The Site Guide: Dauphin Island, Alabama
Journal
North American Birds
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year
1972
Pages
539
Online Text
A barrier beach island, fish-hook shaped, 14 m. from e. to w., widening at its e. end, but less than 1 mi. wide. Western 10 m. typical sandy strip with beach and dunes facing the Gulf, salt marsh, tide pools, and flats on bay side. E. end of island is mixed habitat: live oak, mixed deciduous and loblolly pine forests, open meadows, copses, thickets, residential, fresh water ponds. E. end of island has 164-acre sanctuary, with grain-planted fields, minnow-stocked pond, caterpillar-stocked persimmon trees; it is the site of an active banding station.
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