Site Name: Peard Bay
Status: Recognized State: Alaska
Priority: Continental Country: US
Criteria Proposed: A1, A4i
Criteria Confirmed: B1, D4ii 		County:
Northwest Arctic
 
Latitude: 70.83333
Longitude: -158.83333
 Area (ha): 135087.0 Elevation (m):
Min 0.0  Max 10.0  Avg 0.0
 
Bird Conservation Region:
Arctic Plains and Mountains 		Endemic Bird Area:
 
Site Description:
Peard Bay is a large relatively deep bay, on the north coast west of Barrow, protected on the north by a 25-km long sand spit and a series of small barrier islands. The main bay and the smaller Kurgua Bay are fed by the Kurgua River.
 
Ornithological Significance:
Year is unknown, but a number had to be entered. surveys conducted 1998-2001. Year is unknown, but a number had to be entered. Season: breeding and passage.

Surveys conducted 1998-2001. Year is unknown, but a number had to be entered. Year is unknown, but a number had to be entered. Season: breeding and passage.

Surveys conducted 1998-2001. Season: breeding and passage.

Surveys conducted: 1998-2001.

 
Criteria:
 
Species Data and Criteria :
Common Name Date Seasonal/ Daily Season # Observed Density (#/km2) Units Proposed Criteria Confirmed Criteria
Brant 2001 breeding  1000    Unknown     
Common Eider 2001 breeding  1000    Unknown     
Spectacled Eider 2001 breeding  100    Unknown  A1 - Global Species of Conservation Concern
 B1 - Continental Species of Conservation Concern
Long-tailed Duck 2001 unknown  1000    Unknown     
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1700 unknown  0    Unset     
Western Sandpiper 1700 unknown  0    Unset     
Dunlin 1700 unknown  0    Unset     
Red Phalarope 1700 unknown  0    Unset  A4i - >1% N.A waterbird pop. simultaneously; 5% over season
  
 
Ownership
Federal (Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), State of Alaska, and Native.
% of IBA Ownership

 
Habitat
Intertidal habitats include extensive mixed sand and cobble beaches, limited unvegetated flats, and salt marsh at the west end of the bay and in Kurgua Bay, and mud/sand shoreline along the interior of Peard and Kurgua Bays.

Sand spits, barrier islands, intertidal mud/sandflats, gravel shoreline, vegetated, intertidal, eel grass beds.

Shoreline: 207 km Barrier beach.spit: 11 km2 Vegetated intertidal: 2 km2 Unvegetated intertidal: 1 km2

% of IBA Habitat
  Forested Upland / Deciduous forest / Other 

 
Land Use
hunting; fishing; urban industrial transport.
% of Total Use of IBA Land Use
  fisheries/aquaculture 
  hunting 
  urban/industrial/transport 

 
Conservation Issues
Barge traffic carrying petroleum products and associated leakage.

Consumptive hunting.

Potential for oil development in the Chukchi Sea.

Level Threat
  Unknown 

Citation: National Audubon Society 2009. Important Bird Areas in the U.S.
Available at http://www.audubon.org/bird/iba 11/2009