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<br />Imhoff 1975). <br /> <br /> <br />inland habitat at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama, <br /> <br /> <br />since at least 1955. Other records from Alabama indicate winter <br /> <br /> <br />use of coastal areas in Baldwin and Mobile counties (Howell 1928, <br /> <br />Florida is one of the few states where Piping Plovers winter <br />that has experienced loss of wintering Piping plovers from entire <br />counties over the past 50 years. Numerous museum records and <br /> <br />CBC's indicate Piping Plovers regularly wintered in the following <br />counties: Bay, Brevard, Broward, Collier, Dade, Duval, Franklin, <br />.f ~ <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 /> <br />in Broward, Indian River, Nassau, and Orange counties. <br /> <br />Current Distribution <br /> <br />Northern Great Plains: Cur~ently, 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 /> <br />and McCone counties), and on the: saline wetlands near Dagmar and <br />Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge (Sheridan County). <br />In North Dakota, Piping Plovers breed in 25 counties along <br />the Missouri River and on alkali wetlands in the central region <br /> <br />, <br />of the state (R. Kreil, North Da~ota Game and Fish Department). <br /> <br />l~ <br /> <br /> <br />...... <br />