What  is a 17 acre island separating Long Island and Block Island sounds, that has A ground-dwelling coastal beach grass herbivore endemic of the Meadow Vole ?
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Gull Island vole The Gull Island vole ("Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus") is a subspecies of the Meadow Vole last collected in 1897. A ground-dwelling coastal beach grass herbivore endemic to Great Gull Island, New York, it disappeared after habitat destruction for naval fortifications in August 1898 for the Spanish–American War. Also, feral cats were also partly responsible in its decline. It is known from fifteen specimens in Washington, D.C.
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Great Gull Island Great Gull Island is a 17 acre island separating Long Island and Block Island sounds, located approximately 0.4 mi southwest of Little Gull Island. Both islands are located in Suffolk County, New York, and lie roughly midway between Plum Island and Fishers Island.
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Columbia Island (New York) Columbia Island (formerly Little Pea Island), is an island in Long Island Sound and part of New Rochelle, New York. It is situated off the south-eastern coast of Davids' Island, immediately adjacent to Pea Island. The island varies in size from about one acre to 175 square feet depending on the tide.
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Montague Island (Alaska) Montague Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, United States. The island has a land area of 790.88 km² (305.36 sq mi), making it the 26th largest island in the United States. As of the 2000 census, Montague did not have a permanent resident population, making it at that time the largest uninhabited island in the United States. Since then, the 2010 abandonment of the Coast Guard station on Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands, which at 344.7 square miles is larger than Montague Island, causes Attu to claim that title. Montague Island is well known among sport fishing out of the Seward port as it is referred to as 'The Land of the Giants'. In 2007 it produced a 350 lb halibut and many boats full of fish over 100 lbs. Montague Island was named by Captain James Cook in honor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, one of his greatest supporters.
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Zostera muelleri Zostera muelleri is a southern hemisphere temperate species of seagrass native to the seacoasts of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. and New Zealand. Today, "Zostera muelleri" can be found in regions of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea, as well as areas of the eastern Indian ocean, and the southwest and western central Pacific ocean. "Zostera muelleri" is a marine angiosperm, and is commonly referred to as eelgrass or garweed. It is a fast growing and readily colonizing species that serves as a feeding ground for wading birds and aquatic animals, and a breeding ground for juvenile fish and shrimp species.
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Bay Island (California) Bay Island is a small island located halfway down Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. It is the only island in the Newport Beach harbor islands that does not allow car traffic. The island is accessible via a small bridge that will only accommodate golf carts. The island has 23 residences, a botanical garden, courtyard garden, tennis court, and several private beaches.
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Ischaemum nativitatis Ischaemum nativitatis, commonly known as the Christmas Island duck-beak, is a tropical grass in the Poaceae family. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. The specific epithet comes from the Latin "nativitas" ("birth") referring to the birth of Christ, or Christmas, after the name of the island.
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Limnanthes vinculans Limnanthes vinculans, the Sebastopol meadowfoam, is an endangered species of meadowfoam found only in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, United States and an area slightly to the south in the Americano Creek and Washoe Creek watersheds. The name "vinculans" derives from the Latin root vinculum, meaning "a bond, a cord." The specific epithet "vinculans" means linking or bonding, in reference to the sharing of some characters of "L. vinculans" with "L. douglasii" (R.Br) and "L. bakeri" (J.T. Howell).
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Fire Island National Seashore Fire Island National Seashore (FINS) is a United States National Seashore that protects a 26 mi section of Fire Island, an approximately 30 mi long barrier island separated from Long Island by the Great South Bay. The island is part of New York State's Suffolk County.
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Singing vole The singing vole ("Microtus miurus"), is a medium-sized vole found in northwestern North America, including Alaska and northwestern Canada.
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Long Island (Washington) Long Island is an uninhabited island lying in the southern part of Willapa Bay in Pacific County, Washington, United States. It is the site of the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, part of the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System. The island has a land area of 21.666 km2 .
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Little Gull Island Little Gull Island is a small island in Long Island Sound, located approximately 0.4 mi northeast of Great Gull Island. Both islands are located in the Town of Southold, in Suffolk County, New York, and lie roughly midway between Plum Island and Fishers Island. Little Gull Island is approximately 4.6 mi southwest of Fishers Island and the channel of water between them is the main entrance to Long Island Sound, known as "The Race".
