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The Mendenhall Wetlands,The Bird Area Recognized a Globally Important Birds Come to Mendenhall Wetlands from Many Places The Mendenhall Wetlands, a globally recognized Important a globally recognized Bird Area The Mendenhall Wetlands, Birds come to Mendenhall Wetlands from many places Bald Eagle Rock Sandpiper (resident) (breeds in western and northern Alaska) Lesser Black-backed Gull (vagrant from Asia) Armstrong • Trumpeter Swan (winters in Lower 48) Pectoral Sandpiper Carstensen • Willson Hermans Osborn (winters in South America) Robert H. Armstrong • Richard L. Carstensen • Mary F. Willson • Marge Hermans Osborn $12.00 9 781578 3 34438 7 21925 1 1052 9 Arctic Tern (winters in Antarctica) Robert H. Armstrong Richard L. Carstensen Mary F. Willson Marge Hermans Osborn Acknowledgements We are especially grateful to Jim King for allowing us to excerpt from his book Attending Alaska’s Birds information on the establishment of the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge. Jim also reviewed the entire book and provided several insights on the Wetlands. Others that reviewed the book and provided useful comments included Rich Gordon, Matt Kirchhoff, Paul Suchanek, and Mark Schwan. Paul Suchanek graciously provided us with his bird database for the Wetlands that included more than 15,000 entries on the numbers of birds by species. Rich Gordon gave us his notes on bird abundance by species that included information he had gathered on the Wetlands for over 40 years. Pauline Strong produced the monthly summaries of this data on pages 33-40. Patty Rose and Gus van Vliet reviewed the phenology chart and made several useful corrections. Rich Gordon and Steve Zimmerman helped prepare the application for the establish- ment of the Wetlands as an Important Bird Area. This designation was the seed that grew into this book. We also thank Matt Knutson of InterDesign for his help with design issues and pre-press work. Diane Mayer, the executive director of Southeast Alaska Land Trust, helped obtain the funding needed to print this book. Her help, and the board of trustees for SEALTrust, were instrumental in making this book a reality. Text © 2009 - Robert H. Armstrong, Richard ISBN: 9781578334438 L. Carstensen, Mary F. Willson, Marge Hermans Osborn; Illustrations © Richard Printed by Samhwa Printing Co., Ltd., L. Carstensen; Photographs © Robert H. Seoul, Korea Armstrong except as noted. First printing, May 2009 Published by: Nature Alaska Images 5870 Thane Road Juneau, AK 99801 (907) 586-6811 Cover: Surfbird feeding amongst the mussel beds. 2 Barrow AP-09 AP-10 Beaufort Sea AP-08 AP-11 AP-13 Teshekpuk Lake AP-14 Prudhoe Bay AP-16 Chukchi Sea AP-07 AP-15 IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS AP-06 AP-05 AP-12 of AP-04 e ang AP-02 s R Brook ALASKA AP-03 AP-01 W-58 Kotzebue NI-23 W-56 AI-38 W-54 Yukon River W-55 W-57 AI-37 W-53 W-52 NI-22 AI-36 NI-21 W-48 Fairbanks Nome W-51 W-49 W-50 AI-35 Norton Sound nge W-47 Ra St. Lawrence Island ska Ala W-46 NI-20 W-45 NI-19 AI-34 W-44 NI-18 W-43 Y W-42 uk NI-05 on Ri ver NI-17 AI-33 NI-15 NI-14 NI-16 NI-04 Anchorage NI-13 Bering Sea NI-12 NP-07 Bethel NI-03 Cordova W-41 NI-11 NP-08 AI-32 NI-02 NP-09 NI-10 NP-14 NP-06 NP-10 W-40 NP-11 NI-09 NP-15 NI-01 NI-06 NP-12 NP-16 NP-03 NI-08 Juneau Homer NP-13 W-39 NP-02 NP-05 NP-17 NI-07 NP-04 W-38 Iliamna Lake NP-18 W-36 W-23 W-37 W-24 W-22 Dillingham NP-01 W-35 W-29 W-34 W-31 W-21 Gulf of Alaska W-32 W-30 W-27 W-25 W-28 NP-21 Sitka W-33 W-20 NP-19 W-26 NP-20 AI-31 AI-01 Kodiak Bristol Bay W-16 W-18 W-19 AI-30 AI-03 W-15 W-17 Ketchikan AI-02 Kodiak W-12 Island W-11 AI-04 NP-22 W-10 W-13 W-06 A W-14 l e W-07 u W-09 AI-05 W-04 AI-06 t i W-05 Mendenhall a n I W-01 s W-02 W-03 AI-08 l a n W-08 d s Wetlands AI-07 AI-25 AI-29 AI-22 AI-28 AI-09 AI-24 AI-26 Unalaska AI-27 AI-12 AI-13 AI-10 AI-14 AI-11 AI-18 AI-17 AI-21 AI-23 AI-16 AI-19 AI-15 AI-20 Artwork by David Allen Sibley © 2008 Important Bird Areas of Alaska Alaska IBA Sites The Important Bird Area (“IBA”) Program is an international initiative to identify essential to Olga Romanenko, Emily Davies, Thomas Van Pelt, and Dr. Vivian Mendenhall for signifi cant These sites are organized in Bird Conservation Regions AI-13 Kasatochi Island AI-36 King Island W-19 Chiniak Bay W-42 Central Yukon-Kuskokwim AP-05 Cape Lisburne