Atlantic Flyway

Good sources of water, food, and cover exist over its entire length.

[4] Ducks and geese are born in the tundra of Quebec, and fly south in autumn to Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's famous Back Bay, and the James River, and then move southward through North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida for the winter.

Northeast and northwest Florida get a great number of teal and divers as the winter progresses.

In South Carolina there was Georgetown's and Charleston's old rice fields, and backcountry marshes and freshwater rivers and lakes that continued to draw ducks in great numbers until the Santee National Wildlife Refuge stopped feeding the ducks in the winter months of the 1980s due to the economy and changes in National Wildlife Refuge policy across the nation.

[5] Along the Atlantic Flyway, there are many key sites that migratory birds use to gather to breed, feed, or rest for certain periods.