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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

9. Piping Plover

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
CO	Great Plains Reservoir System	State	B
CT	Hammonasset Beach State Park	Global	B
CT	Milford Point/Wheeler Marsh/Mouth of the Housatonic River	State	B
CT	Sandy Point	State	B
CT	Stratford Great Meadows Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
FL	Bay County Beaches	State	NB
FL	Big Marco Pass Shoal	State	NB
FL	Dog Island-Lanark Reef	State	NB
FL	Fort George and Talbot Islands	State	NB
FL	Greater Apalachicola Bay	State	NB
FL	Gulf Islands GEOPark	Global	NB
FL	Huguenot Park-Nassau Sound	State	NB
FL	Key West National Wildlife Refuge	State	NB
FL	Little Estero Lagoon	State	NB
FL	Lower Tampa Bay	Global	NB
FL	St. Joseph Bay	State	NB
GA	Altamaha River Delta	State	NB
IA	Mid-American Energy Plant, Council Bluffs	State	B
IA	Port Neal Fly Ash Ponds	State	B
MA	Allens Pond and Westport River Watershed	State	B
MA	Chappaquidick Island	State	B
MA	Dead Neck and Sampson's Island	State	B
MA	Ellisville Harbor	State	B
MA	Great Salt Marsh	State	B
MA	Kalmus Beach Park	State	B
MA	Monomoy and South Beach NWR	State	B
MA	North River Mouth and Corridor	State	B
MA	Outer Cape Cod (Cape Cod National Seashore)	State	B
MA	Plymouth and Duxbury Bays	State	B
MA	Sandwich Beaches	State	B
MA	Sandy Neck	State	B
MA	Yarmouth Beaches	State	B
MD	Assateague Island	Global	B
MS	Gulf Islands National Seashore	State	NB
NC	Cape Hatteras National Seashore	Global	P
NC	Cape Lookout National Seashore	State	B P NB
NC	Carrot Island/ Bird Shoal	State	NB
NC	New Dump Island	State	P
NC	Oregon Inlet Shoals	State	P NB
NE	Missouri National Recreational River	State	B
NE	North Platte River Valley	State	B
NE	Ponca State Park	State	B
NY	Accabonac Harbor	State	B
NY	Captree Island Vicinity	State	B
NY	Crane Neck to Misery Point	State	B
NY	Fire Island (East of Lighthouse)	State	B
NY	Huntington and Northport Bays	State	B
NY	Jamaica Bay	Global	B
NY	Mecox Sagaponack Coastal Dunes	State	B
NY	Moriches Bay	State	B
NY	Napeague Harbor and Beach	State	B
NY	Nissequague River Watershed and Smithtown Bay	State	B
NY	Northwest Harbor/Shelter Island Complex	State	B
NY	Orient Point and Plum Island	State	B
NY	Peconic Bays and Flanders Bay	State	B
NY	Shinnecock Bay	State	B
NY	West Hempstead Bay/Jones Beach West	State	B
SC	Deveaux Bank	State	NB
VA	Barrier Island/Lagoon System	State	B
* 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)*
AR	Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge	State
AR	Charlie Craig State Fish Hatchery	State
CO	Adobe Creek Reservoir	State
CO	John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area	State
CO	Pueblo Reservoir State Park and State Wildlife Area and Valco State Wildlife Area	State
CT	Menunketesuck and Duck Islands and surrounding tidal flats	State
CT	Salt Meadow Unit of Stewart B. McKinney NWR	State
DE	Delaware Coastal Zone	State
FL	Big Bend Ecosystem	State
FL	Gulf Islands National Seashore and Adjacent Areas	State
IA	Coralville Reservoir/Hawkeye Wildlife Area/Lake McBride State Park	State
IA	Green Island Wildlife Area	State
IA	Red Rock Reservoir	State
IA	Saylorville Reservoir	State
IN	Cane Ridge Wildlife Management Area and Gibson Lake	State
MA	West Dennis Beach	State
NC	Lea-Hutaff Islands	State
NC	Masonboro Island	State
NC	Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge	Global
NY	Connetquot Estuary	State
NY	Gardiner's Island	State
NY	Great Gull Island	State
NY	Great South Bay	State
NY	Little Neck Bay to Hempstead Harbor	State
NY	Montauk Point	State
NY	Oyster Bay Area	State
OH	C.J. Brown	State
SC	Bird Key Stono	State
SC	Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge	State
SC	Santee Coastal Reserve	State
* Priority applies to site, not necessarily for criteria met by focal species

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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