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NORTHEAST COASTAL AREAS STUDY
SIGNIFICANT COASTAL HABITATS

Key to Habitat Sites and Complexes:

1. The Narrows Complex

2. Three Harbors Area

3. Nissequogue River

4. Port Jefferson - Stony Brook Harbor Complex

5. Peconic River - Pinelands Complex

6. North Fork Beach Complex

7. Orient Point - Islands Complex

8. Gardiners Island and Point

9. Montauk Peninsula Complex

10. Acabonack Harbor Area

11. Shelter Island - Harbor Bays Complex

12. Noyack Bay Beaches

13. Cow Neck Complex

14. Flanders Bay Wetlands Complex

15. Moriches Bay

16. Great South Bay

17. South Oyster Bay

18. Hempstead Bay (East, Middle, West Bays)

19. Harbor Herons Rookery Complex

20. Norwalk Islands and Tidal Wetlands Complex

21. Lower Housatonic River - Great Meadows Marsh Complex

22. New Haven Harbor Complex

23. Falkner and Goose Islands

24. Greater Hammonasset Complex

25. Connecticut River and Tidal Wetlands Complex

26. Lower Thames River System

27. Fishers Island Sound Complex

28. Block Island

29. Chapman Swamp/Pawcatuck River

30. Maschaug Pond

31. Areas North and East of Trustom Pond and Green Hill Swamp

32. Hundred Acre Cove/Palmer River Complex

33. Rhode Island Sound - Buzzards Bay Beach Complex

34. Buzzards Bay Colonial Bird Nesting and Feeding Areas

35. Sippewisset Marshes

36. Nantucket Sound Barrier Beach\Bay Complex

37. Hyannis Coastal Ponds Complex

38. Miacomet Moorlands, Nantucket Island

39. Muskeget and Tuckernuck Islands and Muskeget Channel

40. Martha's Vineyard Coastal Sandplain and Beach Complex