Delaware America the Beautiful Quarter

The Delaware America the Beautiful Quarter will be released in the year 2015 as the twenty-ninth overall release of the new series featuring National Parks and National Sites of America. Delaware is the home state of Rep. Michael Castle, who introduced the legislation authorizing the new series of quarters.

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge will be featured on the Delaware Quarter. This is one of two National Wildlife Refuges which will be featured during the entire series. These sites are under the management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Delaware was the first coin of the previous 50 State Quarters series, which was very popular and collected by millions of Americans. This time around, Delaware cedes this honor to Arkansas, which features the earliest federally designated site chosen for the series.

About Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

When the weather starts to get cooler, and the planet turns toward winter in the northern hemisphere, people typically comment on the fact that birds are flying south for the winter. But how many times have you stopped to think about where those birds actually stay and rest during their trip to the southern climates for the winter? Established by the federal government in the summer of 1937, the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware is one of the places that have been set aside as a resting and breeding ground for the many types of birds that pass over it during their yearly migrations.

The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is unique in that it’s almost sixteen thousand miles of protected areas that comprise one of the largest tracts of untouched tidal salt marsh in the entire mid-Atlantic region. The terrain of the Refuge is very flat, as you might expect from marsh land that is at most only ten feet above sea level. While this might not make for the most exciting hiking, it is perfect for the birds that are looking for a quiet place to rest and feed while they are on their long journeys.

One of the biggest problems that have resulted from beach front property development during the last few decades is that this valuable salt marsh habitats is being destroyed and birds and finding themselves without their familiar surroundings to breed. The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is part of a huge chain of similar refuges that extend from the shores of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico