• Brown Pelican taking off.

    Cape Hatteras

    National Seashore North Carolina

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Protected Species 2011 Annual Reports

2011 Resource Management Annual Reports

Piping Plover
2011 Piping Plover Report

Sea Turtles
2011 Sea Turtles Report

Seabeach Amaranth
2011 Seabeach Amaranth Report

Colonial Waterbirds
2011 Colonial Waterbirds Summary

American Oystercatcher
2011 American Oystercatcher Summary 

Did You Know?

Sea Whip, though it looks like a plant, is actually whole colony of animals.

A piece of sea whip that washes up on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore is not a plant, but the skeleton of a whole colony of animals.

A tiny animal lived in each hole on the yellow, orange or purple stems.  It had a mouth, a stomach and eight tentacles to catch food.