A string of protected man-made
islands provide a safe home only
for the
Here on the Bird Islands in the Cape Fear River, bold speckled, solid offwhite
or baby blue eggs crack with the dawn of a new morning. The
beak of an unborn chick taps from the inside of its shell until it finally
perforates a peephole and the light of day is illuminated.
“He’ll be out soon,” says Walker Golder, deputy director of Audubon North
Carolina.
“Today is his birthday.”
Story by Jenny Yarborough
Photography by Allison Breiner Potter
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WBM july 2011