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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

15. Whimbrel

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
AK	Nelson Lagoon-Mud Bay	Global Continental	P
AK	Norton Bay	State	P
AK	Nushagak Bay	Global	B
AK	Yukon River Delta	Pending Global	B
CA	Imperial Valley	State	P
CA	Lower Colorado River Valley	State	P
FL	Alachua Lakes	State	P
FL	Gulf Islands GEOPark	Global	NB
MA	Monomoy and South Beach NWR	State	P
MD	Assateague Island	Global	B
MD	Hart-Miller Island	State	P
VA	Barrier Island/Lagoon System	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	Carter Bay	Global Continental
AK	Central Seward Peninsula	Global
AK	Central Yukon-Kuskokwim	Global
AK	Goodnews Bay	Global Continental
AK	Izembek-Moffet Lagoons	Global
AK	Kuskokwim River Delta	Global
AK	Kvichak Bay	State
AK	Stebbins-St. Michael	State
CT	East River Marsh Complex	Global
CT	Hammonasset Beach State Park	Global
CT	Menunketesuck and Duck Islands and surrounding tidal flats	State
CT	Milford Point/Wheeler Marsh/Mouth of the Housatonic River	State
CT	Sandy Point	State
CT	Stratford Great Meadows Unit of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge	State
MA	Allens Pond and Westport River Watershed	State
MA	Eastern Point/ Gloucester Harbor	State
MA	Rockport Headlands and Inshore Waters	State
NM	Ruby Ranch	State
NY	Chazy Landing/Kings Bay Area	State
NY	Great South Bay	State
SC	Morse Creek Inlet/Bay Point Island	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