Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
Located on the north end of Hatteras Island, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge provides programs which focus on "interpretation, environmental education, wildlife observation, wildlife photography, and fishing."
Preview your trip on the web: Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
Learn more
- Fish and Wildlife Species Information and links regarding Endangered Species, Invasive Species, and Other Species. There is an image library with with copyright-free photographs and illustrations of all sorts of plants and wildlife. The wildlife fact sheets can be accessed using HTML or PDF format.
- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission - Wildlife Species and Habitat Information A North Carolina Wildlife Resources site with detailed information about wildlife resources and management in the state. Information about animals such as the wood duck, white-tailed deer, beaver, wild turkey, quail, sea turtles, and predators such as various owls, osprey, black bear, wild boar and the gray fox is found here.
- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Information about laws and licenses for hunting, fishing, boating, and more. Descriptions of North Carolina reptiles, mammals, and other critters as well as conservation details. A kids page with activities and lots of information and opportunities for teachers. Find out how to reserve the mobile aquarium!
- Lesson plan: Changing with the tide Students will learn about and act out the functions of the salt marsh habitat.
- Lesson plan: Habitat photo album Students will use digital cameras and explore the outdoors searching ecosystems for opportunities to take pictures of different habitats and the components that go into them.
Related pages
- Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge: An introduction to the refuge containing information about the habitat, native plants, and wildlife species, as well as details about refuge activities, programs, and events.
- Jockey's Ridge State Park: Experience a world of the shifting sands and a barren, desert environment as well as an estuarine environment of the tidal waters of the Roanoke Sound at Jockey's Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina.
- The Walter B. Jones Sr. Center for The Sounds and the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge: Students can take a walk on the Scuppernong River Interpretive Boardwalk and participate in an environmental education program at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
Related topics
- Learn more about Dare County, North Carolina, Outer Banks, ecosystems, endangered species, environment, environmental science, habitats, loggerhead sea turtles, migratory birds, nature reserves, peregrine falcons, raptors, salt marshes, science, waterfowl, and wildlife.
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This wildlife refuge is located on NC 12 on Hatteras Island. Open daily year round, the refuge has a visitors center, an interpretive trail, photo blind and more. Enjoy this barrier island habitat with its pristine beaches, dunes, salt marsh, and man-made impoundments.
Contact Cindy Heffley, Interpretive Specialist, at cindy_heffley@fws.gov or (252) 987-1118 to find out more about this field trip opportunity.
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