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Wings Over Water 2000



This is your invitation to join us in Northeastern North Carolina November
3-5, 2000 for the fourth annual ....

Wings Over Water Birding Festival


Welcome to North Carolina's Outer Banks and adjacent lands that are a
paradise of ocean beaches, rolling sand hills, scrub thickets, broad marsh
areas, pocosins, black water swamps and maritime and inland forests. These
varied habitats are rich in wildlife with large acreage protected as
parks,reserves, and wildlife refuges.

By November, the frantic, summer tourist season is well past, and the land
and water are left to those who wish to blend with nature. The three-day
Wings Over Water event is your opportunity to enter this land of wildlife
enchantment. Through field trips, workshops and seminars that you select
based on your interests, you will get an insider's look at one of the most
fascinating ecological settings in the United States.

Sponsored by the Dare County Tourist Bureau, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
Coastal Wildlife Society, the National Park Service, and the Outer Banks Chamber
of Commerce, the annual Wings Over Water will include over 100 workshops, field
trips and seminars. The programs will take place in the diversity of ocean
beaches, rolling sand hills, shrub thickets, broad marsh areas, pocosins,
blackwater swamps and tracts of maritime and inland Northeastern North Carolina
forests.  A number of these workshops, field trips and seminars count towards
the NC Environmental Education Certification Program!

You may review the events; request your own registration booklet and
schedule of events; or, download your registration form from the "Wings"
internet site at:


http://www.northeast-nc.com/wings/


Wings Over Water is a must for serious birders, wildlife enthusiasts, and
anyone wanting to get close-up and personal with these unique ecosystems.
Come ... share the experience of a lifetime ..... in your lifetime!  Over 220
species have been sighted in the Festival Area during previous Wings Over Water
Festivals, each lasting three days.  


For additional information contact call:


Bonnie Strawser
(252) 473-1131 X 19
or
The Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce
(252) 441-8144


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Keith Watson            
Natural Resource Specialist
Outer Banks Group
Rt. 1 Box 675
Manteo, NC  27954

252-473-2111 ext. 132
252-473-2595 Fax
Keith_Watson@nps.gov