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BIRDING AND NATURE ENTHUSIASTS WILL FLOCK TO GEORGIA COAST – Jekyll Island, Georgia

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Georgia’s Colonial Coast Bird & Nature FestivalJekyll Island, Ga. –Wildlife enthusiasts are expected to flock again to Georgia’s Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival held on Jekyll Island October 12-14, 2007. The fifth annual festival offers a variety of entertainment and educational activities including a keynote speech by Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology Director, Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s rediscovery; Saturday’s FREE Nature Day event for families and youth; plus seminars and field trips highlighting coastal Georgia’s abundant natural beauty and wildlife. The Jekyll Island Convention Center will serve as the hub for festival activities, and field trip excursions will include many of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division’s (DNR/WRD) Colonial Coast Birding Trail sites.
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Folklore, Rumor & Myth – Jekyll Island, Georgia

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Enter the twilight zone in the Old Landmark District on Jekyll Island during the month of October. Once you enter one of the cottages and listen to a bone-chilling stories from the past, if you dare.
This tour is available on Friday nights only, from October 5-26, 2007 at 7:00 pm.  Departs from the Jekyll Island Museum on Stable Road.  Reservations are requested.Daily Passport to the Century tours are also available.

For more information contact The Jekyll Island Museum, 100 Stable Road 912.635.4036

Oyster Reef Restoration Project – Jekyll Island, Georgia

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Here is your chance to help make a difference. U.G.A. Marine Extension’s G.E.O.R.G.I.A. program (Generating Enhanced Oyster Reefs in Georgia’s Inshore Areas) is looking for volunteers to assist in bagging oyster shell for the oyster reef restoration project. We have future plans to restore oyster populations in Beach Creek as part of a bioremediation project on Jekyll Island. September 8, 8-10 a.m.

for more informtion call E. Ashby Nix at 912.264.7323
or visit the UGA website: www.shellfish.uga.edu/oysterrest.html