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Atlantic Marine Conservation Society Responds to Dead Dolphin
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
A female common dolphin washed up on the beach in Quogue, in distress, and ultimately died. Volunteers with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society came to pick up the dolphin, with the help of Quogue Village workers, who assisted with a forklift. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death. CAILIN RILEY
Slightly before 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, October 21, Quogue Village Police received a call of a dolphin in distress on the beach just slightly west of the drive-on entrance at Quogue Village Beach.
Police responded, along with personnel from the Southampton Town Marine Bureau, to investigate, but when they arrived, the dolphin was dead.
The female common dolphin did not show any obvious signs of physical injury.
Later in the day, volunteers from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, a nonprofit based in Hampton Bays with a mission to “promote marine conservation through action,” responded to investigate the dolphin’s death.
The society, led by Chief Scientist Robert A. DiGiovanni Jr., works with staff and volunteers to conduct health assessments on marine animals like dolphins, whales, sea turtles and seals, responds to reports of stranding, performs necropsies on dolphins, whales and other large marine mammals, and does a wide range of data collection in the marine environment.
DiGiovanni and his fellow staff members who responded to the beach on Tuesday were assisted in removing the female dolphin by members of the Quogue Village Department of Public Works, who were at Quogue Village Beach doing work. They used their forklift to assist in getting the dolphin off the beach.
The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society performs necropsies on deceased dolphins and other marine mammals that wash up on area beaches to determine the cause of death. The society also works closely with members of the Shinnecock Nation, with tribal members often performing blessings of the animals before they are buried.
For more information about the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, visit amseas.org.
Cailin Riley on Oct 22, 2025