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NEW YORK HARBOR HERONS: UPDATE
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  • Length

    06:00 mins

  • Education Subject Areas

    General Science

    Life Science

    Science as Inquiry

  • Year Produced

    1990

  • Reference Number

    90A36

  • Title

    NEW YORK HARBOR HERONS: UPDATE

NEW YORK HARBOR HERONS: UPDATE

Graceful, long-necked herons choose an unlikely locale for their breeding colonies, an island amidst the smokestacks and garbage dumps of New York Harbor. National Geographic returns to visit the harbor, this time to study a disaster: an Exxon oil pipeline spill. What repercussions will the spill have on the region's ecology?

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