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Jones Beach Island Jones Beach Island is one of the outer barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It is named for Major Thomas Jones, who first came to Long Island in 1692, where he proceeded to build the island's first brick house near Massapequa. Jones built a whaling station on Jones Island near the present site of Jones Beach State Park in 1700. Jones Beach Island is sometimes referred to as Oak Beach Island and is the former home of the infamous Oak Beach Inn.
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New Creek (Staten Island) The New Creek watershed encompasses 2220 acre on the East Shore of Staten Island, New York. The creek is fed by many natural springs in the area, which were used by the Lenape Indians before the arrival of European colonists in the Seventeenth Century. Many of the springs have been channeled underground by urban development as the population expanded throughout New York City. The watershed consists of marshland which supports a variety of flora and fauna. Spartina grass flourished in a tidal wetland before the restoration of the shore and beach area and the development of a shoreline urban park by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in the 1960s, blocking tidal flow to the area.
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Zempoaltépec vole The Zempoaltépec vole ("Microtus umbrosus") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The name "Microtus" is from the Greek word "mikros" meaning small and "otus" meaning ear. The name "umbrosus" could be from the Latin "umbros" meaning shady. It is rather large and has a long tail when compared with other voles. Its pelage is long and soft. In the upper parts, the hair is uniformly dusky with brown tips and the lower parts a dark grey thinly washed with a reddish yellow color. It is found only in Mexico, in a semi-isolated mountain range southeast of the Cajones River in Mixes district, in Oaxaca.
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Poʻouli The poʻ o-uli ("Melamprosops phaeosoma"), or black-faced honeycreeper, is a species of passerine bird that is endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi. It is considered to be a member of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, and is the only member of its genus Melamprosops. It has a black head, brown upper parts and pale grey underparts. This bird is only known from the drier, easternmost side of Maui, and has decreased in numbers so that now only a few individuals, if any, remain. With extinction threatening, efforts have been made to capture birds to enable them to breed in captivity. This has been largely unsuccessful, and in 2004, only two known birds remained, and since then, no further birds have been sighted.
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Leach's single leaf bat Leach's single leaf bat ("Monophyllus redmani"), also known as Greater Antillean long-tongued bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. It forms large colonies, with up to a few hundred thousand individuals, and feeds on a relatively wide variety of food items including pollen, nectar, fruit and insects.
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Marmot Island Marmot Island is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago in the Gulf of Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of Kodiak Island Borough and lies east of Afognak Island. The island has a land area of 45.196 km² (17.45 sq mi) and is unpopulated.
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Hawaiian hoary bat The Hawaiian hoary bat or ʻ ōpeʻ apeʻ a ("Lasiurus cinereus semotus") is an endangered subspecies of the hoary bat (family Vespertilionidae) that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian hoary bat is one of two species of mammal that are endemic to the islands, the other being the Hawaiian monk seal. It is a federally listed endangered taxon of the United States.
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Camano Island Camano Island is a large island in the Possession Sound portion of Puget Sound, located in Island County, Washington, between Whidbey Island and the mainland. The body of water separating Whidbey Island and Camano Island is called Saratoga Passage. Camano Island is separated from mainland Snohomish County by Davis Slough near the city of Stanwood. The island is reached via State Route 532 over the Camano Gateway Bridge in the northeast of the island.
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Maschaug Pond Maschaug Pond is a coastal lagoon in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Located at , it is one of nine such lagoons (often referred to as "salt ponds") in southern Rhode Island. A "small, brackish pond", it is not permanently connected to the Block Island Sound, and is largely bordered by a golf course. Nests of the piping plover, which has been federally designated as a threatened species, have been documented within the watershed.
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Yellow Island Yellow Island, one of the San Juan Islands, is an 11 acre island, located south-west of Orcas Island, and north of Shaw Island, near Jones Island State Park, in San Juan County, Washington, United States. The island is home to a wide array of flora and fauna, including over 50 species of wildflowers, bald eagles, harbor seals, black oystercatchers, and harlequin ducks. The island was purchased in 1979 by The Nature Conservancy, and is administered as a nature preserve.