Chronicle - MSBR: Monomoy Island, MA

DateJuly 9 1990

Can DescriptionsAircheck Chronicle Monday July 9 1990 MSBR: Massachusetts

AbstractMSBR Massachusetts, Monomoy Island; No traffic and no stores because no one lives on the island except the wildlife; 1944 is when the island became a controlled area; visitors are allowed under some conditions; Peter Mehegan talks about bird observations; Piling plovers are one of the birds mentioned; change is constant on the island, and the lighthouse location there is an example; courtship behavior and anything of birding activities is said to be best here; nesting terns and laughing gulls are somewhat in competition for space; no island, as it turns out, is actually an island; Whitewash Village was once located on the island but it washed away about 1866; powder holes are explained;

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