Watch Shackleford Ponies
On Shackleford Banks, the seashore's southern-most barrier island, you can see a herd of over 100 wild horses as they roam free on a ten-mile sliver of island paradise. The Shackleford pony averages ten to thirteen hands (measured from the ground to the horse's withers) and feeds on coarse marsh grass that thrives along the sound. These wild horses are descendants of domestic horses left on the island by the island's last human inhabitants in the 1890s.

Behold our Endangered Species
Cape Lookout National Seashore serves as sanctuary to many of our threatened and endangered species of wildlife. The seashore is the northernmost habitat for the Loggerhead Turtle, a marine turtle that lays its eggs on the shores of the Outer Banks. It is also the southernmost habitat for the piping plover. Other endangered species that frequent the Cape Lookout National Seashore include the roseate tern, peregrine falcon, and the bald eagle.