Shepody Bay

{{Short description|Tidal embayment in New Brunswick, Canada}}

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Shepody Bay ({{langx|fr|link=no|Baie de Chipoudy}}) is a tidal embayment, an extension of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada, which consists of {{convert|77|km2|mi2}} of open water and {{cvt|40|km2|mi2}} of mudflats, with {{cvt|4|km2|mi2}} of saline marsh on the west, and eroding sand and gravel beaches covering an area of approximately {{cvt|1|km2|mi2}} on the eastern shore. The intertidal mudflats "support internationally important numbers of the crustacean Corophium volutator, the principal food source for millions of fall migrating shorebirds".

The surrounding area of {{cvt|122|km2|mi2}} of coastal wetland was designated a Ramsar wetland of international importance on May 27, 1987,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_canada.htm |title=The Annotated Ramsar List: Canada |work=The Annotated Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance |publisher=Ramsar Convention Bureau |date=10 January 2000 |access-date=30 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129161427/http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_canada.htm |archive-date=29 January 2008}} is a globally significant Important Bird Area,{{Cite web |url=http://www.bsc-eoc.org/iba/site.jsp?siteID=NB009 |title=Shepody Bay West |publisher=IBA Canada |access-date=30 January 2008 |archive-date=12 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612091837/http://www.bsc-eoc.org/iba/site.jsp?siteID=NB009 |url-status=live }} and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.

It is located about {{convert|50|km|mi}} south of Moncton. The nearest population centre is Riverside-Albert with a population of about 320. The Trans Canada Trail passes across part of Shepody Marsh.

Major streams feeding into the bay are the Shepody River, Petitcodiac River and Memramcook River. These three rivers gave the area its name under Acadian occupation in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Trois Rivieres.