13. Site Significance Summary: " " 



(1) Battery Island is significant for its well known wading bird 

 rookery, and is the largest such heronry in North Carolina 

 (Parnell, J. F. & R. F. Soots, Jr. 1979. Atlas of colonial 

 waterbirds of North Carolina estuaries, UNC Sea Grant Publ. 

 UNC-SG-78-IO, Raleigh, N. C.) (see summary Table 2 for breeding 

 bird data) , 



1^, N. C, Natural Heritage Program Priority Rating 

 High priority. 



