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Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 40.7138257, -83.3016014 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Abraham Marsh
Coordinates: 40.7075799, -83.3464909 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Co. Highway 71 East
Coordinates: 40.7234861, -83.2610786 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Co. Highway 71 West
Coordinates: 40.723717, -83.30838 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Co. Highway 75 (no vehicles)
Coordinates: 40.7089329, -83.3115578 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Harold Roe Wetland
Coordinates: 40.7176282, -83.3220505 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Owl Pines
Coordinates: 40.7173713, -83.3551168 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Pond 27
Coordinates: 40.7050123, -83.2817993 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Pond 3
Coordinates: 40.7171518, -83.3399385 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Pond 30
Coordinates: 40.7121342, -83.2319927 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Pond 33
Coordinates: 40.7110281, -83.3688068 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Pond 6
Coordinates: 40.7209166, -83.2984257 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Reservoir
Coordinates: 40.7034424, -83.379445 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area--Former Service Center Area
Coordinates: 40.7083606, -83.3272648 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area (Marion Co.)
Coordinates: 40.6987306, -83.2852936 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Myers Woods
Coordinates: 40.7017727, -83.2385266 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Washburn Rd.
Coordinates: 40.6948912, -83.2654667 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 40.5687032, -83.2741356 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Espyville Rd. North
Coordinates: 40.5893542, -83.2606592 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Espyville Rd. South
Coordinates: 40.5760214, -83.256712 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Herr Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5891844, -83.2032999 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Hoch Rd. Reservoir
Coordinates: 40.5890432, -83.2381803 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--North of Larue-Prospect Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5743133, -83.2742214 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--South of Larue-Prospect Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5632019, -83.2637065 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Larue-Prospect Rd. Wetlands Reserve
Coordinates: 40.5713984, -83.3102844 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--North of Marion-Agosta Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5882764, -83.2320786 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--South of Marion-Agosta Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5827874, -83.2371748 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Prospect-Upper Sandusky Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5981179, -83.2259846 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--Rayl Cemetery
Coordinates: 40.5565043, -83.1938696 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Big Island Wildlife Area--White Barn Containment Pond
Coordinates: 40.5718166, -83.2959706 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hoch Rd. Wetland
Coordinates: 40.5984381, -83.2395291 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Marion Tallgrass Trail--Holland Rd. to OH-203
Coordinates: 40.5937513, -83.2010078 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Marion Tallgrass Trail--OH-203 to Espyville Rd.
Coordinates: 40.5963012, -83.2352114 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Marion Tallgrass Trail--Espyville Rd. to Agosta-Meeker Rd.
Coordinates: 40.599242, -83.2722902 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Killdeer Plains-Big Island Important Bird Area
This IBA encompasses two State Wildlife Areas with connecting habitat in between. Big Island WA covers 5,032 acres and Killdeer Plains WA 8,627 acres. The area spans part of a large former wetland prairie, historically one of the larger prairie systems found in Ohio. It is predominantly level, with areas of rolling land near the Little Sandusky and Scioto Rivers. Extensive patches of agricultural areas are found within the IBA, with more than two-thirds consisting of cropland and meadows, much of it interspersed with brushy hedgerows. The management emphasis is on grassland and wetland species through the gradual restoration of marsh and prairie habitat.

Big Island is the site of the largest wetland prairie in Ohio. A 285-acre upland reservoir, as well as an annually flooded 360-acre greentree reservoir, are located at Killdeer Plains. Approximately 15% of the IBA is covered by second- and third-growth hardwood woodlots with many constructed ponds, cattail marshes, wet meadows, and planted prairies. Several thousand acres are set aside as a wildlife refuge with restricted public access. It has resident populations of Eastern massasauga rattlesnakes and Eastern plains garter snakes, as well as a huge population of various amphibians.

This IBA attracts a high diversity of both nesting and migrating species. Nesting grassland species include a variety of sparrows, Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, Northern Harriers, and Short-eared Owls. Bald Eagles nest annually. Migrants include large numbers of warblers and shorebirds, fall migrants such Red-tailed Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, and Northern Harriers, as well as fall populations of 50,000 migrant ducks and 11,000 migrant Canada Geese. A study run from 1990-1995 showed over twenty species of raptors used Killdeer Plains including state-listed breeders such as Bald Eagles, Northern Harriers, and Long-eared and Short-eared Owls. A breeding study by N. Moore, V. Fazio, and T. Bartlett (1995-1996) indicated that 43% of state-listed species were found as breeders and 37% used the area as migrants or winter residents. From Killdeer Plains-Big Island Important Bird Area webpage

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