Important Notices
| COVID-19 & the VBWT: Be Safe While OutdoorsDWR encourages you to be safe while outdoors. Before heading out, first check with individual sites on the Virginia Bird & Wildlife Trail for any COVID-19 policies or closures. This information is typically posted on a site's own website. Remember to maintain CDC social distancing guidelines while enjoying the outdoors. |
Sites On This Loop
- CSY01: Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
- CSY02: Pleasure House Point Natural Area
- CSY03: First Landing State Park
- CSY04: Cape Henry Lighthouse at Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story
- CSY05: Great Neck Park
- CSY06: Beach Garden Park
- CSY07: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
- CSY08: Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
- CSY09: False Cape State Park
- CSY10: Little Island Park
- CSY11: Princess Anne Wildlife Management Area
- CSY12: Munden Point Park
- CSY13: Stumpy Lake Natural Area
- CSY14: Norfolk Botanical Garden
Description
From its scenic seashores to its cypress swamps, the Virginia Beach and Norfolk area offers a multitude of year-round birding and wildlife viewing adventures. The unique shape of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, just north of Virginia Beach, funnels migratory songbirds, raptors, and monarch butterflies down through the area each fall as they journey south down the Atlantic Flyway. Winter wetlands fill with a wide diversity of waterfowl that overwinter in the area’s mild climate, while whales, seals, and arctic-breeding seabirds can be spotted offshore. In spring, neo-tropical songbirds and flocks of shorebirds stop over in the area’s rich habitats as they migrate back north along the Atlantic Flyway. During summer, the outdoors abound with northeastern and southeastern breeding birds, bald eagles and osprey, swarms of butterflies and dragonflies, frogs and turtles, and dolphins swimming along the coastal waters. Several companies in the area cater to wildlife lovers by offering whale watching excursions, pelagic birding trips, and other nature adventures. The Virginia Beach Department of Convention and Visitor Development will be happy to assist interested visitors in contacting these businesses. The area also has accommodations to fit every budget, cuisines that run the gamut, and all of the amenities a visitor could want, making the area a year-round destination.
Loop Map
Services
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce-VA Beach
757.664.2570
iagricol@hrccva.com
Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce
757.622.2312
Jhornbec@hrccva.com
Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau
800.368.3097
adifilippo@norfolkcvb.com
Virginia Beach Dept. of Convention & Visitor Development
800.700.7702
jrickett@vbgov.com