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Important Bird Areas
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Important Bird Areas
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An Important Bird Area is a site that provides essential habitat to one or more species of Arizona’s breeding and non-breeding birds. They are generally discrete sites that support one or more high-priority species, large concentrations of birds, exceptional habitat, and/or have substantial research value. Such sites may be protected or unprotected, public or private, and any size amendable to conservation efforts.
Important Bird Areas have no legal land-use implications, are broadly applicable, and generally work as just one piece of the conservation puzzle. Even in states where many sites have been nominated, they should not be viewed as the only sites important to birds, or as the only sites in the state needing protection. They are voluntary means of attaining local conservation by building and mobilizing networks of birders and conservation professionals. The can attract funding and can effect land-use planning at the local level.
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