Important Bird Areas
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Petit Bois Island
Gulf Shores National Seashore is a combination of four previously identified IBA?s (Petit Bois, East Ship, West Ship, and Horn islands). The close proximity and similarities in habitat and bird use among these IBA?s necessitated combining into one easily identifiable IBA.
Birds in This Area
Bald Eagle
Latin: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Osprey
Latin: Pandion haliaetus
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