Beach

The 1½ mile Pajaro Dunes beach provides a home for many creatures. The tangles of seaweed washed ashore by the tide serve up a banquet of tiny sea life for foraging seabirds and shorebirds. The Marbled Godwit probes the sand and kelp wrack to feed on amphipods like beach hoppers and sand crabs. Western Sandpipers thrive mainly on insects, mollusks and small crustaceans. Willets forage along the shore for insects, crustaceans and marine worms. Sanderlings pick in sand and mud for insects, beach invertebrates and bits of plants. Western Sandpipers thrive mainly on insects, mollusks and small crustaceans. The endangered Western Snowy Plover eats insects and other beach invertebrates.