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inland habitat at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Al_ <br />since at least 1955. Other records from Alabama indicate wii <br />use of coastal areas in Baldwin and Mobile counties (Howell <br />Imhoff 1975). <br />Florida is one of the few states where Piping Plovers winter <br />that has experienced loss of wintering Piping Plovers from entire 00 <br />counties over the past 50 years. Numerous museum records and <br />CBC's indicate Piping Plovers regularly wintered in the following <br />counties: Bay, Brevard, Broward, Collier, Dade, Duval, Franklin, <br />Gulf, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Monroe, Nassau, Orange, <br />Pinellas, St. John's, St. Lucie, Sarasota, Volusia, and Wakulla. <br />There is no evidence to suggest that birds still use winter sites <br />in Broward, Indian River, Nassau, and Orange counties. <br />Current Distribution <br />Northern Great Plains: Currently, the most westerly <br />breeding Piping Plovers in the U.S. occur in Montana on sandflats <br />above the west end of Fort Peck Dam (Valley County), on the <br />shorelines of the Big Dry Arm of Fort Peck Reservoir (Garfield <br />and McCone counties), and on the saline wetlands near Dagmar and <br />Wildlife Refuge Count <br />Medicine Lake National Wil Sheridan g ( Y)• <br />In North Dakota, Piping Plovers breed in 25 counties along <br />the Missouri River and on alkali wetlands in the central region <br />of the state (R. Kreil, North Dakota Game and Fish Department). <br />_ 9 <br />- 12 - <br />