by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Feb 6, 2018 | Winter 2018
Beach Birds One of the rarest breeding birds in the Northeast finds the beaches of Rhode Island particularly appealing in summer—not for swimming and sunbathing, of course, but for nesting and feeding. Piping plovers, sparrow-sized pale shorebirds classified as...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Nov 23, 2015 | Fall 2015
Book Review: The Devil’s Cormorant The cormorant’s reputation is, if nothing else, complicated. They are revered in Japan, where fishermen have used the birds under imperial protection for hundreds of years. They are reviled in Henderson Harbor, N.Y., where...
