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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This IBA is made up of a series of bays along the Bayfield Peninsula of Lake Superior\u2014Port Wing; Bark Bay; the mouths of Lost Creeks; and Raspberry Bay.\u00a0 The first 3 of these are State Natural Areas and the fourth\u2014Raspberry Bay\u2014is on the Red Cliff Indian Reservation.\u00a0 Once connected directly to Lake Superior, these bays now have bay-mouth bars that host sand and gravel beaches and dunes forested with white and red pine, fir, and spruce.\u00a0 Behind these bars, the intermixing of mineral-rich water from inland sources with the mineral-poor water of Lake Superior has created a unique complex of habitats supporting many boreal plant species.\u00a0 Habitats include sedge meadow, open bog, deep marsh, lowland brush, young deciduous upland forest, and mixed hardwood-conifer forest.<\/p>\n

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South Shore Wetlands, photo by Ryan Brady<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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South Shore Wetlands, photo by Eric Epstein<\/p><\/div>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

The mosaic of habitats provide for small numbers of breeding birds, including a high diversity of warblers (18 species regularly nesting).\u00a0 Priority breeders include yellow rail, olive-sided flycatcher, veery, and Blackburnian warbler.\u00a0 The bays and beaches host migrating shorebirds, diving ducks, and landbirds including thousands of raptors of 13 species.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This IBA is made up of a series of bays along the Bayfield Peninsula of Lake Superior\u2014Port Wing; Bark Bay; the mouths of Lost Creeks; and Raspberry Bay.\u00a0 The first 3 of these are State Natural Areas and the fourth\u2014Raspberry Bay\u2014is on the Red Cliff Indian Reservation.\u00a0 Once connected directly to Lake Superior,… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions\/573"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}