The Important Bird Areas of Florida - National Audubon Society

The Important Bird Areas of Florida: 2000–2002 – Pranty – 2-Jul-02 68LAND USE: Bird Island: *dredged-material disposal area, conservation. St. George Island Causeway:*transportation, conservation. St. George Island State Park: *conservation, *recreation. YentBayou: conservation (sovereign wetlands), recreation, residential (uplands)IBA CATEGORIES: Bird Island: significant populations of Special Concern and FCREPA species;significant numbers of shorebirds and larids. St. George Island Causeway: significant populations ofThreatened, Special Concern, FCREPA, and IBA species; significant numbers of larids. St. GeorgeIsland State Park: significant populations of Endangered, Threatened, and FCREPA species;significant numbers of Neotropical migrants; and significant natural habitats. Yent Bayou: significantpopulations of Threatened species.AVIAN DATA: The islands are regionally important for breeding and wintering shorebirds and forbreeding larids, while wooded portions of the state park are important for Neotropical migrants.Apalachicola Bird Island also supports breeding shorebirds. Bird diversity for all sites combined is____ native species. [I have bird lists for St. George and St. Vincent; are lists available for any of theother sites?]Apalachicola Bird Island:SPECIES DATE NUMBERS COMMENTSBrown Pelican 2001 269 pairs 3% (B)American Oystercatcher 11 Jul 1999 3 chicks