Window strikes kill up to a billion birds annually and rank up there with cats and habitat destruction as the leading causes of recent steep declines. After the recent death of a much-watched Eurasian eagle-owl that was set loose from the Central Park Zoo, a bill calling for bird-friendly building measures has been revived in the New York Assembly and Senate.

Fearing an underwater land rush, the Sag Harbor Village Board voted unanimously to limit the number of moorings allowed in the outermost area of its jurisdiction.

Michele L’Hommedieu Hofmann had no idea until retiring last fall and starting to research her family history how prominent a role her great-great-grandfather James H. L’Hommedieu had played in Long Island’s late-19th-century architecture. On a trip to New York that included a stop at an East Hampton house he designed for Robert Southgate Bowne, a founder of the Maidstone Club and first president of the Long Island Rail Road, she and her family got a crash course in L’Hommedieu’s work.

Jennifer Close Mulligan, who was active in the L.V.I.S. and the East Hampton Library, died on March 2 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 76.