<div class="content-body"> <p>Website under construction.</p>| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="content-body"> <p>Website under construction.</p>| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="content-body"> <p>Website under construction.</p>| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="content-body"> <p>Website under construction.</p>| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="content-body"> <p><span>The </span><span>sanctuary serves as a hub of education and applied research. Audubon works with diverse partners to study and address the</span><span> challenges facing this important landscape. Resilience solutions developed at Pine Island are </span><span>ex</span><span>ported to Audubon’s network in North Carolina and throughout the Atlantic Flyway, helping </span><span>communities, managers, and researchers better understand and ad...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/apa_2016_red-tailed_hawk_rick_derevan_kk_1.jpg?itok=SVVyRppg" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p>Website under construction.</p>| Pine Island Audubon Center
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<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/salt_marsh.jpg?itok=tFJ-xpyR" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Tidal Freshwater Marsh (Giant Cordgrass Subtype): </strong> Extensive marshes are present on a complex of islands on the sound side of the site. This presumably is a relict tidal delta left by some past inlet. The marsh complex is a mosaic consisting primarily of the Giant Cordgrass Subtype a...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3223.jpg?itok=UXq8jNmQ" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Ponds</strong>: A number of seasonal to permanent ponds are present in the northern part of the site. Most are clearly of artificial origin or have been enlarged or deepened by digging or impounding. Water is pumped in some to alter the hydroperiod. Some have beds of Panicum hemito...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3220.jpg?itok=NwTS_wft" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Wet Grassland (Southern Hairgrass Subtype): </strong> Small patches of herbaceous-dominated vegetation in wetter swales seem best classified as this community, but are not well developed and are somewhat odd. Most occur in complexes with Stable Dune Barrens, where they have similarly o...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3209.jpg?itok=C5TVNwgi" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Shrub Swamp (Red Bay Subtype): </strong>This very rare community was seen in the southern part of the site, where it occurs as an irregular band on the wet sound side of the island, and intergrades with Maritime Swamp Forest and Maritime Evergreen Forest. It borders the marshes along ...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3225.jpg?itok=KcxWj5_e" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Swamp Forest (Typic Subtype): </strong> Occurs as scattered small to medium size patches in swales in the Maritime Evergreen Forest or on the low sound side of the island, in both the northern and southern parts of the site. The forest canopy is a varying mix of Pinus taeda, Acer rubru...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3212.jpg?itok=nOA2497m" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Shrub (Stunted Tree Subtype): </strong> Only limited areas of Maritime Shrub were seen, in narrow fringes along the seaward side of the forest, and occasional more extensive mosaics combined with Stable Dune Barren. It represents a smooth gradation in canopy stature from forest t...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/20160129_164702.jpg?itok=GhXqwH4c" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Evergreen Forest (Mid Atlantic Subtype): </strong>This community is the most extensive on the barrier island, forming the matrix in which the other non-marsh communities occur. It has a dominated by Quercus virginiana in most parts, with Pinus taeda dominant or codominant local...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3215.jpg?itok=jLZRpSAH" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Stable Dune Barren (Beach Heather Subtype): </strong>Occurs as small to medium size patches on higher portions of relict dunes surrounded by forest or occasionally scrub. The barrens are on the highest parts of the dunes, often with forest in lower areas around them. However, in some pla...| Pine Island Audubon Center
a lot of fish in the sound means food for birds and man alike!| Pine Island Audubon Center
a wonderland of yet to be cataloged diversity| Pine Island Audubon Center
Pine Island is heavenly for Herps| Pine Island Audubon Center
From bunnies to coyotes| Pine Island Audubon Center
Who uses Pine Island Sanctuary?| Pine Island Audubon Center
at the intersection of time and tide...| Pine Island Audubon Center
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Pine Island hosts many rare habitats and a wide diversity of plant species.| Pine Island Audubon Center
In addition to being vital to bird conservation, Pine Island provides a safe home for an amazing array of species of wildlife.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Climate change is the leading threat to birds.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Explore the Outer and Inner Banks| Pine Island Audubon Center
Full life-cycle conservation on a landscape scale| Pine Island Audubon Center
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Audubon's plans for an enduring landscape| Pine Island Audubon Center
How Can I Help Birds and Wildlife at the Sanctuary?| Pine Island Audubon Center
Learn about how Audubon is creating a world class conservation research and education campus| Pine Island Audubon Center
Local Staff, Statewide and National Support| Pine Island Audubon Center
The Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Sanctuary is a unique and exciting place to organize a group visit for board retreats, photography groups, university classes and more.| Pine Island Audubon Center
A key stop along the Atlantic Flyway bird migration route, the Outer Banks are brimming with opportunities to spot birds coming to and through the northeast corner of North Carolina.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Explore the spectacular habitats of the Sanctuary and Audubon Center in Corolla and participate in our immersive programming.| Pine Island Audubon Center
You don't have to be a researcher to support bird conservation across our state. You just have to like birds! Find out how you can become a citizen scientist where you live.| Pine Island Audubon Center
The Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Audubon Sanctuary is full of a wide-range of habitats, birds and wildlife. We offer supporters many ways to stay up to date and get involved.| Pine Island Audubon Center
You can join the excitement by becoming a supporter and/or volunteer of the Donal C. O’Brien Jr. Sanctuary and Audubon Center.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Audubon’s Sanctuary in Corolla is host to hundreds of individual species and more are being identified and recorded regularly.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Surrounded by parks, wildlife refuges and Important Bird Areas, there are plenty of ways to make your visit to the region spectacular.| Audubon Pine Island Sanctuary & Center