{"id":826550,"date":"2026-08-26T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826550\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:06:10","slug":"news-12-long-island-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826550\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Not something you see every day on Long Island \u2013 a rare mink may have recently made an appearance in Suffolk County.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Local naturalist and native Long Islander, Peter Janow, tells News 12 he captured images of an American mink on a trail camera earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Janow, founder of the environmental nonprofit, Long Island Nature Corps, says he spotted the primarily nocturnal animal just after midnight on Aug. 4 in Northport.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The possible sighting \u201chighlights the importance of preserving habitat, improving wildlife connectivity, and taking simple steps to preventing roadkill, a major problem for wildlife on LI and specifically the area where this mink was spotted,\u201d Janow said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This apparent mink, a small, semi-aquatic meat-eating mammal, looked to be carrying a bird in its mouth.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York State DEC\u2019s Long Island office gets a couple of mink sighting reports a year. However, they say those reports do not usually come with enough information to be verified.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Janow also contacted the DEC to try to confirm what he believes is the first time this particular animal has been seen in our area in 31 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not something you see every day on Long Island \u2013 a rare mink may have recently made an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-826550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}