Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94 - Daily news Update

Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94 - Daily news Update

Helen Hays, an 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’s largest nesting sites for common and roseate terns, died on Feb. 5 in Scarsdale, N.Y. She was 94. Her brother, James Hays, said the death, at a care facility, was from dementia. Terns, both …