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Sundown
Island Sanctuary, also locally known as Bird Island,
is a low-lying, seventy-acre island built from dredge spoil
in 1962. It is located near where the Matagorda Ship
Channel and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway cross in Matagorda
Bay, east of Port O'Connor and southeast of Port Lavaca, in
the Texas' coastal bend.
The Island is leased from the General
Land Office and managed by the National Audubon Society's
Texas Coastal Sanctuaries program, as part of the Society's
13,000-acre network of 33 islands that stretch from Mexico
to Louisiana.
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