Wings Over Water Encore begins Friday, December 6

The Wings Over Water (WOW) Festival’s weekend-long encore session begins on Friday, December 6, and the event features a dozen birding activities and trips for visitors who want to explore Eastern North Carolina’s wild side.

The original Wings Over Water, (which began in 1997), is held over a multiple-day period in October, but this special encore session in early December allows birders and photographers to discover a larger number of migratory birds and waterfowl that are more prevalent in the winter months.

Though the activities scheduled over the weekend are scattered throughout a number of National Wildlife Refuges in Eastern N.C., many of the events take place on Hatteras Island, and launch from the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge’s Visitors Center or nearby sites.

Interested attendees can see an overview of WOW Encore trip descriptions and can register online at https://www.wingsoverwater.org/.

Wings Over Water is an annual refuge fundraising event sponsored by Coastal Wildlife Refuge Society (CWRS). Funds raised are used to support refuge projects such as trail and sign maintenance, refuge equipment (such as scopes and binoculars), and educational travel grants issued to get young people involved with wildlife and refuges.

CWRS is a non-profit group which exists to support regional national wildlife refuges. WOW, besides providing funds for educational grants to schools, is a part of many CWRS refuge support projects such as maintaining trails, signs, and other refuge structures. Also, WOW helps CWRS provide volunteers and staff who are essential to the maintenance and operation of the regional national wildlife refuges visitor centers, and refuges.