In colonial times Shooters Island was used as a hunting preserve.
Shooters Island began to support nesting wading birds, cormorants and gulls in the early 1970s.
The history of Shooters Island has always revolved around birds and wood.
The plan for Shooters Island is likely to win the necessary financing, several city and Federal officials said, because it is consistent with that new goal.
The birds slowly returned to Shooters Island, and by the mid-1990's there were dozens of nests of night herons and great egrets.
Shooters Island (in Newark Bay; part of it belongs to New Jersey)
Shooters Island is my favorite.
Shooters Island is a sanctuary for long-legged wading birds that has been threatened recently by a series of oil spills.
Shooters Island, in the Kill van Kull, is also shared with New York.
Shooters Island came into view.