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Pickles Reef

Florida Keysreef coral reef in the Florida Keys, US

Coordinates 24.9875, -80.41444 (from Wikidata Q7190917, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia

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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. 14,655 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 1 records
Feb 3 records
Mar 6 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 1 records
May 582 records
Jun 2,422 records
Jul 3,040 records
Aug 5,386 records
Sep 2,329 records
Oct 800 records
Nov 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 1 records
  • coffee bean trivia (Pusula pediculus) (1)

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (989)
  2. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (912)
  3. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (784)
  4. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (692)
  5. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (684)
  6. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (604)
  7. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (595)
  8. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (568)
  9. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (533)
  10. Haemulon plumierii (423)
  11. stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) (406)
  12. French grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) (402)
  13. Ocyurus chrysurus (388)
  14. Sergeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) (272)
  15. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (272)
  16. Haemulon sciurus (255)
  17. brown chromis (Chromis multilineata) (211)
  18. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (210)
  19. blue chromis (Chromis cyanea) (210)
  20. Princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus) (193)

Reef heat stress: Florida Keys region

NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km regional virtual station Florida Keys. 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 Weeks16.7671 °C-weeks
SST range29.73–30.58 °C

Values refresh from NOAA when the page loads. Source: NOAA CRW virtual station: Florida Keys (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=24.9775,24.997500000000002&decimalLongitude=-80.42444,-80.40444&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: CC0_1_0: 14,479, CC_BY_4_0: 176. Contributing datasets (top 15):