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<br />birds in six counties: Emmet (Wilderness State Park), Charlevoix <br /> <br />(High Island), Leelanau (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore), <br /> <br /> <br />Alger (Grand Marais), Chippewa (Vermillion Station and Weather <br /> <br />Hog area), and Luce (Deer Park) (E. Pik~, Michigan Department of <br /> <br />Natural Resources). Other Great Lakes Piping plover activity is <br /> <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 /> <br />surveys in Indiana did not result in discovery of any Piping <br /> <br />plovers (Cable 1987). <br /> <br />f <br /> <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 /> <br />"f <br /> <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 /> <br />birds have been sighted wintering on the Atlantic Coast (Haig <br /> <br />1987a). Unless otherwise specified, winter sites discussed below <br /> <br />are currently used by Piping plovers and have been verified for <br /> <br />ten years or more by CBC's. All known Gulf of Mexico sites were <br /> <br />censused from 1983-85 (Haig and Oring1985, Haig 1987b). <br /> <br />Piping Plovers use Texas beaches and sandflatsalong the <br />entire Gulf coast from Brownsville to Sea Rim State Park. <br /> <br />Concentrations are found in the following counties: Jefferson, <br /> <br />Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda, Calhoun, Aransas, <br /> <br />Nueces, San Patricio, Kleberg, Willacy, and Cameron. <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br />- <br />