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Bird Species Observed on Fishers Island in 2019

By |2020-05-30T00:36:54-04:00December 30th, 2019|Museum News|

This list of migratory and year-round bird species was compiled from data provided by our island bird watchers, led by Ken Edwards, and from seasonal bird counts conducted by the Fishers Island Conservancy and the Audubon Society.

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Nature Notes: Birds, Plants & Fish of Fort H.G. Wright

By |2020-04-14T19:22:14-04:00May 23rd, 2017|Nature Notes, Newsletter 2017|

Excerpted from: Birds, Plants & Fish of Fort H.G. Wright by the late Edwin Horning [1998]. Silver Eel Cove: Island climate; plants, animals, and folks around the docks Docks on Silver Eel Cove with Pump House in background, circa 2001. “Silver Eel Cove” (where the Fishers Island ferries dock) was a pond before

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Increasing and Decreasing Birds

By |2020-05-21T13:35:07-04:00May 28th, 2016|Nature Notes, Newsletter 2016|

Nature Notes Excerpted from “Rocks, Plants, Birds and People of Fishers Island” [1999] by the late Edwin Horning Eastern Screech Owl Birds No Longer Nesting or Decreasing Barn Owl: This owl once nested in the old ice house on the shore of Middle Farm Pond. The last time that it nested there was

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Edwin Horning’s Extensive Bird Data to be Uploaded to eBird

By |2020-05-29T12:47:20-04:00May 24th, 2015|Natural History, Newsletter, Newsletter 2015|

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

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“Tagged” Osprey Update ~ Spring 2015

By |2020-05-29T12:50:02-04:00May 24th, 2015|Newsletter, Newsletter 2015|

by Beth Jepsen Charlie’s trip south to Colombia last fall (right) and his looped return north (left). Charlie Tracking Charlie spent his winter around lakes in the northwestern Bolivar region of Colombia. On March 18 he began his migration north by heading south to Cordoba, Colombia, before turning west and then northwest up

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The Incredible Egg

By |2020-05-29T12:50:30-04:00June 16th, 2014|Newsletter, Newsletter 2014|

Rob Bierregaard Rob Bierregaard, Research Associate of the A cademy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, returned to Fishers Island in late April at the invitation of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum. Rob’s goal was to “tag” a second male osprey on Fishers Island with a cell tower transmitter, having

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Fishers Island’s Second Osprey is Tagged: “Charlie” Joins “Edwin”

By |2020-05-21T13:42:51-04:00May 3rd, 2014|Charlie Blog, Museum News|

By Pierce Rafferty, Director Henry L. Ferguson Museum Rob Bierregaard, Research Associate of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, returned to Fishers Island on April 29th at the invitation of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum. Rob’s goal was to “tag” a second male osprey on Fishers Island with a cell tower

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Osprey Studies in the Age of Silicon

By |2020-05-21T13:35:42-04:00May 30th, 2013|Newsletter, Newsletter 2013|

Birds are quite literally both marvelous and wonderful. We marvel, with no small dose of envy, at their ability to fly, and we wonder, among many other things, what happens to so many of them in the winter. For millennia, the mysteries of migration—Where do birds go? How do they find their way to

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ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2023

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F.I. Sketchbook 2005

THE SKETCHBOOKS OF CHARLIE FERGUSON

In the full sweep of Fishers Island’s history, there is no artist more synonymous, more closely associated with Fishers Island than Charles B. “Charlie” Ferguson. The main show features images from two of Charlie's sketchbooks which functioned as illustrated diaries that were filled with daily activities, nature observations, personal notes, and lots of art—drawings, sketches, and watercolors—in various states of completion.

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