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Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
United States Fish and Wildlife: Staff Publications
Mattamuskeet, Pea Island, and Swanquarter-- two on the mainland and one on the outermost barrier beach--are three National Wildlife Refuges in North Carolina that provide winter food and shelter for more than 100,000 waterfowl. Ducks, geese, and swans that in summer scatter across the northern rim of the world from Greenland to Alaska come down the sky lanes in the fall and in these refuges find the conditions they need to survive the hard months of winter.
At Mattamuskeet you can see one of the largest assemblages of Canada geese on the Atlantic seaboard and more of that giant white …
Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
United States Fish and Wildlife: Staff Publications
The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is New England's most important contribution to the national effort to save the waterfowl of North America. Many million Americans have a direct stake in the success of this effort: the 2,000,00o waterfowl hunters, the millions who find recreation and esthetic pleasure in observing and photographing the birds, and all those, whom there is no way of counting, who understand the value of preserving wildlife as part of America's natural heritage.
During the several generations in which the United States has been converted from a land preeminently wild and unsettled into an industrial and …
Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson
United States Fish and Wildlife: Staff Publications
The national wildlife refuge at Chincoteague, Virginia, is one of the newest in a chain of sanctuaries placed along the flight lanes of the waterfowl. Coming down from the north the principal links of the chain are Parker River, Montezuma, Susquehanna, Brigantine, and Bombay Hook. Then from Chincoteague the links run south, through Back Bay and Pea Island, Mattamuskeet and Cape Romain. Chincoteague, like other waterfowl refuges, is needed because birds migrate, and because in so doing they expose themselves to great dangers.
The migration of birds is one of the ancient spectacles of earth, and one of the most …