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Habitat: Red Arrow Park is Bottomland Hardwoods, Open Water, Beaches and Mudflats, Marsh, Urban/Residential/Industrial. Seagull Bar is Open Water, Beaches and Mudflats, Hardwood Swamp, and Marsh.
Best Birds: Designated a Wisconsin Important Bird Area, Seagull Bar is the only true dune complex along Green Bay and is an important migratory bird staging area. In September large numbers of neotropical migrants can be seen bottled up on the spit waiting for night to fly south over the water to land. Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plover, Willet, Solitary, Buff-breasted, Pectoral, Baird’s, Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Dunlin, Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstone and Whimbrel are just some of the shorebirds found here during spring and fall migration. Caspian Tern can be seen feeding their young and American Black Duck, Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper nest on the spit. Species seen along the walking trails in Red Arrow Park include Pied-billed Grebe, nesting Sandhill Cranes, and Black-and-White Warbler.
Directions: On the southeast corner of the city of Marinette. Follow Leonard Street to its end to reach Red Arrow Park. Walk southeast through Red Arrow Park, along Lake Michigan to access Seagull Bar
Site Address & Additional Information:
The park has two parking lots that lead to a nature walk along the bay and the lagoon.
Red Arrow Park
Seagull Bar is a mile long sand spit and marsh that varies year to year due to the bay’s fluctuating water level. The sand spit shelters a large area of shallow water with emergent vegetation called the Lagoon or Pocket.
Seagull Bar
45.0794657, -87.588746
Seagull Bar State Natural Area - Wisconsin DNR
Joan Campbell
