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birds in six counties: Emmet (Wilderness State Park), Charlevoix <br />(High Island), Leelanau (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore), <br />Alger (Grand Marais), Chippewa (Vermillion Station and Weather <br />Hog area), and Luce (Deer Park) (E. Pike, Michigan Department of <br />Natural Resources). Other Great Lakes Piping Plover activity is <br />restricted to a 1986 sighting at a Cleveland, Ohio confined waste <br />disposal site and a 1984 nest record for Sandy Pond (Oswego <br />County) on Lake Ontario, New York (Petersen, in press). Recent <br />surveys in Indiana did not result in discovery of any Piping <br />Plovers (Cable 1987). <br />Gulf of Mexico: The complete winter distribution of Piping <br />Plovers remains to be determined, yet specific U.S. Gulf of <br />Mexico and Atlantic coast sites are becoming better recognized <br />for their importance to nonbreeding birds (Haig and Oring 1985, <br />Haig 1987b). Band returns indicate that most inland Piping <br />Plovers winter along the Gulf of Mexico, although a few inland <br />birds have been sighted wintering on the Atlantic Coast (Haig <br />1987a). Unless otherwise specified, winter sites discussed below <br />are currently used by Piping Plovers and have been verified for <br />ten years or more by CBC's. All known Gulf of Mexico sites were <br />censused from 1983 -85 (Haig and Oring 1985, Haig 1987b). <br />Piping Plovers use Texas beaches and sandflats along the <br />entire Gulf coast from Brownsville to Sea Rim State Park. <br />Concentrations are found in the following counties: Jefferson, <br />Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda, Calhoun, Aransas, <br />Nueces, San Patricio, Kleberg, Willacy, and Cameron. <br />15 <br />