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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

13. Snowy Plover

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
CA	Big Sur Area	State	NB
CA	Camp Pendleton	State	B
CA	Channel Islands-Northern	State	B
CA	Del Norte Coast	State	NB
CA	Elkhorn Slough	State	B
CA	Goleta Coast	State	NB
CA	Goose Lake, Modoc Co.	State	B
CA	Honey Lake Valley	State	B
CA	Humboldt Bay	State	B
CA	Mendocino Coast	State	B, NB
CA	Mission Bay	State	NB
CA	Mono Lake Basin	State	B
CA	Morro Bay	State	B
CA	North Mojave Dry Lakes	State	B
CA	North San Diego Lagoons	State	B
CA	Owens Lake	State	B
CA	Pt. Mugu Area	State	B
CA	Pt. Reyes-Outer	State	B
CA	Salton Sea	State	B
CA	San Clemente Island	State	NB
CA	San Francisco Bay-South	State	NB
CA	Santa Maria River Valley	State	B
CA	Surprise Valley	State	B
CA	Tijuana River Reserve	State	B, NB
CA	Tulare Lake Bed	State	B
CA	Vandenberg AFB	State	B
CO	Adobe Creek Reservoir	State	B
CO	Blanca Wetlands	State	B
CO	Great Plains Reservoir System	State	B
FL	Bay County Beaches	State	B
FL	Big Marco Pass Shoal	State	NB
FL	Cayo Costa-Pine Island	State	B
FL	Dog Island-Lanark Reef	State	B
FL	Eglin Air Force Base	Global	B
FL	Greater Apalachicola Bay	State	B
FL	Gulf Islands GEOPark	Global	NB
FL	Gulf Islands National Seashore and Adjacent Areas	State	B
FL	Little Estero Lagoon	State	NB
FL	North Lido Beach- Palmer Point	State	B
FL	Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve	State	NB
FL	St. Joseph Bay	State	B
FL	Walton County Beaches	State	B, NB
ID	American Falls Reservoir	State	P
MS	Gulf Islands National Seashore	State	B
NE	North Platte River Valley	State	B
NM	Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
NV	Gridley Lake	State	B
NV	Lahontan Valley Wetlands	State	B
NV	Walker Lake	State	B
OR	Summer Lake	State	B
UT	Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
UT	Gilbert Bay/South Arm	State	B
UT	Gunnison Bay/North Arm	State	B
WA	Damon Point/ Oyhut	State	B
WA	Ledbetter Point	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)*
AZ	Anderson Mesa	State
AZ	Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge	State
CA	Adobe Valley	State
CA	Bodega Harbor	State
CA	Crowley Lake Area	State
CA	Deep Springs Valley	State
CA	Edwards Air Force Base	State
CA	Goose Lake, Kern Co.	State
CA	Orange Coast Wetlands	State
CA	Salinas River-Lower	State
CA	San Diego Bay	State
CA	San Joaquin River NWR Area	State
CA	San Pablo Bay Wetlands	State
CA	Shoshone-Tecopa Area	State
CA	Southern Orange County	State
CA	Tomales Bay	State
CO	Fruitgrowers Reservoir	State
CO	John Martin Reservoir State Wildlife Area	State
FL	Citrus County Spoil Islands	State
FL	Clearwater Harbor-St. Joseph Sound	State
FL	Lower Tampa Bay	Global
NM	Holloman Lakes	State
NM	Laguna Grande Complex	State
OR	Sutton Beach	State
WA	Sand and Gunpowder Islands	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