NI-10 Kenai River Flats NP-08 Copper River Delta habitat for birds. To qualify as an IBA, a site must regularly support signifi cant numbers of spe- contributions to this program. Original artwork was kindly provided by David Allen Sibley ©. (BCR), which are used across North America to group AI-14 Koniuji Island AI-37 Little Diomede Island & Fairway Rock W-20 Northwest Afognak Island W-43 Andreafsky Wilderness AP-06 Ledyard Bay, marine NI-11 Swanson Lakes NP-09 Icy Bay cies of conservation concern; attract large numbers of breeding, wintering, or migrating birds; Thanks also to Eric Cline of TerraGraphica for design and layout, and Sharon Rudolph of Encompass avian habitats. There are fi ve BCRs in Alaska. AI-15 Amlia Island AI-38 Bering Strait, marine W-21 Barren Islands W-44 Yukon River Delta AP-07 Kasegaluk Lagoon NI-12 Anchorage Coastal NP-10 Yakutat Bay or support species characteristic of a unique habitat. The IBA Program is coordinated around Data and Mapping for the base map. This project was managed by Dr. Iain J. Stenhouse, Director Bird Conservation Regions Key AI-16 Chagulak Island W-22 Cook Inlet, marine W-45 Mouth of Yukon River, marine AP-08 Peard Bay NI-13 Campbell Creek NP-11 Blacksand Spit AI-17 Kagamil Pass, marine BCR 2 Western Alaska W-23 Contact Point W-46 Stebbins-St. Michael AP-09 Elson Lagoon NI-14 Goose Bay NP-12 Glacier Bay the world by BirdLife International, and today more than 130 countries participate in this truly of Bird Conservation. Level of Signifi cance: Global AI-18 Kagamil Island W-01 Slime Bank Inner Front, marine W-24 Amakdedulia Cove W-47 East Norton Sound, marine AP-10 Cooper Island NI-15 Palmer Hay Flats NP-13 Gustavus Flats global effort. In the United States, the IBA Program is carried out by the National Audubon Support for this project came through a State Wildlife Grant from the Alaska Department of Continental AI-19 Ananiulak Island W-02 Urilia Bay W-25 Upper Naknek River W-48 Norton Bay AP-11 Teshekpuk Lake-E. Dease Inlet NI-16 Jim Creek Basin NP-14 Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Society. Audubon Alaska, the state offi ce of the National Audubon Society, began the work of AP Fish and Game. Additional support came from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for identifi ca- Arctic Plains State AI-20 Vsevidof Island W-03 Bechevin Bay W-26 Egegik Bay W-49 Golovin Lagoon AP-12 Lower Colville River NI-17 Sheep Mountain NP-15 Berners Bay identifying IBAs in Alaska in 2000. tion of IBAs in the Cook Inlet watershed. Support to identify IBAs in the Bering Sea ecoregion and Mountains Potential (likely but requires further assessment) AI-21 Emerald Island W-04 Amak Island W-27 Kvichak Bay W-50 Bluff Colonies AP-13 Colville River Delta NI-18 Iditarod River Lowlands NP-16 Mendenhall Wetlands Identifying and conserving IBAs is an ongoing effort. If you have new information about any came from The Grenold and Dorothy Collins Alaska Charitable Trust, National Park Service, AI-22 Bogoslof Island (& Fire Island) W-05 Izembek-Moffet Lagoons W-28 Nushagak Bay, marine W-51 Safety Sound AP-14 Eastern Beaufort Sea Lagoons & Barrier Islands NI-19 Alaska Range Foothills NP-17 Port Snettisham AI-23 Ogangen Island W-06 Nelson Lagoon-Mud Bay W-29 Nushagak Bay W-52 Central Seward Peninsula AP-15 Canning River Delta NI-20 Upper Tanana River Valley NP-18 Seymour Canal of the IBAs identifi ed on this map or other sites that may qualify as IBAs, please contact the Margery Nicolson, Gloria M. and Benjamin Olewine III, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and BCR 1 Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea NI AI-01 Attu Island AI-24 Baby Islands-Akutan Pass W-07 Port Moller-Herendeen Bay W-30 Walrus Islands W-53 Lopp Lagoon AP-16 Northeast Arctic Coastal Plain NI-21 Creamer’s Field NP-19 St. Lazaria Island Director of Bird Conservation at Audubon Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Audubon Alaska thanks all of these sponsors. Northwest AI-02 Agattu Island AI-25 Akutan Harbor W-08 Outer Shumagin Islands W-31 Cape Peirce W-54 Shishmaref Inlet NI-22 Yukon-Charley Rivers NP-20 Keku Strait-Rocky Pass Recognition of a site or area as an IBA is based on avian science. It has no legal standing, The National Audubon Society opened its Alaska State Offi ce in 1977.
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