Record #:

19187

Author(s):

Davis, Nancy

Abstract:

Each year, thousands of water birds travel to Battery Island--a chuck of marsh rising out of the Cape Fear River across from Southport. During the summer this area becomes home to North Carolina's largest populations of white ibises, egrets, and heron. As such the state is leasing Battery Island to the Audubon Society as a sanctuary where it can be managed and studied as a refuge for water birds.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. 11 Issue 5, May 1984, p4-5, f

Subject(s):

Water birds--Management--Sanctuaries; Battery Island