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Florida’s Important Bird Areas
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Audubon's Important Bird Areas (IBA) program is a response to continuing habitat loss in Florida, and its subsequent reduction of the state's birdlife. The IBA program will assist decision makers in identifying areas most important for maintaining bird populations by protecting the habitats of rare species, as well as "keeping common birds common." In addition, the IBA program provides essential information for state land management agencies to properly manage habitats for birds, including the use of prescribed fire and limiting human intrusion during the nesting season.
Through the end of 2001, Audubon of Florida sought nominations of sites as potential IBAs from Audubon members, land managers and other biologists, birders, and individuals throughout the state. All sites nominated have met the criteria of at least one of four categories and has been reviewed by a committee composed of some of the state's leading ornithologists and conservation biologists.
Explore the manuscript below to see the Important Bird Area designations we have made so far!
The entire manuscript can be downloaded as a single PDF file entire_ms.pdf (1.6 MB), or the manuscript can be downloaded in sections:
intro.pdf (329 KB)
western_panhandle.pdf (119 KB)
eastern_panhandle.pdf (140 KB)
northern_peninsula.pdf (236 KB)
central_peninsula.pdf (557 KB)
southern_peninsula.pdf (246 KB)
keys.pdf (94 KB)
outro.pdf (157 KB)
Maps:
Western Panhandle
Eastern Panhandle
Northern Peninsula
Central Peninsula
Southern Peninsula
Florida Keys
Click here for a list of accepted IBAs, and here for the National IBA Program’s homepage.
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