Researchers say there are fewer than 8,000 breeding pairs of piping plovers left in the world, so even the success of a handful of the birds on East Hampton beaches really matters.

Thea Giovannini-Torelli, hearing a sound like rustling paper, walked out of her bedroom and found a fish, covered in a thin layer of soot flopping on her living room floor near her fireplace. She took it as a sign. By @cgangemi.bsky.social

Birding in the Time of AI "Now, anyone can stand in the woods, hold out their damned phone, and say, “Uh, yeah, that’s a black-throated blue warbler,” or whatever, stealing my single parlor trick. Worse, every time that happens, a tech bro somewhere gets a new Tesla."

One hundred years later, the ur-developer Carl Fisher’s influence on Montauk, now immense in the popular imagination, remains profound.

Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" (out in October!), wrote an op ed for @easthamptonstar.bsky.social about protecting horseshoe crabs. Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

The protagonist in Adam Ross's addictive second novel, drops a bomb right off the bat: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me.

Home insurance rates in the Northeast soar as losses mount and some industry players leave the market entirely. www.easthamptonstar.com/villages/202...

A bill to help make Plum Island, N.Y. a national monument got through the House Natural Resources Committee, paving the way for a congressional vote. #longislandsound

The "world's strongest barista" may work at the Bridgehampton Starbuck's/ www.easthamptonstar.com/sports/20241...

The first issue of The East Hampton Star, Dec. 26, 1885