Ed Horning in front of the second Museum, c.1997. Photo by Ethan Kibbe. Edwin Horning’s Extensive Bird Data to be Uploaded to eBird by John Sepenoski My involvement in the Ed Horning Journals Project can be traced back to the Town of Southold appointing me as the Town’s representative to an Audubon
Fishers Island is one of the last remaining places where Eelgrass (Zostera marina) thrives in New York waters. Once found in every harbor, creek and cove on the East Coast, this critically important species is now only found in cool, clear and often wave-swept waters like those
Edwin H. Horning Edwin H. Horning, who passed away on August 28, 2008, first came to Fishers Island as a school teacher in 1951. He joined the Board of Trustees of the H.L. Ferguson Museum at its inception in 1960 and became the Museum's third curator
Great Horned Owls on the Rafferty osprey nest and the Red-tailed hawk nest on Island Pond (Oyster Pond), spring 2011. Photos by Pierce Rafferty, John Wilton and Hank Golet.
Great Gull Island has the largest nesting concentrations of Common Terns in the world (9,500 pairs) and the largest nesting concentration of endangered Roseate Terns in the western hemisphere (1,300 pairs). Some of these photos were taken during a Museum trip
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F.I. Sketchbook 2005
