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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

2. American Oystercatcher

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P, U)*
CT	Greenwich Point Park and Nearby Islands	State	B
FL	Big Bend Ecosystem	State	NB
FL	Citrus County Spoil Islands	State	B
FL	Clearwater Harbor-St. Joseph Sound	State	B
FL	Dog Island-Lanark Reef	State	NB
FL	Gulf Islands GEOPark	Global	B, NB
FL	Hillsborough Bay	State	B
FL	Lower Tampa Bay	Global	B, NB
FL	Matanzas Inlet and River	State	NB
FL	Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	State	NB
FL	Volusia County Colony Islands	State	B
GA	Altamaha River Delta	State	NB, P
GA	Cumberland Island National Seashore	State	B
MA	Chappaquidick Island	State	B
MA	Monomoy and South Beach NWR	State	B, NB
MA	Ram Island	State	B
MD	Assateague Island	Global	B
MD	Central Chesapeake Islands	State	B
MD	Maryland Coastal Bays	State	B
NC	Bald Head/ Smith Island	State	NB
NC	Battery Island Audubon Sanctuary	Global	B
NC	Cape Hatteras National Seashore	Global	B
NC	Cape Lookout National Seashore	State	B
NC	Ferry Slip Island	State	B
NC	Lea-Hutaff Islands	State	B
NC	Masonboro Island	State	B
NC	Striking Island	State	B, NB
NY	Captree Island Vicinity	State	B
NY	Great South Bay	State	U
NY	Jamaica Bay	Global	B
NY	Orient Point and Plum Island	State	B
NY	Shinnecock Bay	State	B
NY	West Hempstead Bay/Jones Beach West	State	B
SC	Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge	State	B, NB
SC	Crab Bank	State	B
VA	Barrier Island/Lagoon System	State	B
VA	Chesapeake Bay Islands	State	B
VA	Delmarva Bayside Marshes	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)*
CT	East River Marsh Complex	Global
CT	Falkner Island Unit of Stewart B. McKinney NWR	State
CT	Great Captains Island	State
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
DE	Delaware Coastal Zone	State
FL	Cayo Costa-Pine Island	State
FL	Greater Apalachicola Bay	State
FL	Huguenot Park-Nassau Sound	State
FL	Johns Pass	State
GA	St. Catherines Island	State
MA	Allens Pond and Westport River Watershed	State
NC	Beacon Island Audubon Sanctuary	State
NC	Carrot Island/ Bird Shoal	State
NC	North Pelican Island	State
NC	South Pelican Island	State
NY	Connetquot Estuary	State
NY	Fire Island (East of Lighthouse)	State
NY	Great Gull Island	State
NY	Huntington and Northport Bays	State
NY	Little Neck Bay to Hempstead Harbor	State
NY	Nissequague River Watershed and Smithtown Bay	State
NY	Northwest Harbor/Shelter Island Complex	State
NY	Peconic Bays and Flanders Bay	State
SC	Bird Key Stono	State
SC	Deveaux Bank	State
SC	Morse Creek Inlet/Bay Point Island	State
SC	Santee Coastal Reserve	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