated frogfish (Antennarius striatus) (58)
  16. Masquerader Hairy Blenny (Labrisomus conditus) (56)
  17. Octopus americanus (56)
  18. giant hermit (Petrochirus diogenes) (53)
  19. flamefish (Apogon maculatus) (52)
  20. Bandtail Puffer (Sphoeroides spengleri) (49)

Reef heat stress: Southeast Florida region

NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km regional virtual station Southeast Florida. This covers the whole region, not this exact site. Latest value at build time (2026-10-12):

Bleaching alert level (7-day max)Bleaching Watch
Degree Heating Weeks11.7871 °C-weeks
SST range29.11–30.12 °C

Values refresh from NOAA when the page loads. Source: NOAA CRW virtual station: Southeast Florida (data, method). Credit: NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Conditions links

Depths, entry details and mooring info aren't listed yet because we haven't verified them from a citable source.

Data citation

GBIF.org (2026-10-14) GBIF Occurrence Data, queried via the GBIF API: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?decimalLatitude=26.774389999999997,26.79439&decimalLongitude=-80.05286000000001,-80.03286&license=CC0_1_0&license=CC_BY_4_0&taxonKey=44&taxonKey=206&taxonKey=229&taxonKey=136&taxonKey=225&occurrenceStatus=PRESENT&limit=0. Records by license: CC_BY_4_0: 13,658, CC0_1_0: 824. Contributing datasets (top 15):