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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

1. American-Golden Plover

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P, U)*
AK	Mendenhall Wetlands	State	P
AK	Norton Bay	State	P
AK	Stebbins-St. Michael	State	B
CT	Milford Point/Wheeler Marsh/Mouth of the Housatonic River	State	P
ID	American Falls Reservoir	State	P
IN	American Golden-Plover Staging Grounds	State	P
IN	Kankakee Sands Project and surrounding natural areas	State	P
IN	Pine Creek/Robert Feldt Marsh	State	P
MA	Sudbury/ Concord River Valley	State	P
PA	Green Lane Reservoir	State	P
* Priority applies to site, not necessarily for criteria met by focal species * SEASONAL IMPORTANCE: B=breeding, NB=non-breeding, P=passage, U=unknown

Additional IBAs: Species rare, present in relatively low abundances, or insufficient data to determine seasonal importance.

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*
AK	Andreafsky Wilderness	Global
AK	Central Yukon-Kuskokwim	Global
AK	Izembek-Moffet Lagoons	Global
AK	Kuskokwim River Delta	Global
AK	Shishmaref Inlet	State
CT	Hammonasset Beach State Park	Global
CT	Menunketesuck and Duck Islands and surrounding tidal flats	State
CT	Sandy Point	State
CT	Stratford Great Meadows Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge	State
ID	Mann Lake	State
MA	Wachusett Reservoir	State
MD	Hart-Miller Island	State
MO	Great Rivers Confluence	State
NY	Allegany Forest Tract	State
NY	Chazy Landing/Kings Bay Area	State
NY	Great South Bay	State
NY	Montezuma Wetlands Complex	State
* Priority applies to site, not necessarily for criteria met by focal species

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For general information about the Important Bird Areas Program, see http://www.audubon.org/bird/iba/. To search the IBA Search tool for information on additional Important Bird Areas throughout the country, click here.

This project has been possible thanks to the generous support of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Grant of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Last Updated 30 January 2007