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Visiting Outer Banks, North Carolina: Beaches & Wild Horses

Bolded by nature and brimming with history, North Carolina’s Outer Banks is a coastal paradise like no other. With wild Spanish mustangs roaming free, sun-soaked beaches stretching for miles, and ...
Yahoo

Outer Banks officials announce foal season along NC coast, warning visitors to keep distance from wild horses

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Officials at the Outer Banks are reminding North Carolina beach visitors that it’s foal season for the wild horses along the coast. Two photos of recently born horses at ...
WAFB

Impaired driver hits and kills wild horse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, deputies say

OUTER BANKS, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) - North Carolina authorities say a young stallion was hit and killed just after midnight on Saturday. According to the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office, the horse ...
The Island Packet

Wild horse killed by vehicle driving in dark on Outer Banks beach, NC cops say

Alex was a 5-year-old stallion and the last of his genetic line on the Outer Banks, officials say. “Alex’s genetics can never be replaced, and in a critically endangered population that is a ...
The Virginian-Pilot

The story of Outer Banks wild horses has survived 500 years. Their future is not guaranteed.

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...