The Important Bird Areas of Florida - National Audubon Society

The Important Bird Areas of Florida: 2000–2002 – Pranty – 2-Jul-02 5IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS IN FLORIDA .............................................................................................Central Peninsula (continued)...............................................................................................................Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge ..................................................................................... 192St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge ............................................................................................. 194St. Sebastian River State Buffer Preserve.................................................................................... 196Sarasota and Roberts Bays........................................................................................................... 198Starkey Wilderness ...................................................................................................................... 200Turkey Creek Sanctuary .............................................................................................................. 202Upper St. Johns River Basin ........................................................................................................ 203Volusia County Colony Islands ................................................................................................... 205Wekiva–Ocala Greenway ............................................................................................................ 206Wekiwa Basin GEOpark.............................................................................................................. 208William Beardall Tosohatchee State Reserve.............................................................................. 210Withlacoochee–Panasoffkee–Big Scrub...................................................................................... 211Withlacoochee State Forest.......................................................................................................... 213Southern Peninsula........................................................................................................................... 214ABC Islands................................................................................................................................. 215Babcock–Webb Ecosystem.......................................................................................................... 216Big Cypress Swamp Watershed................................................................................................... 218Big Marco Pass Shoal .................................................................................................................. 221Biscayne Bay ............................................................................................................................... 222Corkscrew Swamp Watershed ..................................................................................................... 225Everglades National Park............................................................................................................. 227Fisheating Creek Watershed ........................................................................................................ 230J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge............................................................................ 231Lake Okeechobee......................................................................................................................... 232Little Estero Lagoon .................................................................................................................... 234Loxahatchee River and Slough .................................................................................................... 238Northern Everglades .................................................................................................................... 240Pine Island National Wildlife Refuge .......................................................................................... 243Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve ................................................................... 244Sanibel Lighthouse Park .............................................................................................................. 247Southern Atlantic Migrant Stopover............................................................................................ 248Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge......................................................................... 250Florida Keys...................................................................................................................................... 252Dry Tortugas National Park......................................................................................................... 253Florida Keys Hammocks.............................................................................................................. 255Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge ............................................................................. 258Key West National Wildlife Refuge ............................................................................................ 259Pelican Shoal................................................................................................................................ 261APPENDIX 1: Sites not accepted as IBAs............................................................................................ 262APPENDIX 2: Non-IBA public lands greater than 10,000 acres (4000 ha) in size........................... 264APPENDIX 3: English and Latin names of species mentioned in the text ........................................ 266Plants .................................................................................................................................................. 266Non-avian animals.............................................................................................................................. 269Birds ................................................................................................................................................... 270LITERATURE CITED .......................................................................................................................... 275