Group for East End Pres Finds Tropical Bird After Irene

Perhaps it's only fitting that the president of one of the most well-known environmental groups on the East End (if not the most well-known) found a bird on the beach that made a rare, almost impossible, trip to the North Fork recently.

Bob DeLuca, president of Group for the East End, reportedly found a dead white-tailed tropicbird — a bird known to nest as far north as Bermuda — on an East Marion beach following Tropical Storm Irene.

DeLuca told The News-Review that seeing the bird while walking with his family on the beach, they wrapped it in his wife's sweatshirt and put the bird on ice to preserve it. It is currently in the possession of the Natural Museum of American History in New York City.

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