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New York Times Features the Birds of Gull Island
Famed ornithogogist Helen Hays talks to the NTY about a little isolated island several miles to the east of Orient Point.
Helen Hays is a lifelong expert in ornithology and lives on Gull Island — as she has for six months a year since 1969. Hays hopes to improve nesting conditions and increase the populations of nesting common and roseate terns. Great gull has the largest populations of these birds found in the Western Hemisphere.
The New York Times wrote about Hays' latest visit to the island — read up here on a legendary advocate of birds.
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