{"id":5510,"date":"2025-02-11T21:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/helen-hays-who-helped-bring-terns-back-to-long-island-sound-dies-at-94\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:59:43","slug":"helen-hays-who-helped-bring-terns-back-to-long-island-sound-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/helen-hays-who-helped-bring-terns-back-to-long-island-sound-dies-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Helen Hays, an<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to Great Gull Island, a postage-stamp islet in Long Island Sound, where they endured dive-bombing birds and fierce ocean storms to help revitalize it as one of the world\u2019s largest nesting sites for common and roseate terns, died on Feb. 5 in Scarsdale, N.Y. She was 94.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her brother, James Hays, said the death, at a care facility, was from dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Terns, both the common and roseate variety, are compact seabirds sometimes confused with gulls. They are also Olympic-level migrators: After nesting in secluded places like Great Gull Island, they travel as far as Argentina for the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays was quite the migrator herself. Every spring she would leave her Manhattan apartment for Great Gull, a narrow, 17-acre slip of land that had been a U.S. Army fort until the end of World War II, when the military gave it to the American Museum of Natural History for $1. It lies just east of the tip of Long Island\u2019s North Shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As chairwoman of the museum\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/greatgullisland.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Great Gull Island Project<\/a>, she would set up camp among the concrete bunkers left over from the fort, welcoming the first of several dozen volunteers, mostly high school and college students, who would arrive for stints on the island over the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There is no running water or reliable electricity on Great Gull Island; supplies arrive on a weekly mail boat. Should storms hit \u2014 and they often do \u2014 the researchers simply rode out the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The birds themselves could be a hazard. Aside from their ubiquitous droppings \u2014 on the ground, on handrails, falling like rain from overhead \u2014 terns are terribly territorial, constantly pecking at the human interlopers. Ms. Hays took the occasional nip in stride; others wore straw hats with fake flowers stuck in the brims, to give the terns something other than a head to attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays ran the Great Gull Island Project with precision. Every morning at 6, she would rouse her volunteers over a loudspeaker, shouting things like: \u201cNo more napping. Time for trapping!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They would work sunup to sundown, every day, sometimes braving the birds to collect samples or tag newborns, other times crouching for hours in one of the island\u2019s 31 blinds, wooden structures designed to let them observe the birds up close.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Not surprisingly, most volunteers lasted just a few weeks. Ms. Hays, who began her annual trips in 1969, spent a full five months there, every single year, only stopping when Covid stopped everything in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Terns had long made Great Gull Island a temporary home. But after hatmakers and fashion mavens of the early 20th century killed them by the millions for their feathers nationwide, the common tern was considered a threatened species and the roseate tern endangered by the time Ms. Hays first began her work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thanks in large part to her diligence in making the island once again a welcome site for nesting, the number of mating pairs rebounded, going from about 3,000 in 1969 to more than 11,000 in the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays\u2019s work was not just for the good of the birds. Early on, her constant, close observation allowed her to track birth defects in tern chicks; further research led her to conclude that PCBs, a then-unsuspected class of chemicals, was the cause \u2014 making her among the first scientists to warn of their danger to animals and humans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe was tireless,\u201d Joseph DiCostanzo, an ornithologist at the Museum of Natural History and a frequent volunteer on Great Gull, said in a phone interview. \u201cI can remember being on the island and watching her run circles around students who were a third her age.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Helen Hays was born on Jan. 22, 1931, in Johnstown, N.Y., an industrial town northwest of Albany. Johnstown specialized in leather goods, and her father, David, ran a glove factory; her mother, Helen (Stewart) Hays, wrote books about the region\u2019s culture and history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Helen found herself drawn to the idea of biological field work from an early age, and built her academic career around it. She studied biology at Wellesley College, and after graduating in 1953, she cast about for graduate programs that would get her directly into field work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Soon she was in Manitoba, studying the ruddy duck at a field station run by Cornell University. She was working toward a master&#8217;s degree, but left before graduating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays had been working in an office at the Museum of Natural History for a few years when she learned of discussions about what to do with Great Gull Island. When she heard that at least one museum donor was interested in supporting field research on terns, she jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays never married and had no children. Her brother is her only immediate survivor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Hays was herself a volunteer at the museum; though it gave her office space, she raised all her funding herself. Perhaps her greatest skill was persuading so many people to work for her without pay on a near-barren island in the middle of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under her command, the Great Gull Island Project became a tight-knit community; marriages came out of relationships borne among the terns, and at least one parent who volunteered as a student later sent her own son to volunteer with Ms. Hays decades later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe inspired people,\u201d said Joel L. 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