Pungo Unit News Today

The festival takes place at six national wildlife refuges that together cover parts of six northeast North Carolina counties and is the annual fundraiser for the Coastal Wildlife Refuge Society.

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge may be "the Yellowstone of the East," according to Wendy Stanton, who manages the refuge teeming with wildlife that welcomes more than 30,000 visitors annually.

The wheat field was filled with the raucous clamor of tens of thousands of tundra swans.