Shepody Bay (french: Baie de Chipoudy) is a tidal embayment, an extension of the Bay of Fundy in

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, which consists of of open water and of mudflats, with of saline

marsh A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found a ...

on the west, and eroding

sand Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class o ...

and gravel

beach A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc sh ...

es covering an area of approximately on the eastern shore. The intertidal mudflats "support internationally important numbers of the crustacean ''

Corophium volutator ''Corophium volutator'' is a species of amphipod crustacean in the family Corophiidae. It is found in mudflats of the northern Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It ...

'', the principal food source for millions of fall migrating shorebirds". The surrounding area of of coastal

wetland A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The p ...

was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance on May 27, 1987, is a globally significant Important Bird Area, and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. It is located about south of Moncton. The nearest population centre is

Riverside-Albert Riverside-Albert (2016 pop.: 350) is a Canadian village in Hopewell Parish of Albert County, New Brunswick. Riverside-Albert is located on the Shepody River at the edge of the Shepody Marsh. The community of Harvey Parish is located across t ...

with a population of about 320. The

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passes across part of Shepody Marsh. Major streams feeding into the bay are the Shepody River,

Petitcodiac River The Petitcodiac River is a river in south-eastern New Brunswick, Canada. Referred to as the "chocolate river" by local tourist businesses, it is characterized by its brown mud floor and brown waters. The river has a meander length of and is lo ...

and

Memramcook River The Memramcook River is a river located in Westmorland County, in southeastern New Brunswick, eastern Canada. Geography Its meander length is approximately , of which approximately is a tidal estuary to its discharge point into the Petitcodiac ...

. These three rivers gave the area its name under Acadian occupation in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Trois Rivieres.

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{{Rivers of New Brunswick Bays of New Brunswick Ramsar sites in Canada Important Bird Areas of New Brunswick Landforms of Westmorland County, New Brunswick Landforms of Albert County, New Brunswick Wetlands of New Brunswick

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