August 10 – 11, 2018
This year’s competition will be part of a Waterfowl Weekend and held in conjunction with Wisconsin State Duck and Goose Calling Championships at the same location. Please note, for those of you that participated in our First Annual Decoy Carving Contest, there have been some changes in categories and entrant classes for the 2018 contest.
NEW FOR 2018! IWCA DECORATIVE LIFESIZE - NON-FLOATING (LIMITED TO WATERFOWL)
This is a new division for 2018. The Decorative class is painted with extra detail and precision. All entries in this division must be made of wood; full body decoys are allowed. They should have life-like attitude. Feet and legs must be hand carved or constructed by the carver in open level only. This division includes all duck categories (puddle, diving, sea) along with geese and swans, confidence and shorebirds and wading birds. These decoys will be judged on the shelf. Again, this division will have two carver levels, Open and Amateur. Ribbons will be awarded per IWCA rules. Cash award will be given for Best of Show in each carver class. Please carefully review the rules in Appendix-C.
The following IWCA Decorative Lifesize - Non-floating categories shall be recognized at the 2018 WWA Carving Competition:
3.2.1. Puddle or Marsh Duck—Includes all species of mallard, black duck, pintail, widgeon, gadwall, teal, wood duck, and shoveler.
3.2.2. Diving Ducks—Includes all species of canvasback, redhead, scaup, ringneck, golden-eye, bufflehead, ruddy duck (summer or winter), and hooded merganser.
3.2.3. Sea Ducks—Includes all species of smew, long-tailed duck , scoter, eider, harlequin, red-breasted merganser, and common merganser.
3.2.4. Geese and Swans—Includes all species of geese, including brant and swans.
3.2.5. Confidence—Includes all species of gulls, loons (summer or winter), coots, gallinules, and all others.
3.2.7. Shorebirds and Wading Birds (Decorative and Decoy)—Avocets, cranes, curlews, dowitchers, dunlins, flamingos, godwits, herons, ibises, knots, limpkins, oystercatchers, plovers, rails, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, storks, turnstones, whimbrels, willets, yellowlegs.
There will be no divisions for raptors, songbirds or minatures judged at the 2018 competition
Entries may be checked in on Friday, August 10th.
Judging is on Saturday, August 11th.
Entries may be checked out after 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 12th.
Hope to see you there!
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 9:07AM 
The 2019 East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival Competition Brochure, Entry Form, and Exhibitors Application Form are now available for download on their IWCA Affiliate Show page...
