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Orvis UK - Orvis Conservation Efforts -- Orvis teams with Nature Conservancy to restore Roseate Terns to Muskeget ... (612 words) |
 | Although Muskeget historically has been home to large colonies of Roseate and Common Terns, it was usurped over the course of the twentieth century by the more aggressive sea gull. |
| The nineteenth-century fashion for feathered hats and the lack of restrictions on commercial hunting and egg gathering reduced the tern population to the extent that it was easy for the gulls to move in. |
| Muskeget is an ideal area for nesting, because few mammals live there and human disturbance is also infrequent. |
| USS Muskeget (1431 words) |
| On 11 September 1942, the MONOMOY reported she was unable to effect relief of the MUSKEGET due to failure to establish communications. |
| Sadly, the families of all of the crewmen on board Muskeget received such a telegram from the Navy Department, followed by a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, indicating that their loved one was missing in action. |
| It was probably this attack that caused the destruction of Muskeget and the loss of her entire crew. |
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