Bird Conservation > Important Bird Areas >

Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

3. Black Rail

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
AZ	Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
AZ	Imperial Reservoir	State	NB
AZ	Mittry Lake Wildlife Area	State	NB
CA	Benicia SRA	State	B
CA	Concord Marshes	State	B
CA	Corte Madera Marsh	State	B
CA	Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta	State	B
CA	San Francisco Bay-South	State	NB
CA	San Pablo Bay Wetlands	State	B
CA	Suisun Marsh	State	B
CA	Tomales Bay	State	B
FL	Chassahowitzka-Weekiwachee	State	B
FL	Greater Apalachicola Bay	State	B
FL	St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
GA	Altamaha Waterfowl Management Area	State	B
MD	Blackwater-Fishing Bay Marshes	Global	B
SC	Bear Island Wildlife Management Area	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)*
CA	Bodega Harbor	State
CA	Bolinas Lagoon	State
CA	Consumnes River Preserve	State
CA	Eastshore Wetlands	State
CA	Imperial Valley	State
CA	Lower Colorado River Valley	State
CA	Morro Bay	State
CA	Pt. Reyes-Outer	State
CA	Richardson Bay	State
CA	Salton Sea	State
CT	Barn Island Wildlife Management Area	Global
CT	East River Marsh Complex	Global
DE	Delaware Coastal Zone	State
FL	Big Bend Ecosystem	State
FL	Coastal Pasco	State
FL	Crystal River Tidal Marshes	State
FL	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	State
IL	Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area	State
IN	Kankakee Sands Project and surrounding natural areas	State
MD	Parker's Creek	State
MO	Iatan / Weston River Corridor	State
MO	St. Louis Urban Oases	State
NC	Cedar Island Marshes	State
NE	Rainwater Basin	State
NY	Captree Island Vicinity	State
NY	Perch River Complex	State
SC	ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge--Edisto Unit	State
SC	Santee Coastal Reserve	State
SC	Santee National Wildlife Refuge	State
VA	Chesapeake Bay Islands	State
* Priority applies to site, not necessarily for criteria met by focal species

See Map of Important Bird Areas for this Species

Select Another Species

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.

See Sites Information

Neotropical Migrant IBAs Home

Last Updated 6 February 2007