On Chincoteague, We Stop for Ducks
On Chincoteague, We Stop for Ducks
If you were a wild duck, you'd be highly motivated to head along the Atlantic Flyway for Virginia's Eastern Shore and Chincoteague Island. One of your biggest motivations would be to hang out with the millions of other ducks who have already discovered the delights of Chincoteague and Assateague Islands.
The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is a 14,000 acre parcel of marshes, forests, beaches, and sand dunes where waterfowl and other birds can safely nest or simply stopping to recuperate on their long migratory journeys between Canada and points south in the spring and autumn of each year.
The Refuge includes not only the southern portion of Assateague and several other barrier islands, but approximately 560 acres of Wildcat Marsh on the northern end of Chincoteague itself.
If you were a wild duck who craved attention, you’d certainly find it on Chincoteague. The Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge attracts tens of thousands of birdwatchers each year, all eager for a glimpse of the black ducks which call Chincoteague home all year long. But they also come in the spring to view the colorful mallards, teal, canvasbacks, and ruddy ducks.
They even show up when the chill winds of autumn begins to blow to witness the arrival of the goldeneyes, mergansers, and other species of divers around the waters off Chincoteague. With that sort of dedicated following, the ducks of Chincoteague are "lucky ducks" indeed!
The people of Chincoteague are fully aware of how much ducks mean to their own economic survival. The Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge accounted for over 3700 jobs in 2006, and drew more visitors than any of the US' nearly eighty additional Wildlife Refuges. Families of ducks waddling their way across the roads of Chincoteague or Assateague are afforded the same rights as human pedestrians. On Chincoteague, we stop for ducks!
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If you were a wild duck, you'd be highly motivated to head along the Atlantic Flyway for Virginia's Eastern Shore and Chincoteague Island. One of your biggest motivations would be to hang out with the millions of other ducks who have already discovered the delights of Chincoteague and Assateague Islands.
The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is a 14,000 acre parcel of marshes, forests, beaches, and sand dunes where waterfowl and other birds can safely nest or simply stopping to recuperate on their long migratory journeys between Canada and points south in the spring and autumn of each year.
The Refuge includes not only the southern portion of Assateague and several other barrier islands, but approximately 560 acres of Wildcat Marsh on the northern end of Chincoteague itself.
If you were a wild duck who craved attention, you’d certainly find it on Chincoteague. The Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge attracts tens of thousands of birdwatchers each year, all eager for a glimpse of the black ducks which call Chincoteague home all year long. But they also come in the spring to view the colorful mallards, teal, canvasbacks, and ruddy ducks.
They even show up when the chill winds of autumn begins to blow to witness the arrival of the goldeneyes, mergansers, and other species of divers around the waters off Chincoteague. With that sort of dedicated following, the ducks of Chincoteague are "lucky ducks" indeed!
The people of Chincoteague are fully aware of how much ducks mean to their own economic survival. The Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge accounted for over 3700 jobs in 2006, and drew more visitors than any of the US' nearly eighty additional Wildlife Refuges. Families of ducks waddling their way across the roads of Chincoteague or Assateague are afforded the same rights as human pedestrians. On Chincoteague, we stop for ducks!
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Labels: Assateague, Chincoteague, Chincoteague Campgrounds, Chincoteague Island, National Wildlife Refuge
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