NJ-Champagne+Island

Also see Hereford Inlet and Stone Harbor Point Important Bird Area
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Cape May County
=Champagne Island= Wildwood, New Jersey 08260 Champagne Island Nesting Bird Project article Hereford Inlet and Stone Harbor Point Important Bird Area (New Jersey Audubon) web page Hereford Inlet and Stone Harbor Point Important Bird Area map

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Champagne Island
Coordinates: 39.0257852, -74.7877121 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Champagne Island
Situated within Hereford Inlet in Cape May County, Champagne Island is a small sandbar island that changes in size and shape from year to year, sometimes disappearing altogether. In those years when its elevation is high enough to avoid flooding, it is typically one of the state’s most important locations for nesting birds, especially the state endangered black skimmer. In 2007, for instance, over 1600 skimmers, nearly 85% of the entire state population, nested there. State endangered piping plover and least tern, as well as species of special concern, such as common tern and American oystercatcher also nest there. Shorebirds, including the red knot, which rely on our state as a critical stopover during their spring migration route, use the island as well. From Champagne Island Nesting Bird Project article

About Hereford Inlet and Stone Harbor Point Important Bird Area
Separated by the waters of Hereford Inlet, this site includes the beach and dune habitat of North Wildwood to the south and the beaches, mudflats and salt marshes of Stone Harbor Point, Champagne Island and Nummy Island to the north. Nummy Island is a 350-acre uninhabited island composed primarily of tidal salt marsh with areas of sand, mudflats and pools. Champagne Island is an intermittent sandbar bordering the intra-coastal waterway channel. Stone Harbor Point, located at the southernmost tip of Stone Harbor, has a sandy shoreline with mudflats and pools on its inland side. This IBA has been designated a Natural Heritage Priority Site by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). From Hereford Inlet and Stone Harbor Point Important Bird Area (New Jersey Audubon) web page

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