Fish Creek Island is a 48-acre (19-hectare)

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

on the Ohio River in Marshall County,

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, United States. The island is located across the river from Captina, West Virginia, south of

Moundsville Moundsville is a city in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia metropolitan area. The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Marshall County. T ...

, and north of the mouth of Fish Creek, from which it takes its name. Previously owned by CONSOL Energy Inc., Fish Creek Island was donated by CONSOL to the

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to protect the island's habitat for its rare great blue herons. The bar is West Virginia's largest great blue heron

rookery A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-forming seabirds, marine mammals ( true seals and sea lions), and ...

. The Nature Conservancy turned over Fish Creek Island to the

Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (ORINWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in non-contiguous sites consisting of islands along of the Ohio River, primarily (85% of acreage) in the U.S. state of West Virginia. There are also two ...

which is now a protected island of the reserve.

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Fish Creek Island
on WikiMapia River islands of West Virginia Protected areas of Marshall County, West Virginia Islands of the Ohio River Landforms of Marshall County, West Virginia {{MarshallCountyWV-geo-stub

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