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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

12. Short-billed Dowitcher

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
AK	Anchorage Coastal	Continental	P
AK	Cinder River-Hook Lagoon	Global	U
AK	Mendenhall Wetlands	State	P
AK	Nelson Lagoon-Mud Bay	Global Continental	U
AR	Charlie Craig State Fish Hatchery	State	P
CT	Milford Point/Wheeler Marsh/Mouth of the Housatonic River	State	P
CT	Stratford Great Meadows Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge	State	P
DE	Delaware Coastal Zone	State	P
FL	J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge	State	NB
IN	Kankakee Sands Project and surrounding natural areas	State	P
MA	Belle Isle Marsh	State	P
MA	Great Salt Marsh	State	P
MA	Monomoy and South Beach NWR	State	P
MA	Nahant - Nahant Bay	State	P
MD	Hart-Miller Island	State	P
NC	Cape Lookout National Seashore	State	P
NC	Eagle Island	State	P
NC	Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge	Global	NB
NY	Chazy Landing/Kings Bay Area	State	P
NY	Jamaica Bay	Global	P
NY	West Hempstead Bay/Jones Beach West	State	P
OR	Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge	State	P
SC	Donnelly Wildlife Management Area	State	NB
SC	Morse Creek Inlet/Bay Point Island	State	NB
SC	Savannah River Disposal Site	State	NB
VA	Barrier Island/Lagoon System	State	P
WA	Bottle Beach	State	P
WA	Willapa River Estuary	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	Nushagak Bay	Global
AK	Seal Islands	Global
AK	Stebbins-St. Michael	State
AK	Ugashik Bay	Global
CT	East River Marsh Complex	Global
CT	Hammonasset Beach State Park	Global
CT	Menunketesuck and Duck Islands and surrounding tidal flats	State
CT	Salt Meadow Unit of Stewart B. McKinney NWR	State
CT	Sandy Point	State
MA	Allens Pond and Westport River Watershed	State
MA	Chappaquidick Island	State
MA	Eastern Point/ Gloucester Harbor	State
MA	Rockport Headlands and Inshore Waters	State
NY	Allegany Forest Tract	State
NY	Constitution Marsh Sanctuary	State
NY	Eastern Lake Ontario Barrier Beaches	State
NY	Fort Drum	State
NY	Great South Bay	State
NY	Montezuma Wetlands Complex	State
NY	Prospect Park	State
UT	Deseret Land and Livestock Ranch	State
VT	Delta Park IBA	State
VT	Herricks Cove IBA	State
WI	Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area	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