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STATE: CALIFORNIA

#	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)
1	Adobe Valley	State
2	Alameda Naval Air Station	State
3	Benicia SRA	State
4	Big Sur Area	State
5	Big Valley/ Ash Creek	State
6	Bodega Harbor	State
7	Bolinas Lagoon	State
8	Bolsa de San Felipe	State
9	Buena Vista Lake Bed	State
10	Byron Area	State
11	Camp Pendleton	State
12	Carrizo Plain	State
13	Channel Islands-Northern	State
14	Concord Marshes	State
15	Consumnes River Preserve	State
16	Corte Madera Marsh	State
17	Creighton Ranch Area	State
18	Crowley Lake Area	State
19	Cuyama Valley	State
20	Deep Springs Valley	State
21	Del Norte Coast	State
22	Eastshore Wetlands	State
23	Edwards Air Force Base	State
24	Elkhorn Slough	State
25	Fall River Valley Area	State
26	Goleta Coast	State
27	Goose Lake, Kern Co.	State
28	Goose Lake, Modoc Co.	State
29	Grasslands Ecological Area	State
30	Honey Lake Valley	State
31	Humboldt Bay	State
32	Imperial Valley	State
33	Jepson Grasslands	State
34	Kern NWR Area	State
35	Klamath Basin/ Clear Lake	State
36	LaGrange-Waterford Grasslands	State
37	Lancaster	State
38	Lone Willow Slough	State
39	Lower Colorado River Valley	State
40	Mendocino Coast	State
41	Mendota Wildlife Area	State
42	Merced Grasslands	State
43	Mission Bay	State
44	Modoc National Wildlife Refuge	State
45	Modoc Plateau	State
46	Mono Lake Basin	State
47	Morro Bay	State
48	North Mojave Dry Lakes	State
49	North San Diego Lagoons	State
50	Orange Coast Wetlands	State
51	Owens Lake	State
52	Panoche Valley	State
53	Pixley NWR Area	State
54	Pt. Mugu Area	State
55	Pt. Reyes-Outer	State
56	Richardson Bay	State
57	Sacramento Valley Wetlands	State
58	Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta	State
59	Salinas River-Lower	State
60	Salton Sea	State
61	San Clemente Island	State
62	San Diego Bay	State
63	San Francisco Bay-South	State
64	San Jacinto Valley	State
65	San Joaquin River NWR Area	State
66	San Pablo Bay Wetlands	State
67	Santa Ana River Valley	State
68	Santa Maria River Valley	State
69	Shoshone-Tecopa Area	State
70	Sierra Valley	State
71	Southern Orange County	State
72	Stone Lakes NWR Area	State
73	Suisun Marsh	State
74	Surprise Valley	State
75	Tijuana River Reserve	State
76	Tomales Bay	State
77	Topaz Lake Area	State
78	Tulare Lake Bed	State
79	Vandenberg AFB	State
80	Yolo Bypass Area	State

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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 23 January 2007