03.21.2024 Community Volunteers prep Mattituck beach for osprey season About thirty community volunteers gathered on Breakwater Beach in Mattituck, Saturday, March 16 for an event celebrating the spring return of the osprey — a fish-eating raptor that breeds...
11.05.2023 Environment North Fork bald eagles, population rebuild leads to common sightings With a degree in marine biology from LIU/Southampton, Chris Paparo is the manager of Stony Brook University’s Marine Sciences Center. He is an award-winning member of the Outdoor Writers...
01.30.2023 Environment East End osprey population continues to thrive, report shows Marina DeLuca grew up in East Marion and considers ospreys a “staple” of her upbringing. She has witnessed the increase in the number of ospreys that are now seen...
11.02.2021 Environment New study finds osprey population is ‘thriving’ on the East End The sight of ospreys soaring overhead, returning to their nests and plunging into local waters to pluck out a fish are such a sure sign of spring on the...
07.21.2020 Multimedia Rescued: Osprey caught on power line at Hashamomuck Pond helped to safety At about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Carolyn Wells saw the adult osprey. The raptor was hanging helplessly from a power line over Hashamomuck Pond 50 feet north of the Long...
05.14.2020 News Rehabilitated osprey named Piper set free in Greenport Piper has returned home. The rehabilitated osprey was set free Thursday afternoon after undergoing a rare procedure at a New Jersey bird rehabilitation facility to have new flying feathers...
06.14.2017 Community Winery owner helps save injured osprey A tale of an injured osprey and a once-in-a-lifetime selfie are a reminder to North Fork residents of what to do when you see injured wildlife. Sarah Nappa was...
05.28.2017 Environment North Fork Animal Welfare League rescues Osprey in Cutchogue When North Fork Animal Welfare League executive director Gillian Wood Pultz received a report Monday about an osprey floundering in the middle of Wickham Creek in Cutchogue, her initial...
04.28.2017 Environment North Fork osprey, Gracie, lays first egg of 2017: See the video Perched high on a nest overlooking Peconic Bay in East Marion, Gracie — a North Fork osprey — laid her first egg of the year Friday morning.
10.17.2015 Environment End of the road for ‘North Fork Bob’ in Central Florida North Fork Bob, an osprey that has migrated thousands of miles from Venezuela to the North Fork multiple times while being tracked by ornithologist Rob Bierregaard, died this week in...