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Important Bird Areas for the Conservation of Focal Waterbird Species:

18. Yellow Rail

State	Important Bird Area	Priority (Criteria Met)*	Seasonal Importance (B,NB,P,R,U)*
CA	Surprise Valley	State	B
CA	Tomales Bay	State	NB
GA	Altamaha Waterfowl Management Area	State	B
MN	Kittson-Roseau Aspen Parkland IBA	State	B
MN	McGregor IBA	State	B
OR	Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge	State	B
WI	Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area	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)*
AR	Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge	State
CA	San Francisco Bay-South	State
CA	Suisun Marsh	State
FL	Apalachicola River and Forests	Global
IL	Prairie Ridge State Natural Area - Jasper and Marion Units	State
MS	Hancock County Marsh Coastal Preserve	State
MS	Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge	State
VA	Back Bay	State
WY	Flat Creek Marshes and Wetland Complex	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