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December Indoor Meeting – Helen Hays – Gull Island
December 13, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Great Gull Island lies at the eastern end of Long Island Sound. The former site of an army fort, its overgrown battlements are now defended by the largest concentration of nesting Common Terns in the world (9,500 pairs). The boulders dumped around the edge of the island to stabilize the shoreline, as well as some of the retaining walls of the fort, offer nesting sites for 1,300 pairs of Roseate Terns, the largest nesting concentration of this endangered species in the Western Hemisphere. Join Helen Hays, Director of the Gull Island Project, who will discuss highlights from her 50 years managing the Project.